Hi, I noticed this in my log and wondered what others may think.
Oct 21 20:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 Oct 21 22:26:32 smoker smartd[5381]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 251 to 250 <snip> Nov 19 02:51:51 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 246 to 247 Nov 19 03:21:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 247 to 248 Nov 19 03:21:51 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hdd, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 252 to 251 Nov 19 03:51:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 248 to 250 Nov 19 04:51:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 250 to 249 Nov 19 05:21:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 249 to 251 Nov 19 05:51:50 smoker smartd[1050]: Device: /dev/hda, SMART Prefailure Attribute: 8 Seek_Time_Performance changed from 251 to 252 Here is a little more info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # smartctl -A /dev/hda smartctl version 5.37 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === 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 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 224 224 063 Pre-fail Always - 10931 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 191 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 253 253 063 Pre-fail Always - 0 6 Read_Channel_Margin 0x0001 253 253 100 Pre-fail Offline - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0027 252 239 187 Pre-fail Always - 41049 9 Power_On_Minutes 0x0032 181 181 000 Old_age Always - 101h+59m 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 157 Pre-fail Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x002b 253 252 223 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 212 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 253 253 000 Old_age Always - 35 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 5031 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0008 199 199 000 Old_age Offline - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate 0x000a 253 251 000 Old_age Always - 42 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x000b 253 252 180 Pre-fail Always - 2 204 Shock_Count_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 205 Shock_Rate_Write_Opern 0x000a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 207 Spin_High_Current 0x002a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 208 Spin_Buzz 0x002a 253 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 209 Offline_Seek_Performnce 0x0024 196 190 000 Old_age Offline - 0 99 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 100 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 101 Unknown_Attribute 0x0004 253 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # Do I need to be checking pricewatch and Newegg for a new hard drive? If you need more info just let me know. This thing runs 24/7 since I run folding. Thanks in advance for the advice. Dale :-) :-) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list