[smartmontools-support] Aborted by host

[Tudor H. <tu...@sm...>]

Hi all,

Rookie question.  What does "Aborted by host" actually mean?

Or, to put it another way, isn't the drive in charge of the self-test?

Or maybe even, who is the the host, the machine or the drive?

I have one brand new WDC WD20EFRX which, when asked to selftest short, 
complete ok, but when asked to long test, stops immediately with 
"Aborted by host".

Data follows.  I'm using the latest smartmontools in Ubuntu 12.04 precise.

Cheers,
Tudor.

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdc
smartctl 5.41 2011-06-09 r3365 [i686-linux-3.2.0-23-generic-pae] (local 
build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model:     WDC WD20EFRX-68AX9N0
Serial Number:    WD-WMC300282739
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 003724b50
Firmware Version: 80.00A80
User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes [2.00 TB]
Sector Sizes:     512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical
Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is:   9
ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is:    Wed Nov 14 01:03:53 2012 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

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00)    Offline data collection activity
                     was never started.
                     Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      ( 248)    Self-test routine in progress...
                     80% of test remaining.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection:         (26400) 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:      (   2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time:      ( 255) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time:      (   5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:            (0x70bd)    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     0x002f   200   200   051 Pre-fail  
Always       -       0
   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   177   175   021 Pre-fail  
Always       -       4150
   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000 Old_age   
Always       -       10
   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140 Pre-fail  
Always       -       0
   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000 Old_age   
Always       -       0
   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000 Old_age   
Always       -       214
  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   253   000 Old_age   
Always       -       0
  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000 Old_age   
Always       -       0
  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000 Old_age   
Always       -       10
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000 Old_age   
Always       -       8
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000 Old_age   
Always       -       1
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   108   106   000 Old_age   
Always       -       39
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000 Old_age   
Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000 Old_age   
Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000 Old_age   
Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000 Old_age   
Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   100   253   000 Old_age   
Offline      -       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    Aborted by host 90%       213         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error 00%       213         -
# 3  Extended offline    Aborted by host 90%       213         -
# 4  Extended offline    Aborted by host 50%       213         -

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.