Hi Paul, > > Toss the drive ... on modern drives they use bad sector relocation to > map bad sectors to hidden sectors. Once you start seeing bad sectors at > the OS level the drive has run out of sectors to relocate to and is > probably on it's way down the tubes. > > Regards, > Paul Berger > Yes, I'm on the way to do that.. but I need to make sure it up at least for the weeks so I could have a time to rebuild the new one and restore the current backup.. currently, after a couple of hour or sometimes a day, the hdd was remount read-only automagicaly and the only solutions I do is reboot the server so it was properly mount read-write.. this will last for hours or day only, then I need to reboot again.. Thanks in advances, Regards, ijez -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.2.0/275 - Release Date: 06/03/2006