On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 05:40 +0100, Pablo Povarchik wrote: > We have recently added 20 servers to our little farm, 7 of which were > having hard failuers on disks (SATA, Seagate, good brand new > SuperMicro boxes) > > The fact is that this failures are coming up right after we decided to > move to reiserfs. > > Can 7 out of 20 hard drives be defective I presume that you've also tested the suspect hard drives on a different computer? If not, I would. Another thing to test for with multiple failures, is adequate ventilation. Both the drives, and the hardware they connect to. -- (Currently running FC4, also trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.