On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 05:47, VJ wrote: > Hi, > I tried looking for this in man page but could not fifure out how to do > that. The drive is capable of offline surface scan as reported by > 'smartctl -c'. Does anybody know how to do this? It's just either: smartctl -t long /dev/hda or smartctl -t short /dev/hda There's a nice article in Linux Journal, Jan 2004: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6983