You do realize, that logwatch reports from system logs, and thus might very well have been reporting the errors from before the disk swap? Maybe I don't understand the problem... On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, Matty wrote: > On 12/7/06, Erick Perez <eaperezh at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, yesterday my linux machine gave me some smartd errors so i checked >> the disk in another machine and it had defective sectors, I installed >> a new hard disk on the original machine. >> Today this is being reported in logwatch. >> I have a Maxtor (200gig) as hda, a cdrom as hdc and another hard disk >> that is used for storage as hdd. All plain IDE (not sata) >> >> --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------ >> >> >> WARNING: Kernel Errors Present >> end_request: I/O error, dev hda, sector...: 216 Time(s) >> hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { Uncorrect...: 216 Time(s) >> hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }...: 216 >> hda: Time(s) > > Did you run an enxtended SMART self test on the drive? If two disk > drives are reporting errors, I would start to wonder if the controller > isn't at fault. The SMART self test should help with isolating the > faulty component. > > Thanks, > - Ryan >