On Wed, 2005-08-31 at 15:01, David M. Strang wrote: > Is there something a little deeper to this error message? > > Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: scsi2 (12:0): rejecting I/O to offline device > Aug 31 04:48:15 abyss kernel: raid5: Disk failure on sdm, disabling device. This error would make me think that the disk is bad. Have you tested the disk, or replaced it with a known-good disk? Forrest - 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