On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Fajar Priyanto wrote: > Finally I temporarily migrate my mailserver to another box. It has been > experiencing troubles with the SATA discs (Maxtor and Western Digital). > > I then upgraded the kernel to the latest one: 2.6.9-34.ELsmp and now smartd > can run. > > When I do: smartcl -d ata -a /dev/sda, it says some errors but I don't know > what does it mean. > > This is the result: http://pastebin.com/624613 > The problems it encoutered were: time out on device. > Pls take a look at the pastebin for details. > > Is the drive still ok? > > Running smartcl on sdb gives no error. Disable DMA to see if that results in errors as well. But it seems sda has uncorrectable errors. Kind regards, -- dag wieers, dag@xxxxxxxxxx, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]