2

So I have this older 1TB Toshiba hard drive (P/N MK1059GSM), and it won't finish a Smart Extended Self-Test... The drive seems to work fine in operation, and a short self-test completes normally, but after about 15 minutes of performing an extended self-test GSmartControl says the test aborted manually and the raw output says "Aborted by host". The drive is docked in a Thermaltake Black Widow USB/SATA dual disk dock connected via USB.

What would cause this to exit? It isn't failing the test, just aborting it as if someone pressed cancel... Is this something I should be concerned with?

Output of smartctl -a: http://pastebin.com/QeZ0XEvQ

acejavelin
  • 6,428
  • 5
  • 25
  • 37
  • If failing a self-test isn't a good sign. What exactly is your question? It failing would be caused by the drive being in a pre-fail state. – Ramhound Dec 21 '15 at 19:25
  • I would take it out of the enclosure and hook it up direct to a SATA bus and see if the problem persists. – Eddie Dunn Dec 21 '15 at 19:34
  • That is the thing, it isn't "failing"... I have seen drives fail the self-test, that is a very different result, it is stopping the test as if someone pressed CANCEL or ABORT, but that didn't occur. I will connect it directly to a SATA connection on the motherboard and try again, good idea. – acejavelin Dec 21 '15 at 19:36
  • It appears the USB docking station was the culprit, the test is now 30% complete connected to the SATA port of the motherboard directly, the best it could ever get to plugged into the dock was 10%. – acejavelin Dec 21 '15 at 21:13
  • The Extended Self-test completed successfully connected directly to the SATA bus... must have been something to do with the USB dock. – acejavelin Dec 21 '15 at 23:43

0 Answers0