I recently added a 6th disk to a RAID5. All disks are WD 320GB SATA, of different Caviar models (SE, RE) and this new one is RE16. It worked well for about 5 days (completed a 20 hour grow OK). I now see the following messages logged (see at end). Can someone explain what it means? The raid5 is still up and it did not react to this. Being a mythtv repository it gets used regularly. Is this a disk issue? A controller issue (the new disk is now the fourth on a Promise SATA-II-150-TX4)? A kernel problem (2.6.20 vanilla). ata6.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata6.00: cmd 25/00:b8:3f:c4:b6/00:00:20:00:00/e0 tag 0 cdb 0x0 data 94208 in res 50/00:00:f6:c4:b6/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x1 (device error) ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 ata6: EH complete SCSI device sdf: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sdf: Write Protect is off sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdf: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA The disk was detected at bootup as: sata_promise 0000:03:01.0: version 1.05 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:01.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 ata3: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CB2200 ctl 0xF8CB2238 bmdma 0x0 irq 19 ata4: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CB2280 ctl 0xF8CB22B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 19 ata5: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CB2300 ctl 0xF8CB2338 bmdma 0x0 irq 19 ata6: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0xF8CB2380 ctl 0xF8CB23B8 bmdma 0x0 irq 19 ..... scsi5 : sata_promise ..... ata6: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata6.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 625142448 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/1) ata6.00: ata6: dev 0 multi count 0 ata6.00: configured for UDMA/133 ..... scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD3200YS-01P 21.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sdf: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sdf: Write Protect is off sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdf: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sdf: 625142448 512-byte hdwr sectors (320073 MB) sdf: Write Protect is off sdf: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdf: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sdf: sdf1 sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdf TIA -- Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) <http://samba.org/eyal/> attach .zip as .dat - 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