# smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.1-11 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ATA Maxtor 6Y080M0 Version: YAR5 Serial number: Y2JFD3VE Device type: disk Local Time is: Thu Sep 29 22:36:33 2005 SGT Device does not support SMART [bad value in scsi command] SMART Sense: Ok! No Error counter log to report Warning: device does not support Self Test Logging ----end of output ---- [root@blazin root]# fsck /dev/sda3 fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) e2fsck 1.32 (09-Nov-2002) /dev/sda3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while reading block 522 /dev/sda3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read reading journal superblock fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while checking ext3 journal for /dev/sda3 [root@blazin root]# badblocks /dev/sda3 2088 2089 2090 2091 27543032 27543033 27543034 27543035