Here is the exact error message from Syslog. (I could not find cstm on my system).

Jun 7 06:02:04 nvidev vmunix: xvfs: mesg 016 : vx_ilisterr - /fs5 file system error readin inode 473
Jun 7 12:40:07 nvidev vmunix: disc30 56/52.4.0 SCSI even UNKNOWN_RESELECT
Jun 7 12:40:07 nvidev vmunix: LVM: vg[1]: pvnum=0 (dev_t=0x1c00400) is POWERFAILED
Jun 7 12:40:07 nvidev vmunix: LVM: PV 0 has been returned to vg[1].

Once this happened while one of our programmers was in the middle of something and the whole system froze up. After about 10 minutes of panic from several people, the system cleared up and he was able to save his work. Since this happens 3 or 4 times a week, the manager believes that the drive is failing and would like it replaced before it fails completely.

Just to let you know, we first noticed the problem when the whole system crashed. We restarted the machine and noticed the errors in the syslog. As far as I know, there were no changes to the system before the crash.

Thanx for your help

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