At 6:32 PM +0930 9/22/06, Tim wrote: > Supplemental information after doing a long self test > (i.e. smartctl -t long /dev/hda): > > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error > # 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 30% 990 23953101 This is expected as long as there are uncorrected bad blocks. You need to write to them somehow in order to fix them. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>