On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 13:57:47 -0700 "Jason Taylor" <jtaylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Now it just did it again and I see end_request: I/O error dev sda > transacton ####### > > How could both hard drives be the same? If you can make it do it again then I need to know the stuff that is displayed beyond the end_request report - the actual ATA error codes for one. It may not be the drives but you've provided almost no info so its hard to tell at this point. The actual error data printed will give a much better idea of what occurred - drive or otherwise.