> Well, if it is within the size of the drive, and you get a "bad noise" > when trying to access it, then it may be that you have a bad drive. If > you are doing low-level formats of the drive, this may do bad block > relocation, and hide the fact that there are bad spots. That's what I thought at first, but as I explained earlier, the errors ONLY occur when running under LVM and go away as soon as I use the raw disk. I went back and forth several times. I'm pretty sure it is an LVM thing, but no idea what it is. ----------------------------------------------------- Protect yourself from spam, use http://sneakemail.com