On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 23:15 +0000, Laurence Orchard wrote: > Ok, I have spent the afternoon running IBM's Drive Fitness Test & > Western Digital's Diag program. Neither found any errors on the drives > even when running the extended tests which read every sector on the > disc. In that case, if the drive appears fine, it may be how Linux is configured. You may want to play with DMA settings. This isn't my forte, so I'll let someone else advise on that. You may want to post the errors/warnings that you saw before from smartd. -- (Currently running FC4, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.