Problem with seagate ST3250823A.

I have this drive, a 250GB seagate. Just today, while I was testing the speed of my drives, I noticed this one was behaving strangly. The smart counters changes every time I inquire them... Another thing: when is in slave mode and I do identification the drive does well the first time, but the others return garbage, and the smart returns nothing. :shock:

So to see if you can help me with this I saved the log and edited for easier reading.

I'm clueless... Should I be worried? This have never happened to me before with any disk, and this one is mine and contains my information.

Please help me understand this. Thank you.

Code:: 28:15 | MHDD 4.6 (c) Dmitry Postrigan | FREEWARE 28:15 Changing mode to: IDE 28:28 Changing mode to: IDE 28:28 Device selected: 3 28:39 MHDD>SMART ATT 28:39 Getting SMART attributes... 28:39 SMART READ ATTRIBUTES 28:39 HDD: ST3250823A; FW: 3.02; SN: 3ND0K49X 28:39 -------------------------------------------------------- 28:39 SMART attributes: 28:39 Name Val Worst Raw 28:39 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372897 28:39 Att # 3 : Spin up time : 98 98 0 28:39 Att # 4 : Number of spin-up times : 100 100 146 28:39 Att # 5 : Reallocated sectors count : 100 100 0 28:39 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752404 28:39 Att # 9 : Power-on time : 96 96 4375 28:39 Att # 10 : Spin-up retries : 100 100 0 28:39 Att # 12 : Start/stop count : 100 100 162 28:39 Att # 194 : HDA Temperature : 32 47 32 28:39 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372897 28:39 Att # 197 : Current pending sectors : 100 100 0 28:39 Att # 198 : Offline scan UNC sectors : 100 100 0 28:39 Att # 199 : Ultra ATA CRC Error Rate : 200 192 34 28:39 Att # 200 : Write error rate : 100 253 0 28:39 Att # 202 : Unknown : 100 253 0 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 28:40 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372899 28:40 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752409 28:40 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372899 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 28:41 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372901 28:41 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752414 28:41 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372901 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:02 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372903 29:02 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752419 29:02 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372903 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:02 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372905 29:02 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752424 29:02 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372905 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:03 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372907 29:03 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752429 29:03 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372907 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:04 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372909 29:04 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752434 29:04 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372909 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:04 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372911 29:04 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752439 29:04 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372911 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:05 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372913 29:05 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752444 29:05 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372913 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:05 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372915 29:05 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752449 29:05 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372915 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:06 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372917 29:06 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752454 29:06 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372917 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:07 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372919 29:07 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752459 29:07 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372919 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:07 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372921 29:07 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752464 29:07 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372921 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:15 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372923 29:15 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752469 29:15 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372923 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:16 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372925 29:16 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752474 29:16 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372925 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:18 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372927 29:18 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752479 29:18 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372927 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:19 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372929 29:19 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752484 29:19 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372929 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 29:20 Att # 1 : Read error rate : 54 48 130372931 29:20 Att # 7 : Seek error rate : 81 60 145752489 29:20 Att # 195 : Hardware ECC recovered : 54 48 130372931 29:40 ------------------------------- 29:40 Lap : 1 29:40 LBA scan: 0 to 488397167 30:57 þ LBA Timeout: 10084230 30:57 Last scanned LBA: 10084484 30:57 Blocks < 3ms = 39226 30:57 Blocks < 10ms = 135 30:57 Blocks < 50ms = 185 30:57 Blocks < 150ms = 0 30:57 Blocks < 500ms = 0 30:57 Blocks > 500ms = 0 30:57 No warnings, no errors 30:57 Done

When doing Id changes the size every time and only the first inquire is right, the other ones contains garbage

Code:: 21:43 MHDD>I 21:43 ST3250823A LBA: 488,397,168 21:43 SN: 3ND0K49X FW: 3.02 21:45 MHDD>I 21:45 T 25082 @ LBA: 488,397,168 21:45 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:46 MHDD>I 21:46 T 050820@ LBA: 268,173,311 21:46 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:49 MHDD>I 21:49 T325082 @ LBA: 268,042,239 21:49 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:49 MHDD>I 21:50 T 0 082 @ LBA: 268,042,239 21:50 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:50 MHDD>I 21:50 T 25082 @ LBA: 488,380,784 21:50 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:51 MHDD>I 21:51 T 25082 @ LBA: 488,118,640 21:51 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:51 MHDD>I 21:51 T 0 082 @ LBA: 421,009,776 21:51 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:52 MHDD>I 21:52 T 25082 @ LBA: 268,173,311 21:52 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:52 MHDD>I 21:52 T 25082 @ LBA: 268,173,311 21:52 SN: 3N K4 X FW: 3.02 21:53 MHDD>I