On 3/29/07, Alfred von Campe <alfred at 110.net> wrote: > On Mar 29, 2007, at 7:22, Rasmus Back wrote: > > > Thanks for the pointer! The smart logs for my drives don't show any > > errors but I'll start a long selftest just to be sure. Although if it > > is a failing hard drive then the raid driver should kick it out of the > > array. Your system was a laptop with just one drive, right? > > It was actually a single SATA drive on a desktop system, but yes, it > was not in a RAID configuration. Are you running the selftest on > both drives? It would be interesting to see the results of that... Well this is interesting: smartctl -H /dev/sda returns "SMART Health Status: OK". But when I try to start a test with smartctl -t long /dev/sda I immediately get "Extended Background Self Test Failed". Apparently my drives don't work with smartctl since smartctl -l error /dev/sda returns: Error Counter logging not supported Error Events logging not supported I checked the BIOS and SMART reporting is turned on, although from the description of this option it sounds like this controls whether failures are reported during the BIOS boot-up. Rasmus