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.
