On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Guy wrote: > You said this: > " - as everybody has pointed out .. bad data ( disk errors ) > can occur for any number of gazillion reasons ... > Bad data is not caused by disk errors. This seemed like you were blaming > the hard disk. I understand you now. It seems we agree! i should have said "wrong data", where i don;t care why the data is not what one expects... due to failures, errors, problems, features, bugs ... and the point is .. if the data is wrong ... find out precisely why its wrong ... and experiment to confirm the suspicions - usually you will toss out one hardware item at a time to isolate the problem c ya alvin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html