Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I recently added a Seagate 400Gb SATA drive to my system, and it has > been behaving strangely ... > What is a good program out there that exercises a disk to give some > assurance of errors or lack thereof? I would recommend downloading and running the manufacturer's standalone disk-checking program (in this case, SeaTools). I have seen both false and true SMART errors from BIOS.