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 > <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
