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List:       smartmontools-support
Subject:    [smartmontools-support]Re: MFG test fails but SmartMonTools doesn't flag them as bad!
From:       Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu2 () apropo ! ro>
Date:       2004-10-20 17:16:35
Message-ID: 20041020201635.4fccc77d () it ! buh ! cameradicommercio ! ro
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On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 12:55:01 +0300
Sebastian Vuorinen <sebastian.vuorinen@helsinki.fi> wrote:

> On Tuesday 19 October 2004 17:08, Eric Praetzel wrote:
> 
> > Curiously this smartctl -a  dump was done after the drive failed the
> > PowerMax 4.09 test - BUT that test wasn't logged in the drive info!!
> >
> > Either way SmartMonTools is excellent - when I see bad sectors I run a
> > manual test but I wish that the fail had been revealed by manually running
> >
> > 	smartctl -t long /dev/hda
> 
> Perhaps there is some confusion about what this command does ?
> Smartctl doesn't run the test itself, instead it instructs the drive firmware
> to run its builtin selftest and then displays the result.
> 
> You saying that smartctl -t long failed but didn't log anything, sounds to me 
> like the drive firmware is not logging the results correctly.

You may be very true here, I saw this behavior on a WD JB on FreeBSD;
it only logged the failing test once out of 10.

-- 
IOnut
Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"





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