On 2013-04-04, Juha Erkkila <j...@turnipsi.no-ip.org> wrote: > Hello misc, > > I am having a problem with a mirroring softraid configuration. > Every time I try to access a particular partition in softraid > volume I start to get I/O errors so that softraid totally "breaks", > that is, becomes non-operative. > > Note that it does very much look like that both of these > disks are actually defective.
> Note that I said that I think both disks are defective. When > the system is booted with softraid disabled and then the disks > (sd0 and sd1) are read with > "dd if=/dev/rsd0c of=/dev/null conv=noerror,sync", > dd reports several I/O errors (a few such errors every now and then). You might want to try different cables, though really it sounds like it's probably time to restore from your backups.