Everything is going well, I am just trying to replace the parts that are on the way out. I ran a 'repair' and it came out with 5477 under /sys/block/md0/md/mismatch_cnt. Then a 'check' came out with 0. Then I went out and bought a couple WD Reds (I'm done with greens now that I know they lack ERC). I replaced one of the two drives Phil said was not ok, which had many reallocations (I can personally see those) in the smart status. I then ran another repair to be safe. It came up with 0 mismatches, but in the process /dev/sda started giving me tons (and tons and tons, rolled over dmesg) of these "failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED status: { DRDY ERR } error: { UNC }" errors. sda hadn't been giving me problems before but I'll come back to it. The second disk Phil said was "not ok" was this one which showed "several pending errors". (original smart status) http://pastie.org/8040852 I was going to replace it with my second spare Red, but the errors seem to have gone away. (current smart status) http://pastie.org/8084278 Or maybe I am looking in the wrong place to find the pending errors (looking at "197 Current_Pending_Sector"). Is the drive currently in need of replacement? I'm not sure what I'm looking for. What about this one (sda), after it gave all of those errors during a repair? http://pastie.org/8084292 I get the "5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct", but where do you find pending errors? What does it mean to get all these "failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED status: { DRDY ERR } error: { UNC }" errors and the smart status seems to be fine even after a repair? Thanks everyone, I'm learning a lot. -- 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