I've just had a similar problem but with SATA drives. I discovered some reports of problems when smartctl scans were issued against running drives. For me the fix was to turn off SMART monitoring (service smartd stop && chkconfig smartd off). Daveh
Sun Apr 2 10:36:01 UTC 2006
Dave Hatton <lists at starground.it>
I've just had a similar problem but with SATA drives. I discovered some reports of problems when smartctl scans were issued against running drives. For me the fix was to turn off SMART monitoring (service smartd stop && chkconfig smartd off). Daveh