Hello all, I can't use a second hard drive in the laptop. I do, however, have two in the home desktop - if one goes, then I still have the other. So far, only the WinXP drive has had to be replaced :) I've been looking at smartctl. I have a feeling it might work best in runlevel 3. I did try smartctl -a /dev/sda6 and got back a "no errors" report. I also tried smartctl --test=short /dev/sda6 but I didn't see any report afterwards. Looks like I have some more reading to do. Oh, well. At this point I'm definitely leaning towards a new drive and storing the current one. Perhaps to coincide with v11.0. Thanks again -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org