Opened 13 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
#169 closed defect (fixed)
smartctl man page outdated (SMART offline test ranges)
| Reported by: | koitsu2009 | Owned by: | Christian Franke |
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| Priority: | trivial | Milestone: | Release 5.41 |
| Component: | smartctl | Version: | 5.40 |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
The man page for smartctl(8) on version 5.40 states the following about smartctl -t vendor,XXX:
vendor,N - [ATA only] issues the ATA command SMART EXECUTE OFF-
LINE IMMEDIATE with subcommand N in LBA LOW register. The sub-
command is specified as a hex value in the range 0x00 to 0xff.
Subcommands 0x40-0x7f and 0x90-0xff are reserved for vendor spe-
cific use, see table 61 of T13/1699-D Revision 6a (ATA8-ACS).
This information has been deprecated per working draft of ATA-8 ACS, T13/2015-D Revision 3 (dated June 18, 2010), table 152, provides a more accurate portrait of what the current vendor and reserved SMART test ranges are for OFF-LINE IMMEDIATE:
00h = Execute SMART off-line routine immediately in off-line mode 01h = Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in off-line mode 02h = Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode 03h = Execute SMART Conveyance self-test routine immediately in off-line mode 04h = Execute SMART Selective self-test routine immediately in off-line mode 05h-3Fh = Reserved 40h-7Eh = Vendor specific 7Fh = Abort off-line mode self-test routine 80h = Reserved 81h = Execute SMART Short self-test routine immediately in captive mode 82h = Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in captive mode 83h = Execute SMART Conveyance self-test routine immediately in captive mode 84h = Execute SMART Selective self-test routine immediately in captive mode 85h-8Fh = Reserved 90h-FFh = Vendor specific
Let me know and I can come up with a patch for smartctl.8.in with this information.
Change History (3)
comment:1 by , 13 years ago
comment:2 by , 13 years ago
| Owner: | changed from to |
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| Status: | new → accepted |
No - this was not changed since ATA-7 (which only added Conveyance and Selective self-tests). The table above is identical to table 48 from ATA/ATAPI-7 Volume 1 rev 4b (April 2004). See our Links page.
There is actually a typo on the man page: "0x40-0x7f" should be "0x40-0x7e".
And it should probably be noted that it does not make sense to use values defined by the standard because this is already supported by "-t offline (0x00), -t short (0x01), ... -t select (0x04), -X (0x7f), -C -t short (0x81), ...".
Aforementioned T13 doc can be read here:
http://www.malkavian.com/~jdc/03_d2015r3-ATA-ACS-2.pdf