Thanks for pointing this out. I’m disappointed this feature seems to be
disabled in macOS. Looks like I’ll have to ask the smartmontools
developers why this was left out of macOS.
-Ubence
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:16 AM Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net>
wrote:
> Looks to me like the code purposely and intentionally disallows that on a
> Mac. No idea why - maybe the OS won't do it or doesn't like it.
>
> In os_darwin.cpp:
> 483 case ATA_SMART_IMMEDIATE_OFFLINE:
> 484 select = in.in_regs.lba_low;
> 485 if (select != SHORT_SELF_TEST && select != EXTEND_SELF_TEST)
> 486 {
> 487 errno = EINVAL;
> 488 return set_err(ENOSYS, "Unsupported SMART self-test mode");
> 489 }
> 490 err = smartIf->SMARTExecuteOffLineImmediate (ifp,
> 491 select == EXTEND_SELF_TEST);
> 492 break;
>
> In other words, on a Mac, I think only -t long and -t short would work,
> not any other -t options.
>
>
> On Jun 25, 2018, at 09:13, Ubence Quevedo (thatrat) <that...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I tried compiling the latest snapshot of smartmontools, and the problem is
> still occurring:
> Ubences-MacBook-Pro:smartmontools-6.7 uquevedo$ ./smartctl -t select,0-10
> /dev/disk0
> smartctl 6.7 2018-06-21 r4735 [Darwin 17.6.0 x86_64] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
> www.smartmontools.org
>
> === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===
> Sending command: "Execute SMART Selective self-test routine immediately in
> off-line mode".
> SPAN STARTING_LBA ENDING_LBA
> 0 0 10
> Command "Execute SMART Selective self-test routine immediately in off-line
> mode" failed: Unsupported SMART self-test mode
>
> This seems more a problem for smartmontools…? Might this be a problem
> similar to not being able to scan external drives for smart information in
> macOS?
>
> I’m still curious if anyone has gotten the selective span scan to work in
> macOS...?
>
> -Ubence
>
> On Jun 24, 2018, at 3:35 PM, Ubence Quevedo <that...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for pointing this out, but the selective scan range for smartctl
> has never worked in previous versions available through macports from the
> last few years, I’m just now finally posting something about this. I had
> worked around this by setting the sleep timeout on my Mac to a much longer
> timeout [three hours] so the whole drive [1TB] could be scanned on a long
> test. From what I understand of the selective scan range, the range will
> be scanned, and when the next scan occurs, it’s scan the next range.
>
> I’d really love for this feature to work so I don’t have to keep my system
> online all the time for scanning.
>
> Any suggestions on how to look into this further?Perhaps build
> smartmontools from source and test? Has anyone gotten the selective range
> to work for scanning from installing smartmontools from macports?
>
> -Ubence
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:15 PM Joshua Root <j...@macports.org> wrote:
>
>> Ubence Quevedo wrote:
>> > However, when I boot the same system off of Ubuntu 18.04 Live USB with
>> the
>> > same version of smartmontools [6.6], this command works properly:
>>
>> Just a note that Ubuntu does not actually have the same version as
>> MacPorts. As your output shows:
>>
>> MacPorts:
>> > smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [Darwin 17.6.0 x86_64] (local build)
>>
>> Ubuntu:
>> > smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-20-generic] (local
>> build)
>>
>> MacPorts has the 6.6 release, corresponding to svn r4594. Ubuntu has an
>> svn snapshot from sometime after 6.5 but before 6.6, r4324. This is
>> confirmed by the listed Ubuntu package version:
>>
>> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/smartmontools>
>>
>> - Josh
>>
>
>
>
