On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, James wrote:
Can someone point me in the right direction? (a) what causes these errors precisely?
dmesg should give you information if this is SATA errors.
(c) are these errors expected in a RAID array that is heavily used?
No.
(d) what kind of errors should I see regarding "read errors" that *would* indicate an imminent hardware failure?
You should look into the SMART information on the drives using smartctl. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx -- 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