[smartmontools-support] Cheetah 36ES + Win32 + 5.39.1: Executing test fails (most of the time)

[Stephan G. <sgr...@ya...>]

I just installed smartmontools 5.39.1 on one of my 
machines which runs Win2k SP4 on a Seagate 
ST318406LW attached to a Symbios-based U2W HA, 
regular Adaptec ASPI drivers installed.

While reading SMART data works fine, attempting to 
execute any self tests fails more often than not:
| Long (extended) offline self test failed [unit
| attention reported, try again]

Occasionally it *does* work though.

By contrast, 5.38 always gets it right.

Any insight? I still remember that the drive was a 
bit fussy to begin with.

Console log is attached.

Stephan
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D:\Programme\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -t long scsi11
smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i686-pc-mingw32-2000-sp4] (sf-win32-5.39.1-1)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Long (extended) offline self test failed [unit attention reported, try again]

D:\Programme\smartmontools\bin>smartctl -t long scsi11
smartctl version 5.38 [i686-mingw32-2000-sp4] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

Extended Background Self Test has begun
Please wait 8 minutes for test to complete.
Estimated completion time: Fri Jun 04 03:26:01 2010

Use smartctl -X to abort test

D:\Programme\smartmontools\bin>
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