<div><div dir="auto">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.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">-Ubence</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 7:16 AM Richard L. Hamilton <<a href="mailto:rlhamil@smart.net">rlhamil@smart.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">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.<div><br></div><div>In os_darwin.cpp:</div><div><div>483 case ATA_SMART_IMMEDIATE_OFFLINE:</div><div>484 select = in.in_regs.lba_low;</div><div>485 if (select != SHORT_SELF_TEST && select != EXTEND_SELF_TEST)</div><div>486 {</div><div>487 errno = EINVAL;</div><div>488 return set_err(ENOSYS, "Unsupported SMART self-test mode");</div><div>489 }</div><div>490 err = smartIf->SMARTExecuteOffLineImmediate (ifp,</div><div>491 select == EXTEND_SELF_TEST);</div><div>492 break;</div><div><br></div><div>In other words, on a Mac, I think only -t long and -t short would work, not any other -t options.</div></div></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 25, 2018, at 09:13, Ubence Quevedo (thatrat) <<a href="mailto:thatrat@gmail.com" target="_blank">thatrat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-3210421903062250601Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Hi All,<div><br></div><div>I tried compiling the latest snapshot of smartmontools, and the problem is still occurring:</div><div><div><font face="Menlo">Ubences-MacBook-Pro:smartmontools-6.7 uquevedo$ ./smartctl -t select,0-10 /dev/disk0</font></div><div><font face="Menlo">smartctl 6.7 2018-06-21 r4735 [Darwin 17.6.0 x86_64] (local build)</font></div><div><font face="Menlo">Copyright (C) 2002-18, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, <a href="http://www.smartmontools.org/" target="_blank">www.smartmontools.org</a></font></div><div><font face="Menlo"><br></font></div><div><font face="Menlo">=== START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION ===</font></div><div><font face="Menlo">Sending command: "Execute SMART Selective self-test routine immediately in off-line mode".</font></div><div><font face="Menlo">SPAN STARTING_LBA ENDING_LBA</font></div><div><font face="Menlo"> 0 0 10</font></div><div><font face="Menlo">Command "Execute SMART Selective self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" failed: Unsupported SMART self-test mode</font></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>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?</div><div><br></div><div>I’m still curious if anyone has gotten the selective span scan to work in macOS...?</div><div><br></div><div>-Ubence</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 24, 2018, at 3:35 PM, Ubence Quevedo <<a href="mailto:thatrat@gmail.com" target="_blank">thatrat@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-3210421903062250601Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">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. </span><br></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">I’d really love for this feature to work so I don’t have to keep my system online all the time for scanning.</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">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?</span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px"><br></span></div><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family:UICTFontTextStyleBody;font-size:17px">-Ubence</span></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 3:15 PM Joshua Root <<a href="mailto:jmr@macports.org" target="_blank">jmr@macports.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Ubence Quevedo wrote:<br>
> However, when I boot the same system off of Ubuntu 18.04 Live USB with the<br>
> same version of smartmontools [6.6], this command works properly:<br>
<br>
Just a note that Ubuntu does not actually have the same version as<br>
MacPorts. As your output shows:<br>
<br>
MacPorts:<br>
> smartctl 6.6 2017-11-05 r4594 [Darwin 17.6.0 x86_64] (local build)<br>
<br>
Ubuntu:<br>
> smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-20-generic] (local build)<br>
<br>
MacPorts has the 6.6 release, corresponding to svn r4594. Ubuntu has an<br>
svn snapshot from sometime after 6.5 but before 6.6, r4324. This is<br>
confirmed by the listed Ubuntu package version:<br>
<br>
<<a href="https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/smartmontools" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/smartmontools</a>><br>
<br>
- Josh<br>
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