> > > Additional sense: Unrecovered read error - auto reallocate failed > > > end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 393692817 > > > > this sort of thing would make me want to sanity-check the drives, > > since it certainly sounds like a media/heat/vibration/power problem. > > > > have you run a SMART selftest on these drives? > > I've done badblocks on the drive and it's fine. I haven't tried > smartctl as I read -d ata can cause problems because of some SCSI > queuing thing? Can I safely use smartd yet? afaikt, the smart thing had to do with incomplete locking of the scsi passthrough stuff. it was never an issue in a testing situation (without other IO), and I'd guess it's been fixed since. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html