On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 09:54:32 +1300
Volker Kuhlmann
In fact, both disks passed the 'smartctl -a' test
That's not a test, that's querying the disk's status.
Thanks. I was confused by the output, which said:- "SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED" But presumably this is reported because of some previous test
Run smartctl -s on -o on -S on once per disk. This enables smart and the disk's offline selftests. Any bad sectors found here show up as offline_uncorrectable. There was an excellent discusion on this on the smartmontool-users list over the last days. Thanks. I'll join the list. Run the short and long tests, -t short and -t long, waiting for each to finish. Then run smartctl -a and check for errors.
Both tests completed without error. Perhaps it's not a disk error but a controller or driver error (??) Would that show up in these tests? Thanks for your help. - Richard -- Richard Kimber http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/