Hello, I have the following problem with raid device (linear). I can successfully create the linear device /dev/md0 this way # mkraid --configfile ./rd.conf --really-force /dev/md0 disk 0: /dev/hda11, 4972086kB, raid superblock at 4971968kB disk 1: /dev/hdc11, 3020188kB, raid superblock at 3020096kB when the configfile is: raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level linear nr-raid-disks 2 persistent-superblock 1 chunk-size 8 device /dev/hda11 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdc11 raid-disk 1 Then I try to do the two dd commands: # dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 skip=9944158 1+0 records in 1+0 records out # dd if=/dev/md0 of=/dev/null bs=512 count=1 skip=9944159 dd: reading `/dev/md0': Input/output error 0+0 records in 0+0 records out Why does the second dd command fail? The size of /dev/md0 is about 7.9Gb, so why does dd fail on reading block with offset about ~5Gb? In kernel logs I see the following: Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944152, count=24 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944152 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944154, count=22 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944154 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944156, count=20 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944156 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944158, count=18 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944158 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944160, count=16 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944160 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944162, count=14 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944162 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944164, count=12 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944164 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944166, count=10 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944166 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944168, count=8 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944168 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944170, count=6 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944170 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944172, count=4 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944172 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: hda;: bad access: block=9944174, count=2 Jan 16 21:59:39 flint kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 03:0b (hda), sector 9944174 I use kernel 2.4.24 and raidtools-1.00.3. I checked /dev/hda11 and /dev/hdc11 by badblocks, and no bad blocks were found on these devices. Thank you very much for helping me. Lena - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html