Ludovico Cavedon wrote: > Is there any way to understand what caused the failures? Is it possible > to exclude that is was the hard drive, or cable, or controller, or > kernel fault? > Do the drives have any SMART errors logged? Any reallocated sectors? Do you run smartd, or any other smart data collection? I've had a load of trouble with WD drives when smart data collection was enabled. Haven't had time to get to the bottom of it, but I suspect a firmware bug. Tim. -- 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