smartctl - Can't run select span range

[Ubence Quevedo]

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 <jmr at 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
>
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