On Friday 17 February 2012, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > Num Test_Description Status Remaining > LifeTime(hours) LBA > _of_first_error > # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 2536 > - > # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2529 > - > > So I'm befuddled why it won't tell me anything about this pending > error. I've had a hard drive with *many* bad sectors, and still smartctl reported "Completed without error". I believe this means that there are still spare sectors available. I suggest "badblocks -n", as I said in another message. This may also detect more bad sectors. What does "5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct" say? -- Yves Bellefeuille <yan at storm.ca> "La Esperanta Civito ne rifuzas anticipe la kunlaboron de erarintoj, se ili konscias pri sia eraro." -- Heroldo Komunikas, n-ro 473.