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Ah I see. Thanks for the explanation. That scenario didn't occur to me

Silly question...but doesn't diff show me all of the changes so that if it isn't included in the diff it wouldn't have changed or failed?

Just for my education. Am I looking for the same things in the full report here or something else? Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Device Model: ST31500341AS Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Serial Number: 9VS07SZG Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Firmware Version: SD1B Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: User Capacity: 1,500,301,910,016 bytes Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ATA Version is: 8 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Local Time is: Sun Feb 14 05:26:19 2010 GMT+5 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART support is: Enabled Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: General SMART Values: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Offline data collection status: (0x82)^IOffline data collection activity Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas completed without error. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Self-test execution status: ( 0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Total time to complete Offline Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: data collection: ^I^I ( 609) seconds. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Offline data collection Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IOffline surface scan supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART capabilities: (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Error logging capability: (0x01)^IError logging supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Short self-test routine Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 1) minutes. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Extended self-test routine Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Conveyance self-test routine Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 2) minutes. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SCT capabilities: ^I (0x103b)^ISCT Status supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 206494492 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 093 092 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 54 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 19 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1760524 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 088 088 000 Old_age Always - 10572 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 037 020 Old_age Always - 107 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 184 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 098 000 Old_age Always - 30065229831 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 457 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 062 050 045 Old_age Always - 38 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/39) Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 025 000 Old_age Always - 206494492 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Error Log Version: 1 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: No Errors Logged Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10553 - Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 10456 - Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 1 0 0 Not_testing Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 2 0 0 Not_testing Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 3 0 0 Not_testing Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 4 0 0 Not_testing Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: 5 0 0 Not_testing Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Selective self-test flags (0x0): Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-finish[6171]: Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]:

Based on the previous post, it would sound like this diff is ok then? Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 54c54 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 111 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 40394155 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: --- Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 119 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 206494492 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 58c58 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1670756 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: --- Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 062 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 1760524 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: 64,66c64,66 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 423 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 050 045 Old_age Always - 33 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/34) Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 051 025 000 Old_age Always Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: --- Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 457 Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 062 050 045 Old_age Always - 38 (Lifetime Min/Max 31/39) Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 056 025 000 Old_age Always Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: ============================================================================ Feb 14 05:26:19 Tower preclear_disk-diff[6184]: