> I've seen a lot of verbosity out of SCSI messages, but I haven't seen a > straightforward interpretation of the problem in there. It's all > information useful for debugging, not information useful for system > administration. It tells you what is going on. Unfortunately that frequently requires some basic knowledge of how to interpret the error report. Drive interface behaviour simply doesn't boil down to a fault light on the dashboard or a "tighten the cable". For most common fault types you'll get errors most administrators should find meaningful - like "Media error" > On the other hand, bringing the system down because a device is > misbehaving is a poor idea. I've personally recovered most of the data off Hence we have RAID and SATA hotplug. Alan - 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