smartctl -a /dev/hdb smartctl version 5.33 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Warning! Drive Identity Structure error: invalid SMART checksum. === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST320414A Serial Number: 3EC0SK7K Firmware Version: 3.28 User Capacity: 20,003,618,816 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 4 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Wed Feb 13 15:03:36 2008 EET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Disabled SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it. ------------------------------------------------------------- hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: 0xb0 hdb: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hdb: task_in_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdb: task_in_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } ide: failed opcode was: unknown ide0: reset: success