Hello, I have one LV (/home/hom_vg/home_lv) spanning over two PV. The PVs were created on /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdd1, both covering the entire disks hdc (120 gb) and hdd (200 gb) respectively. The mapping is linear. My hdc is physically damaged... I could not even run fsck, badblocks and dd_rescue. All of them give an output like this (from dmesg): hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=512, high=0, low=512, sector=512 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 512 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 64 hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=512, high=0, low=512, sector=512 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 512 Buffer I/O error on device hdc, logical block 64 Adding 690784k swap on /dev/hda4. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:690784k EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=447, high=0, low=447, sector=447 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 447 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0 hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=455, high=0, low=455, sector=455 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 455 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 1 hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=463, high=0, low=463, sector=463 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 463 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 2 hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=471, high=0, low=471, sector=471 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 471 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 3 hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=447, high=0, low=447, sector=447 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 447 Buffer I/O error on device dm-0, logical block 0 fuse init (API version 7.8) kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on hda2, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=449, high=0, low=449, sector=449 ide: failed opcode was: unknown end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 449 EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/