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Minor clean-up

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Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen <smartmontools-support@lists.sourceforge.net>
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
......@@ -515,8 +515,9 @@ ATA/ATAPI\-5 disks seem to respect their meaning, so we have retained
the option of printing the Attribute values.
.TP
.B \-l TYPE, \-\-log=TYPE
Prints either the SMART error log or the SMART self\-test log. The
valid arguments to this option are:
Prints either the SMART Error Log, the SMART Self\-Test Log, the SMART
Selective Self-Test Log [ATA only], or the Log Directory [ATA only].
The valid arguments to this option are:
.I error
\- prints only the SMART error log. SMART disks maintain a log of the
......@@ -611,22 +612,6 @@ printed in hexadecimal notation. On Linux systems the smartmontools
web page has instructions about how to convert this LBA address to the
name of the disk file containing the erroneous block.
.I selective [ATA]
\- Some ATA\-7 disks (example: Maxtor) also maintain a selective
self\-test log. Please see the \'\-t select\' option below for a
description of selective self\-tests. The selective self\-test log
shows the start/end Logical Block Addresses (LBA) of each of the five
test spans, and their current test status. If the span is being
tested or the remainder of the disk is being read\-scanned, the
current 65536\-sector block of LBAs being tested is also displayed.
The selective self\-test log also shows if a read\-scan of the
remainder of the disk will be carried out after the selective
self\-test has completed (see \'\-t afterselect\' option) and the time
delay before restarting this read\-scan if it is interrupted (see
\'\-t pending\' option). This is a new smartmontools feature; please
report unusual or incorrect behavior to the smartmontools\-support
mailing list.
.I selftest [SCSI]
\- the self\-test log for a SCSI device has a slightly different format
than for an ATA device. For each of the most recent twenty
......@@ -649,6 +634,22 @@ Additional Sense Code Qualifier (ASQ) are also printed. The self tests
can be run using the \'\-t\' option described below (using the ATA
test terminology).
.I selective [ATA]
\- Some ATA\-7 disks (example: Maxtor) also maintain a selective
self\-test log. Please see the \'\-t select\' option below for a
description of selective self\-tests. The selective self\-test log
shows the start/end Logical Block Addresses (LBA) of each of the five
test spans, and their current test status. If the span is being
tested or the remainder of the disk is being read\-scanned, the
current 65536\-sector block of LBAs being tested is also displayed.
The selective self\-test log also shows if a read\-scan of the
remainder of the disk will be carried out after the selective
self\-test has completed (see \'\-t afterselect\' option) and the time
delay before restarting this read\-scan if it is interrupted (see
\'\-t pending\' option). This is a new smartmontools feature; please
report unusual or incorrect behavior to the smartmontools\-support
mailing list.
.I directory
\- if the device supports the General Purpose Logging feature set
(ATA\-6 and ATA\-7 only) then this prints the Log Directory (the log at
......@@ -1182,7 +1183,7 @@ these documents may be found in the References section of the
.SH
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