Robert Boehm wrote:
> Hi Ioannis:
> 
> Yes....the disk is completely healthy....Troy and I were wrong
> about that...so we are back to the mystery, however I remember
> someone else replying about a similar thing and mentioning
> that it didn't matter...but your tests are good....I wish I could
> say the same about the hard drive I'm working off of right now,
> which is "PASSING" the test but SMART is telling me there are
> marginal data in pre-failure mode...and that I already have 3 unreadable
> sectors!!!  But...alas..this is a test computer and when I get my new
> hard drive for my "mainframe"...I'm taking the old 40GIG thing from that
> and putting it here!
> 
> If your system is running well...I wouldn't worry too much about it!
> 
> Thanks for the data...


OK, thanks. I am not sure these lines are all OK though (but the end summary is PASSED).


SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_ FAILED 
RAW_VALUE
   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000b   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -        0
   3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007   113   101   021    Pre-fail  Always       -        1683
   4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   099   099   040    Old_age   Always       -        1891
   5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -        0
   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000b   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -        0
   9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   092   092   000    Old_age   Always       -        5906
  10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -        0
  11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0013   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -        0
  12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -        1872
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   103   010   000    Old_age   Always       -        40
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -        0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -        0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0012   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -        0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x000a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -        142
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0009   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Offline      -        0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged



That is Pre-fail and Old_age. Is it just old age? :-)