Re: [smartmontools-support]offline test doesn't do anything

[Bruce A. <ba...@gr...>]

> I think with the -U of smartd will do the trick), but what I noticed is
> that if I launch an offline test it seems to start but never ends, or at
> least it never show up in -l selftest.

Offline tests are NOT self tests.  They don't show up in the log.  Please 
read the smartctl man page description of '-t'.

Your drive is one of those that doesn't clear the pending sector counts.
You'll have to disable the smartd warnings with -U 0.

Cheers,
 	Bruce