smart(8) Call for Testing

[Chuck Tuffli]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 2:22 AM, Stefan Esser <se at freebsd.org> wrote:
...
> not sure, whether this is a problem, but I get a surprising result for my 6GB
> WD-Red SATA drives:
...
> 208 5 197 2 0 0 0
> 208 1 10 0 0 0 0
>
> The last two rows re-use attribute IDs seen before, are out of order and do
> not report the values I'd expect. These rows are missing from the smartctl -a
> output:

Best I can tell, smartctl won't print an attribute if:
 - the ID == 0
 - user requests only currently failed with the pre-fail flag set
 - user requests only failed with/without the pre-fail flag set

The ID isn't zero, so perhaps, it's one of the other conditions. Off
list, can you send me the output from smartctl -a?

> BTW: an option to print fixed width columns with headings or CSV format
> with header line (or e.g. JSON) might be useful.
>
> And: While the first three columns are documented, the -t output is not.

Noted. Thanks!

--chuck