The long test completed without error. The conveyance test isn't supported on my drive, but I thought I'd try it and see what it reported. jtait@ferrari:~$ sudo smartctl -a -d ata -l selftest /dev/sda smartctl version 5.38 [x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Momentus 5400.2 series Device Model: ST9100823A Serial Number: 3LG0YVL4 Firmware Version: 3.01 User Capacity: 100,030,242,816 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 6 ATA Standard is: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2 Local Time is: Thu Aug 27 23:48:40 2009 BST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 426) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 111) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 056 054 034 Pre-fail Always - 104026345 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 096 095 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 093 093 020 Old_age Always - 7682 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 29 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 082 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 192173496 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 14105 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 097 097 020 Old_age Always - 3425 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 3425 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 645831 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 055 059 000 Old_age Always - 55 (0 12 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 053 000 Old_age Always - 104026345 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 14105 - # 2 Conveyance offline Fatal or unknown error 00% 14104 - # 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 14104 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 14004 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.