Applies to NetApp E-Series Issue Drives report many unrecoverable media errors Faulty media on drive causing read errors eventual multiple drive failure
On a disk, a media error is an event where the disk was unable to perform the requested I/O operation because of problems accessing the stored data. Recoverable errors indicate that a disk may have to...On a disk, a media error is an event where the disk was unable to perform the requested I/O operation because of problems accessing the stored data. Recoverable errors indicate that a disk may have to do something more than the initial access to correctly access the data. It may be that that a retry is needed, or that the retries do not produce the correct data and that some error correction has been done.