[smartmontools-support] Short test always fails, long test passes
Thane K. Sherrington
thane at computerconnectionltd.com
Fri Dec 8 14:48:27 CET 2017
Here's a strange one. I have a hard drive that fails every short read
test with a read error, but every long tests passes.
Any idea why, and should I be concerned?
I've included the output below:
smartctl 6.5 2016-05-07 r4318 [i686-w64-mingw32-win7(64)-sp1] (sf-6.5-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Hitachi/HGST Travelstar 7K750
Device Model: Hitachi HTS727550A9E364
Serial Number: J33L0083G1WMRA
LU WWN Device Id: 5 000cca 68bc0dc1d
Firmware Version: JF3OA200
User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes [500 GB]
Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 6
SATA Version is: SATA 2.6, 3.0 Gb/s
Local Time is: Fri Dec 08 09:45:53 2017 AST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity
was completed without error.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 115) The previous self-test
completed having
the read element of the test failed.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 45) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
No Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 116) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED
WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 062 Pre-fail
Always - 0
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 156 156 040 Pre-fail
Offline - 121
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 253 253 033 Pre-fail
Always - 2
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 095 095 000 Old_age
Always - 8484
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail
Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail
Always - 0
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 094 094 040 Pre-fail
Offline - 58
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 066 066 000 Old_age
Always - 15062
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail
Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age
Always - 4797
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 196624
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 095 095 000 Old_age
Always - 52817
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 181 181 000 Old_age
Always - 33 (Min/Max 8/47)
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 14
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age
Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age
Always - 0
223 Load_Retry_Count 0x000a 100 100 000 Old_age
Always - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining
LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 30% 15062 -
# 2 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 15062 -
# 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 15047 -
# 4 Short offline Completed: read failure 30% 15043 -
# 5 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 60% 15039 -
# 6 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 15020 -
# 7 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 15016 -
# 8 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 15005 -
# 9 Short offline Completed: read failure 30% 14999 -
#10 Short offline Aborted by host 50% 14999 -
#11 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 10730 -
#12 Extended offline Aborted by host 80% 10724 -
#13 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 80% 10724 -
#14 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 70% 10723 -
#15 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10723 -
#16 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10722 -
#17 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10722 -
#18 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10722 -
#19 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10722 -
#20 Extended offline Interrupted (host reset) 90% 10722 -
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10718 -
2 of 3 failed self-tests are outdated by newer successful extended
offline self-test # 2
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
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Thane K. Sherrington
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