I notice that the following attributes may reflect a problem. 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 38654719904
188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 12885098499 The SER, in hex, is 0x0009000037a0, which is indicating that the drive has encountered 0x0009 errors in 0x000037A0 seeks, ie an error rate of 1 in 1582. AFAIK, an SER of 1 per million is considered normal. The SMART threshold of 30 equates to about 1 error in 1000. According to ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.#Known_ATA_S.M.A.R.T._attributes ... attribute 188 represents Command Timeouts. The figure of 12885098499 is equal to 0x000300030003, which I suspect means that your drive has recorded 3 command timeouts. -Franc ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Smartmontools-database mailing list Smartmontools-database@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/smartmontools-database