Raz wrote: > Jeff Hello > > We have in our machines several sata (mostly maxtor-segate) disks in an array. > These disks generate too many ata-io errors at clients sites. > From raid1 code I have learned that a re-write sometimes fixes a disk. > > Question: Why ? > Question: Does it always work ? > Question: Does rewriting a slow sector also reduces a disk error rate, > does it make any sense ? You need to post much more information to get anyone on the list interested. * lspci -nn * boot log (/var/log/boot.msg on some distros or the result of dmesg after boot) * kernel error messages (dmesg after errors) -- tejun - 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