On Aug 2, 2006, at 14:49, Kay Diederichs wrote: > the CentOS smartctl _does_ work (for me at least) with SATA disks > if you use the "-d ata" option. So please try > smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sda > You can run a long test with > smartctl -d ata -t long /dev/sda Yes, cool, this works. Of course by now I have another drive in this system and already rebuilt CentOS on it. But I'll boot back in the CentOS LiveCD later on and probe the old drive. Thanks, Alfred