> 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 I was able to run this command and the output is attached. Does anything there point to a disk HW failure? I still think that I'm just suffering from file system corruption. > You can run a long test with > smartctl -d ata -t long /dev/sda I just started this now, and it told me to wait for 70 minutes for the test to complete. How do I check its results? BTW, I was able to mount the LVM partition and copy some critical files (see my next email). After I did that I first tried to run the long test and got a kernel panic. But that was after getting a bunch of errors when accessing the drive. Alfred -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smartctl.out.gz Type: application/x-gzip Size: 2440 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060802/d310d492/attachment-0005.bin> -------------- next part --------------