2016-09-01 11:55 GMT+03:00 Frank Steinmetzger <[email protected]>:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 11:44:19AM +0300, gevisz wrote:
>
>> > Some people do a full systems check (i.e. badblocks) before entrusting a
>> > drive with anything important.
>>
>> It is a good advice! I have already thought of this but I am sorry to
>> acknowledge that, since the "old good times" of MS DOS 6.22, I never did
>> this in Linux. :(
>> […]
>> So, can you, please, advice me about the program or utility that can do
>> badblocks check for me?
>
> Badblocks is part of e2fsprogs. But since you’re using USB2, this will
> really take a while. At best I get 39 MB/s out of it. Another way is a
> S.M.A.R.T. test, methinks `smartctl -t full` is the command for that. But I
> don’t know what exactly is being tested there. But it runs fully internal of
> the disk, so no USB2-bottleneck. Others may chime in if I tell fairy tales.
So far, the hard drive passed two (small) smart tests started by commands:
# smartctl -c -t short -d sat /dev/sdc
and
# smartctl -t conveyance -d sat /dev/sdc
as is indicated by
# smartctl -l selftest -d sat /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
However, after running
# smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sdc
I have no indication that it has been passed:
# smartctl -t long -d sat /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately
in off-line mode".
Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in
off-line mode" successful.
Testing has begun.
Please wait 571 minutes for test to complete.
Test will complete after Fri Sep 2 04:02:18 2016
Use smartctl -X to abort test.
Fri Sep 2 6:10
# smartctl -l selftest -d sat /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
Read Device Identity failed: scsi error device will be ready soon
A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or
more '-T permissive' options.
# smartctl -a -d sat /dev/sdc
smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [x86_64-linux-4.4.6-gentoo] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: WDC WD50EZRZ-00GZ5B1
Serial Number: <snipped>
LU WWN Device Id: <snipped>
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity: 5,000,981,078,016 bytes [5.00 TB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 5700 rpm
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b
SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
Local Time is: Fri Sep 2 06:12:50 2016 EEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test
routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (57180) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 571) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x3035) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE
UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail
Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 198 198 021 Pre-fail
Always - 9083
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 7
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 1
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 7
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 1
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 10
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 105 000 Old_age
Always - 28
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 0 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
