Re: ERROR: could not read block

On 11/14/05, Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)g2switchworks(dot)com> wrote:

> If you were running on top of a RAID 1+0 or RAID 5 array, such an error
> would likely never have happened, since it would have been detected by
> the controller, and either the bad block would be mapped out or the
> drive would be kicked out of the array and you'd get a system alert
> telling you you had a bad drive in your array.
>
>
Except that he jus said he was running on a RAID5. True this problem would
be unlikely on a hardware controlled RAID5 configuration, but not
impossible.

Does the log file tell you anymore information?

Have you tried to rerun the query? If so, did you get similar results?

-Josh