id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,priority,milestone,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc 1591,-H returns an error for an otherwise healthy drive,Artem S. Tashkinov,,"I've got two HDDs with the same issue: {{{ smartctl -H /dev/sdb smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-175-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Please note the following marginal Attributes: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 036 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 33 (255 255 33 28 0) }}} Exit code is **32** despite ""SMART overall-health self-assessment **test result: PASSED**"". There's nothing else which is wrong with the drives so the question is, how I can use `-H` and ignore this particular attribute while **not** ignoring any real failures? Here's the complete output: {{{ smartctl 6.6 2016-05-31 r4324 [x86_64-linux-4.15.0-175-generic] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-16, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Constellation ES.3 Device Model: ST2000NM0033-9ZM175 Serial Number: [redacted] LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 0642fa65b Firmware Version: SN07 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB] Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2 (minor revision not indicated) SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Tue Apr 12 10:33:44 2022 UTC 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 See vendor-specific Attribute list for marginal Attributes. 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: ( 248) Self-test routine in progress... 80% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 592) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. 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: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 248) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x50bd) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 081 063 044 Pre-fail Always - 158005897 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 094 094 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 20 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 010 Pre-fail Always - 22 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 092 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1749915271 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 059 059 000 Old_age Always - 36027 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 18 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 036 045 Old_age Always In_the_past 33 (255 255 33 28 0) 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 15 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1534 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 064 000 Old_age Always - 33 (0 26 0 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 024 013 000 Old_age Always - 158005897 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 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 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 35972 - }}}",defect,closed,minor,,smartctl,,invalid,ata,