Richard Torkar wrote: > If you check /var/log/messages and look for that time frame you'll > see a lot of strange things being written to that file ;) Oh yes - FYI: Apr 6 10:40:35 lin kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (1 0) 00 00 04 90 21 00 00 01 00 Apr 6 10:40:35 lin kernel: Info fld=0x49021, Current sd0b:00: sense key Medium Error Apr 6 10:40:35 lin kernel: Additional sense indicates L-EC uncorrectable error Apr 6 10:40:35 lin kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1196164 Apr 6 10:40:39 lin kernel: scsi0: ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (1 0) 00 00 04 90 21 00 00 01 00 Apr 6 10:40:39 lin kernel: Info fld=0x49021, Current sd0b:00: sense key Medium Error Apr 6 10:40:39 lin kernel: Additional sense indicates L-EC uncorrectable error Apr 6 10:40:39 lin kernel: I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1196164 Apr 6 16:37:58 lin syslogd 1.4.1: restart. BTW does anyone have any neat ways of keeping an eye on this file - like a beep when it's written to or a console for it's output (other than tail -s)?