I have to agree with you I have Hardy though I do see many improvements this is a major concern but it appears this is not resolved. I have gone through 3 drives already but sadly Ubuntu cannot get this fix they will loose user's hard drives for laptops are not cheap. What is sad is that Hardy is very smooth boot times are great my laptop does not get hot like it did and then this nonsense with the hard drive still rears it's ugly head. So if you do see anything that I missed or did wrong please advise me if I am correct sadly I will go back to Windows XP which I really do not want to. Maybe I am not doing this right but here is my stats Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 32851 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 378 You can get the average per hour by the following division: Load_Cycle_Count / Power_On_Hours That works out to 86.907407407 YIKES !!!! Just in case I did it wrong I will post my entire results === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST9120822AS Serial Number: 5LZ34Z5F Firmware Version: 3.ALB User Capacity: 120,034,123,776 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 7 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sat Apr 26 08:46:19 2008 BST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 25) The self-test routine was aborted by the host. Total time to complete Offline data collection: ( 426) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. No General Purpose Logging support. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 111) minutes. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 006 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 099 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 242 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 069 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 9499978 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 378 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 034 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 219 187 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 189 Unknown_Attribute 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 067 050 045 Old_age Always - 588447777 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 140 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 084 084 000 Old_age Always - 32851 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 050 000 Old_age Always - 33 (Lifetime Min/Max 0/16) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 083 064 000 Old_age Always - 193176778 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 2 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 199 000 Old_age Always - 147 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 202 TA_Increase_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 ATA Error Count: 147 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) CR = Command Register [HEX] FR = Features Register [HEX] SC = Sector Count Register [HEX] SN = Sector Number Register [HEX] CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX] CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX] DH = Device/Head Register [HEX] DC = Device Command Register [HEX] ER = Error register [HEX] ST = Status register [HEX] Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes, SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days. Error 147 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 177 hours (7 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 23 02 63 7f e0 Error: ABRT at LBA = 0x007f6302 = 8348418 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- 24 00 40 e5 62 7f e0 00 00:44:11.540 READ SECTOR(S) EXT 24 00 10 45 eb 7d e0 00 00:44:11.532 READ SECTOR(S) EXT 24 00 08 7d c7 7d e0 00 00:44:11.527 READ SECTOR(S) EXT 24 00 08 c5 b7 87 e0 00 00:44:11.519 READ SECTOR(S) EXT 24 00 08 0d af 87 e0 00 00:44:11.509 READ SECTOR(S) EXT Error 146 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 177 hours (7 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 1f 10 7c f2 e1 Error: ICRC, ABRT 31 sectors at LBA = 0x01f27c10 = 32668688 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 80 af 7b f2 e1 00 01:08:41.903 READ DMA c8 00 80 2f 7b f2 e1 00 01:08:41.898 READ DMA c8 00 80 af 7a f2 e1 00 01:08:41.897 READ DMA c8 00 80 2f 7a f2 e1 00 01:08:41.892 READ DMA c8 00 80 af 79 f2 e1 00 01:08:41.891 READ DMA Error 145 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 177 hours (7 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 1f 40 c7 6b e1 Error: ICRC, ABRT 31 sectors at LBA = 0x016bc740 = 23840576 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 80 df c6 6b e1 00 01:06:04.477 READ DMA c8 00 80 5f c6 6b e1 00 01:06:04.469 READ DMA c8 00 80 df c5 6b e1 00 01:06:04.428 READ DMA c8 00 80 5f c5 6b e1 00 01:06:04.427 READ DMA c8 00 80 5f c3 6b e1 00 01:06:04.421 READ DMA Error 144 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 177 hours (7 days + 9 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 00 fe 49 73 e2 Error: ICRC, ABRT at LBA = 0x027349fe = 41110014 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 80 7f 49 73 e2 00 01:05:28.061 READ DMA c8 00 80 ff 48 73 e2 00 01:05:28.056 READ DMA c8 00 80 7f 48 73 e2 00 01:05:28.055 READ DMA c8 00 80 ff 47 73 e2 00 01:05:28.050 READ DMA c8 00 80 7f 47 73 e2 00 01:05:28.049 READ DMA Error 143 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 176 hours (7 days + 8 hours) When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle. After command completion occurred, registers were: ER ST SC SN CL CH DH -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 84 51 4f 18 70 b2 e2 Error: ICRC, ABRT 79 sectors at LBA = 0x02b27018 = 45248536 Commands leading to the command that caused the error were: CR FR SC SN CL CH DH DC Powered_Up_Time Command/Feature_Name -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- ---------------- -------------------- c8 00 80 e7 6f b2 e2 00 00:52:21.492 READ DMA c8 00 80 67 6f b2 e2 00 00:52:21.480 READ DMA c8 00 80 e7 6e b2 e2 00 00:52:21.475 READ DMA c8 00 80 67 6e b2 e2 00 00:52:21.470 READ DMA c8 00 80 e7 6d b2 e2 00 00:52:21.465 READ DMA SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 182 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 182 - # 3 Extended offline Aborted by host 90% 182 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.