jeffunit wrote: > Based on all of the above, I now suspect a hardware problem with > /dev/sdb (as you suspected), which was formerly /dev/sda. > There were two errors with the drive currently attached to /dev/sda, but > if they > don't come back, I won't worry. > > Do you concur? Yeap. Uncorrectable media errors during READ do occur from time to time and if you just write over those sectors, the harddrive will automatically reallocate those tracks to spare area, so just doing "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M" and rebuilding FS is likely to fix the problem. If that doesn't help, you need to RMA the drive. -- 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