Instruction

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The Report

# smartctl -q noserial -a  /dev/sdb
smartctl 5.39 2009-09-04 r2902 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-9 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:     Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and 7200.7 Plus family
Device Model:     ST380011A
Firmware Version: 3.04
User Capacity:    80.026.361.856 bytes
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:   6
ATA Standard is:  ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2
Local Time is:    Tue Sep 29 19:50:43 2009 CEST
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:      (   0)	The previous self-test routine completed
					without error or no self-test has ever 
					been run.
Total time to complete Offline 
data collection: 		 ( 430) 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: 	 (  58) 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   054   051   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       141524796
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003   097   097   000    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   020    Old_age   Always       -       176
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   080   060   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       117208349
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   071   071   000    Old_age   Always       -       25921
 10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013   100   100   097    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
 12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   020    Old_age   Always       -       1745
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   043   053   000    Old_age   Always       -       43
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   054   051   000    Old_age   Always       -       141524796
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   197   000    Old_age   Always       -       4
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
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     20014         -
# 2  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     20009         -
# 3  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     19992         -
# 4  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     19989         -
# 5  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11827         -
# 6  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11803         -
# 7  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11780         -
# 8  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11756         -
# 9  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     11751         -
#10  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11732         -
#11  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11709         -
#12  Extended offline    Completed without error       00%     11690         -
#13  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11686         -
#14  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11679         -
#15  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11674         -
#16  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11650         -
#17  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11626         -
#18  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11611         -
#19  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11598         -
#20  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11590         -
#21  Short offline       Completed without error       00%     11582         -

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.

SMART overall-health state
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