The drive does say Enabled Supported: SMART feature set Security Mode feature set * Power Management feature set * Write cache * Look-ahead ... so doesn't look like SMART is enabled on the drive. Does the problem go away if you do a smartctl -s on /dev/sda first? :) -- -erik http://useofwords.blogspot.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html