On Sat, 14 May 2022 at 12:21, ghe2001 <ghe2...@pm.me> wrote: > Supermicro workstation, Debian Buster, smartctl v 6.6 > > I bought a new 12TB Western Digital Gold SATA disk the other day. > After testing it, smartctl says, among other things: > > 22 Unknown_Attribute 0x0023 001 001 025 Pre-fail Always > FAILING_NOW 13 > > And it looks like the test is aborted when smartctl sees that error. [...] > Is there a way to to get smartctl to finish the test? If so, how do I do > that?
Hi, you could try the more recent version of smartmontools (7.2-1~bpo10+1) that is available in the buster-backports repository. Version 6.6 was released 2017-November-05. Version 7.2 was released 2020-December-30.
