Here's the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology or S.M.A.R.T. drive status for an Adaptec RAID-1 controller with a failed disk. The disk at this point is totally removed from the array. Note that the raid controller happily reports that all is OK: [root@gibraltar root]# smartctl -a /dev/sda smartctl version 5.26 Copyright (C) 2002-3 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Device: ADAPTEC RAID-1 Version: 3A0J Device type: disk Transport protocol: Fibre channel (FCP-2) Local Time is: Tue Feb 7 13:22:35 2006 PST Device supports SMART and is Enabled Temperature Warning Disabled or Not Supported SMART Health Status: OK Current Drive Temperature: 52 C Drive Trip Temperature: 85 C Manufactured in week 52 of year 2001 Current start stop count: 31 times Recommended maximum start stop count: 10000 times Error counter log: Errors Corrected Total Total Correction Gigabytes Total delay: [rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected minor | major rewrites] corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors read: 0 6 0 27 83 150.017 56 write: 0 0 0 0 0 2429.569 0 Non-medium error count: 0 No self-tests have been logged Long (extended) Self Test duration: 1340 seconds [22.3 minutes]