<div>By the way. I also ran "smartctl --test=short /dev/sdb" which apparently self-tests the hard drive and when I look at the health information using "smartctl -H /dev/sdb" it reports that the test had a read failure:</div>
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<div>SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1<br>Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error<br># 1 Short offline Completed: read failure 60% 15928 49575991</div>
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<div>smartctl is an excellent tool. I wish I knew more about how to use it.</div>
<div>-Greg</div>