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!