He probably goes to bed at some point,
not like you lot, with your Red Bull drips that enable you to stay up accumulating Magic Points on World of Witchcraft round the clock.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:14, archived)

Now he might look back at this in the morning in some kind of "search for your username" escapade Baldmonkey does.
I'd like to make it PERFECTLY CLEAR to Mr. Official that I did NOT make the above comment.

That's BOGUS, OFFICIAL.
( Jam Master Geordie Hero of B3ta., Fri 29 May 2009, 0:15, archived)

I want to go to bed

( minimum fuss - an all time favourite, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:16, archived)

Me too,
but I have to wait for a SMART long self-test to complete on a new 500Gb HDD.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:25, archived)

What time did you start that off?

( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:26, archived)

about half an hour ago.
Bad foresight, really. Typical of me.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:27, archived)

Night time is always a bad time to start that kind of thing.
It always seems to take an age.
( Wildheart Baby. Drunken Mess In A Good Way, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:28, archived)

Why would you do that? Do you suspect a fault?

( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:28, archived)

I always suspect a fault on a new HDD.
Better safe than sorry.
( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:29, archived)

It'd be quicker to run something like the SiSoft SANDRA hard drive performance test.
You could run it at least 5 times and still be quicker than the long SMART test. It would also show up failures that might otherwise take a few days of use to surface. It also lists the SMART data, so you can see if you're getting any bad sectors between runs.
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:44, archived)

Can you get that for Linux?

( Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:47, archived)

Probably not.
You must surely have a Windows box sat about somewhere though?
( Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 29 May 2009, 0:53, archived)