server:~ # smartctl -l selftest -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.30 Copyright (C) 2002-4 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: SEAGATE ST336607LW Version: DS09 Serial number: 3JAA0W44 Device type: disk Transport protocol: Parallel SCSI (SPI-4) Local Time is: Thu Apr 24 16:58:10 2008 GMT-3 Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Enabled SMART Health Status: OK Current Drive Temperature: 32 C Drive Trip Temperature: 68 C Vendor (Seagate) cache information Blocks sent to initiator = 3237502279 Blocks received from initiator = 1188903151 Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 755942898 Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 133845171 Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 116061 Vendor (Seagate) factory information number of hours powered up = 26458.90 number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 108 Error counter log: Errors Corrected Total Total Correction Gigabytes Total delay: [rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected minor | major rewrites] corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 26403173 0 0 26403173 26403173 15429.489 0 write: 0 0 0 0 0 720.414 0 Non-medium error count: 491 SMART Self-test log Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ] Description number (hours) # 1 Background short Self test in progress ... - NOW - [- - -] # 2 Background long Completed - 26458 - [- - -] # 3 Background long Completed - 5 - [- - -] # 4 Background short Completed - 4 - [- - -] Long (extended) Self Test duration: 768 seconds [12.8 minutes]