Persistant smartd errors...

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

I originally posted this to the hardware list, but got no response, so
I'm trying it here, too.  Any input would be appreciated.

A few weeks ago I started seeing prefailure messages in my logwatch
emails - it appeared that my hard drive was failing.

I dutifully bought a new drive, reinstalled on it, and pulled my data
over.  I finally got around to setting up smartd again, and I see more
prefailure messages of the same ilk - on the new drive.  The old drive
is still plugged in, and it is not mounted, but monitored, and has begun 
showing Seek_Time_Performance errors (again) as well.  Here is an excerpt
of my logs as summarized by logwatch:

 --------------------- Smartd Begin ------------------------

 /dev/hda :
    Prefailure: Seek_Time_Performance (8) changed to
      246, 247, 246,
    Usage: Power_On_Hours (9) changed to
      250,

 /dev/hdb :
    Usage: Power_On_Hours (9) changed to
      236,

 /dev/hda :
    started scheduled Short self-test 1 Time(s)

 /dev/hdb :
    started scheduled Short self-test 1 Time(s)

 ---------------------- Smartd End -------------------------

hda is the new drive, and hdb is the old one.  I am wondering if I a)
have crappy luck and bought a replacement drive that is also barfing or
b) have some other component of my system that is messing with my hard
drives on my first IDE cable.

I am looking for advice, because I do not have a replacement motherboard
or power supply to swap in to see if that is the problem, and I cannot
afford both at this time.  Any suggestions?  Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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