On Wednesday 07 November 2007 15:34, Sunny wrote: > ... > > Randall, > try smartctl -t long /dev/sda > > This will start a complete test of the drive (it may take hours). > After the test is finished (you can check from time to time with > smartctl -l selftest). The last command will display the persentage > of the test finished, or the test results. Note that it shows the > results for the last 21 tests.
Would that it were so. The output from "smartctl -l /dev/sda" hasn't changed since I initiated the test, which was now about than 3:45 hours ago: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- % smartctl -t long /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === 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 72 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Wed Nov 7 17:35:44 2007 -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Immediately thereafter, I did this: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- % smartctl -l selftest /dev/sda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === 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 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 4762 261202 -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- The output hasn't changed since then: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- % date Wed Nov 7 19:57:50 PST 2007 % smartctl version 5.37 [i686-suse-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === 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 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 4762 261202 -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- If SMART itself doesn't work, how can I trust the diagnostics it produces? Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
