ridley

Thanks for the reply. I have attached my syslog. syslog.txt

OK I have run Pre Clear over a Seagate 1.5Tb Drive. How does this look? (BTW how long on average should this take to run this took 49Hrs!) ========================================================================1.13 == ST31500341AS 9VS1QKP6 == Disk /dev/sdh has been successfully precleared == with a starting sector of 63 ============================================================================ ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdh /tmp/smart_finish_sdh ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VA LUE Spin_Retry_Count = 100 100 97 near_thresh 0 End-to-End_Error = 100 100 99 near_thresh 0 High_Fly_Writes = 1 1 0 near_thresh 218 Airflow_Temperature_Cel = 65 66 45 In_the_past 35 Temperature_Celsius = 35 34 0 ok 35 Hardware_ECC_Recovered = 51 21 0 ok 152154 190 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 4 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 25 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, a change of 21 in the number of sectors re-allocated.