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From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
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On Sat, 9 Oct 2004, Mikhail P. wrote:

MP> > > I reloaded OS on the new drives, then restored all data from the old
MP> > > drives. All seemed to be fine for 2 months now... but today I woke up,
MP> > > and noticed these messages again.
MP> >
MP> > A lot of them, or just one or two?  Some ATA drives will spin down at
MP> > regular intervals to recalibrate, and you'll get a harmless timeout if
MP> > you try to write to the disk while it's doing that.
MP>
MP> Unfortunately, all the drives (so far - four 200GB drives).
MP> I'm having the previous two drives shipped here within two weeks.
MP> Most likely these drives aren't corrupted actually.. will stress them locally
MP> here.

Well, I suppose Dag-Erling means 'lot of errors' as opposed to one or two
raisen sporadically...

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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