On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 07:52:50PM -0000, Karl wrote: > > 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. The only thing I can think is that the SCSI device is not being opened/initialised properly by LVM. This certainly wasn't happening before ~July when I put the open/close_pv() functions in. But should be working now. Puzzled. You really are using the new tools and not old binaries in strange places ? I've been caught a couple of times by this ... - Joe
