Hi All, I've got a degraded RAID5 which I'm trying to add in the replacement disk. Trouble is, every time the recovery starts, it flies along at 70MB/s or so. Then after doing about 1%, it starts dropping rapidly, until eventually a device is marked failed. When I look in dmesg, I get the following... SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7ff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata5.00: (irq_stat 0x00060002, device error via SDB FIS) ata5.00: cmd 60/00:10:3f:0e:f9/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in res 41/40:00:50:0e:f9/9c:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: EH complete SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7ff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata5.00: (irq_stat 0x00060002, device error via SDB FIS) ata5.00: cmd 60/00:18:3f:02:f9/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 3 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in res 41/40:00:c3:02:f9/9c:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: EH complete SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7ff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata5.00: (irq_stat 0x00060002, device error via SDB FIS) ata5.00: cmd 60/00:10:3f:0e:f9/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in res 41/40:00:50:0e:f9/9c:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: EH complete SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x7ff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata5.00: (irq_stat 0x00060002, device error via SDB FIS) ata5.00: cmd 60/00:18:3f:02:f9/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 3 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in res 41/40:00:c3:02:f9/9c:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: EH complete SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back ata5.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3ff SErr 0x0 action 0x0 ata5.00: (irq_stat 0x00060002, device error via SDB FIS) ata5.00: cmd 60/00:10:3f:0e:f9/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 cdb 0x0 data 131072 in res 41/40:00:50:0e:f9/9c:00:00:00:00/40 Emask 0x9 (media error) ata5.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata5: EH complete SCSI device sdd: 976773168 512-byte hdwr sectors (500108 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off sdd: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back I've no idea what to make of these errors. As far as I can work out, the HD's themselves are fine They are all less than 2 months old. The box is CentOS 5.1. Linux space.homenet.com 2.6.18-53.1.13.el5 #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 13:02:30 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Any suggestions on what I can do to stop this issue? Steve. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.7/1284 - Release Date: 17/02/2008 14:39 - 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