Launch SeaTools by following these steps once it is installed: Smartmontools may identify the LBA that caused the test failure.This post describes how to run SeaTools for Windows and provides some comprehensive advice about using the test to assist in troubleshooting. Instead you could use smartmontools (Linux) to examine the “SMART Self-Test Log (Log Address 06h)” (see page 416). Unfortunately SeaTools did not report a status value, so it’s hard to say why the error occurred. There is even a provision for detecting handling damage. The “Self-test execution status values” (page 280) would suggest that the electrical elements, read elements and servo are tested. So the short test scans small areas of the surface, while the extended test scans the full surface, among other things. … This self-test routine shall include the initial tests performed by the Extended self-test routine plus a selectable read scan. The SMART Selective self-test routine is an optional self-test routine. So, to answer your question, I don’t know exactly what is involved in each test. That is, each HDD manufacturer has its own way of doing things. ISTM that the definitions and internal implementations of these tests is vendor specific. Here are two proposals that were considered for inclusion in the standard: In fact I can find no reference to short/long generic tests in the ATA standard. Can someone help me understand what is going on?Īnswer:It’s hard to know what the drive is doing during its DST (Drive Self Test). Here is the log file note the failed tests on two different dates – they are on two different hard drives. This is why the Seatools log file got appended. Here’s the bizzarre part: both of these drives are showing up as the same S/N in Seatools – and not what is printed on the label on the hard drives. The replacement drive could be formatted by my Mac, but the Short Generic failed. The first one could not even be formatted (Seatools said cyclic redundancy check failed).

But having terrible luck with the quality of the drives being shipped. Question: I found Seagate Ironwolf 4TB drives on Amazon for $15 less than the WD Reds.

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