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Subject: Re: This has begun to annoy me...
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On Friday 01 February 2008 14:23:27 Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > You could changing the disk for another.  If you get similar messages
> > with the other disk too, then it is probably not the disk which is at
> > fault.
>
> smartmontools gets error info from DRIVE directly, so it's easy to know if
> it was drive media error or drive communication errors!
>
> > --
> > <Insert your favourite quote here.>

I have a laptop doing same thing, but even with the occasional spontaneous 
reboot, it is still more reliable than Windows, and as I haven't had time to 
mess with it, it stays in there. Probably will run dban on the drive, see if 
it makes happy.