Originally Posted By: Boelle
after some 11-12 hours i got this:

empeg:/empeg/bin# cat /dev/hd? > /dev/null
hdb: read_intr: status=0x59
hdb: read_intr: error=0x40
show_message("36e0.-1 hdb: err: read_intr")
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb), sector 115464112
cat: /dev/hdc: Input/output error
empeg:/empeg/bin#


Mmm.. "read_intr: status=0x59 error=0x40" really means "bad sector". That shouldn't happen here if you successfully did the cat /dev/zero > /dev/hdc command beforehand.

So repeat both steps again. If it still fails, something else (connectors) may be bad.

Or get the smartctl binary for the empeg and run it -- it will read out the error logs from the drive to tell us what *really* happened.

Cheers