On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jim Perrin <jperrin at gmail.com> wrote: > > The only issue I've ever seen has been with the onboard fakeraid stuff > more and more vendors seem to be adding. I've been using SATA disks > with centos since the early 4.x days without issue, so you have me at > a bit of a loss here. I'd say if anything it's due to controller > support, and much of that can be chalked up to what hardware vendors > are pawning off as 'controllers' these days. > 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. I thought this was more than just a bit suspicious, since there are only 4,687,500,000 sectors on a 300GB disk, and the likelihood of having errors on 4,294,967,295 (~92%) of them is rather slim unless the whole system is crashing a lot (it's not). It's a Seagate 300GB, so I ran Seagate's SeaTools on it in lightweight mode, and no problems were reported, which is good because the disk is only about a year and a half old and has my CentOS root, swap, boot and home partitions on it. I'll dig deeper on this one - sounds fishy to me, too, now.... mhr