On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 11:52:02AM +0200, Danilo Godec wrote: > Well, it's been two full days (48+ hours) and no error... I guess > smartctrl doesn't like WDC drives (or better yet, vise versa). I don't know about your specifics, but I had multiple (~10) WDC harddrives running with smartctl/smartd polling them periodically, and with various controllers (VIA, Promise, 3ware, but not Intel). I didn't have any issues like this. Maybe it's a specific interation between the drive and the controller? Or the driver? iustin -- 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