Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.
> grep in the kernel log about hard io failure on the lower > level devices. > I guess there is some part of one of your disks is no longer readable. I've found smartmontools to be extremely useful for proactively monitoring hard disk health. It's included in RHEL 4 and Fedora Core 2 and above. You can configure the daemon to do scheduled SMART checks, email you when a drive starts throwing errors, and perform read-only tests on drives without downtime. The only problem I know about is that it doesn't work with SATA drives under the libata driver due to lack of support for the needed ATA-passthrough ioctl() calls. http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ Brandon Poyner Network Engineer III CCAC - College Office 412-237-3086