smartd self test never completes (Seagate 7200.12 ST31000528AS CC34)

[Nifty Fedora Mitch]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 06:08:44AM -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> 
> 
> I just got a Seagate 7200.12 ST31000528AS with CC34 firmware and I
> noticed that the smart self-tests never complete.  24 hours after
.....
> 	
> The "aborted by host" was me stopping the tests after the one or two
> minute tests ran for > 10 minutes.  The extended offline was in several
> of the cases the computer being rebooted after over 24 hours of the test
> running.
> 
> Anyone else have one of these yet?  Did you figure out how to get the
> test to run?
> 

Run the factory Seagate tests on the drive once.
This test is fully inside the disk so visit the Seagate
site for more info.

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