Ok, now I've got a bunch of error reports from the 120GB HD as well, which I'm using for a staging disk with Bacula for backups. A bunch of data gets written and then read from the disk before being written to tape. I see the following errors in the logs: .... end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 87 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xc8 Emask 0x81 stat 0x51 err 0x10 (invalid argument) sd 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 sdc: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Additional sense: Recorded entity not found end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 95 ata2: EH complete SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xc8 Emask 0x81 stat 0x51 err 0x10 (invalid argument) sd 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 sdc: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Additional sense: Recorded entity not found end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 95 ata2: EH complete ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xc8 Emask 0x81 stat 0x51 err 0x10 (invalid argument) sd 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 sdc: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Additional sense: Recorded entity not found end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 95 ata2: EH complete SCSI device sdc: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata2.00: (BMDMA stat 0x20) ata2.00: tag 0 cmd 0xc8 Emask 0x81 stat 0x51 err 0x10 (invalid argument) sd 3:0:0:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x08000002 sdc: Current: sense key: Aborted Command Additional sense: Recorded entity not found end_request: I/O error, dev sdc, sector 63 ata2: EH complete SCSI device sdc: 234441648 512-byte hdwr sectors (120034 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off sdc: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back This is 2.6.19-rc2, libata, regular old IDE running an HPT302 Rev 1 controller with two 12gb HDs, an 18G SCSI disk holding /, /usr, /var & /boot, dual CPU Xeon PIII 550mhz, 768Gb RAM, Debian unstable updated within the last two days. The filesystem (/staging) gets remounted read-only. Now when I run badblocks against the drive, it just complains and complains about all the blocks. If I reboot, the system comes up cleanly and I can access the drive again. A pass with badblocks completes, as does doing the various pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, mke2fs commands to setup the filesystem all over again on the disk. It's /dev/sdc1 hold the PV, holds the VG, holds the LV, holds the filesystem. > sudo pvs /dev/sdc1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/md0 data_vg lvm2 a- 111.79G 1.79G > sudo vgs /dev/sdc1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree data_vg 1 3 0 wz--n- 111.79G 1.79G > sudo lvs Password: /dev/sdc1: read failed after 0 of 2048 at 0: Input/output error LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Log Copy% home_lv data_vg -wi-ao 67.00G local_lv data_vg -wi-ao 35.00G staging data_vg -wi-a- 8.00G I can either reboot the system and get more details, or I can leave it like it is now and try some suggestions to get the disk back online. > sdparm --version version: 0.98 20060509 > sudo sdparm -v /dev/sdc /dev/sdc: ATA WDC WD1200JB-00C 17.0 Request Sense cmd: 03 00 00 00 40 00 request sense: Fixed format, current; Sense key: Illegal Request Additional sense: Invalid command operation code REQUEST SENSE failed Thanks, John - To unsubscribe from this list: 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