On 1/21/06, Ed Tomlinson <edt@xxxxxx> wrote: > grover:/var/log# smartctl -i -d ata /dev/sda [snip] > grover:/var/log# smartctl -H -d ata /dev/sda > smartctl version 5.34 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-5 Bruce Allen > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > --- > > Hope this helps and that I found the correct places to copy the info. How about: smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda or, if that produces too much output, then at least the following two: smartctl -A -d ata /dev/sda smartctl -l error -d ata /dev/sda That way we might be able to figure out whether the disk coincidentally started going bad after you updated the kernel. -- -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html