Robert Boehm wrote:
> No...those lines tell about WHICH TYPE of failure it's looking for...some
> are just old age type failures...and others...and these are important...are
> PRE-FAILURE modes...in otherwords...if you had unreadable sectors
> and stuff like that...like I have.  What's nice about Scientific Linux is
> that the smart.config file is written to e-mail you on the system mail
> if it finds one of these errors...
> 
> On your tests, the key is that there were no errors...period.  THAT is
> a very significant thing, especially with the "long" test...which is
> very thorough....some of the actual data lines are hard to interpret,
> so you have to look them up..but all of your lines look WELL within
> normal values....what's happening on the boot process and getting logged
> is something different...I just don't know what it is..


OK, thank you very much Robert for the thorough information!

And thanks to all for the great insight on SL matters!