On 5 Aug 2005 at 18:35, Peter Kjellstr?m wrote: > The thing that speaks most clearly for a hard error on disk level is: > hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=43072608, > sector=43072608 Yes. I am afraid so. I am running e2fsck in non-destructive mode and have about a dozen or so bad blocks reported so far. The Ironic thing is that this is a new high capacity drive installed to host online backups of other servers. It is going back to the dealer once I complete the diagnostics. Regards, Jim -- *** e-mail is NOT a secure channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB.<token>@Harte-Lyne.ca Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3CE delivery <token> = hal