Curses, I was really hoping to leverage that feature since a three and a half hour long test is not ideal [below test started at 5:22AM]: Ubences-MacBook-Pro:ata uquevedo$ smartctl -t long /dev/disk2 smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [Darwin 17.6.0 x86_64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-17, 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 206 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Tue Jun 26 08:52:02 2018 Use smartctl -X to abort test. There’s no way that will complete under my system’s sleep schedule [three hour timeout for sleep] which isn’t ideal anyways. With the selected span range, I think I can just tell it to do the next range after it is done with one so it’ll take far less time to successfully get through a part of the drive and then continue on to the next whenever that might be. I’m assuming I’d have to convince Apple that this would be a feature worth exposing in their software to have this be made available? -Ubence > On Jun 25, 2018, at 8:18 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> wrote: > > While I'm not absolutely certain, looking at one of the OS headers > > /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Frameworks/IOKit.framework/Versions/A/Headers/storage/ata/ATASMARTLib.h > I don't think macOS supports any immediate offline tests other than short and > long (in particular, not selective ranges), so I think smartmontools on macOS > is simply recognizing that - it runs on a lot of platforms, and not all of > them necessarily support every feature. macOS AFAIK doesn't support SMART at > all on USB or Firewire; and at least one other OS doesn't seem to fully > support SMART for ATA, for example. > >> On Jun 25, 2018, at 21:40, Ubence Quevedo <that...@gmail.com >> <mailto:that...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> 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 >> <mailto: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 >>> <mailto: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 >>> <http://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 >>>> <mailto: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 >>>> <mailto: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 >>>> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/smartmontools>> >>>> >>>> - Josh >>> >> >
