Justin, Should I unmount the drive before doing the tests? Thanks, Sam
On 8/6/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Sam wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Justin, here is the output from smartctl -a /dev/hda > > > > smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce > Allen > > Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ > > Your disk looks OK to me, I have seen Device Status Error in the past as > well but never suffered any ill effects. > > Some other things to try: > > smartctl -t short /dev/hda # wait 5min > smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda > > smartctl -t long /dev/hda # wait 6-120 min > smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda > > and/then show smartctl -a output again > if all the tests pass, your disk should be OK > > > >
