On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, James wrote:

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> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> (a) what causes these errors precisely?

dmesg should give you information if this is SATA errors.

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> (c) are these errors expected in a RAID array that is heavily used?

No.

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> (d) what kind of errors should I see regarding "read errors" that
> *would* indicate an imminent hardware failure?

You should look into the SMART information on the drives using smartctl.

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