On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Alfred von Campe 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 > > 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? You an use the smartctl "-l" option to view the results: $ smartctl -l selftest /dev/hda - Ryan -- UNIX Administrator http://prefetch.net