Mhr wrote on Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:59:40 -0700: > The one problem I've seen and posted here was w.r.t. smartd error > reports showing 2^32 - 1 errors on one of the disks (probably my > system disk) every few minutes. How has this anything to do with "SATA problems/drive handling"? And could you please use a decent subject next time? Regarding your problem: Have you done a smartctl selftest since then, did you go to smartmontools.sf.net since then and read up on smartmon? This may just be a problem with smartd not being able to handle the error codes/number of errors from that disk. If you look at smartmontools.sf.net and read the man you'll see that vendors are quite inconsistent in what and how they report and a reversal of byte ordering every now and then seems to be common. Not to mention that ther smartmon shipping with CentOS naturally doesn't include the latest code. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com