Hi all, As part of upgrading, I'm testing my hard drives... On one I have the following in the report from smartctl: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE [...] 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 001 001 005 Pre-fail Always FAILING_NOW 25 and ATA Error Count: 14 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) [...] Error 14 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 11871 hours (494 days + 15 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 01 01 00 00 00 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x00000001 = 1 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 61 08 01 01 00 00 a0 ff 00:26:42.700 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 08 10 37 94 50 40 ff 00:26:42.700 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 08 58 17 4d 10 40 08 00:26:42.700 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 10 50 e7 4c 10 40 08 00:26:42.700 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED 61 08 48 c7 4c 10 40 08 00:26:42.700 WRITE FPDMA QUEUED Do these mean the drive is going to fail completely very soon? Is there a way I can extend its life? These drives are going to be used in hobby machines for 'playing' with - ones which will have no important data on them and which will likely get regular re-installing. To some extent, learning to monitor the state of a dodgy drive would definitely fit with playing ... Cheers Dylan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org