> > That is Pre-fail and Old_age. Is it just old age? :-) > 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.. Bob -- Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. -- Friedrich Nietzsche