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Guess I took 255 minutes literally, I ran the report command 2 minutes after the "suggested" completion time. Ill make sure its finished next time. Testing has begun. Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Sun May 9 10:05:53 2010 root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdh === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Local Time is: Sun May 9 10:08:20 2010 GMT+6

Joe, here are the results from the long SMART tests. When I built the server I performed a MemTest on the 4GB installed, said no problems. I may just run 1 session of preclear and see what the results are.... root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -t long /dev/sdh smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Sun May 9 10:05:53 2010 Use smartctl -X to abort test. root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdh smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2741749 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sun May 9 10:08:20 2010 GMT+6 SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 244) Self-test routine in progress... 40% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (40800) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 154 153 021 Pre-fail Always - 9283 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 38 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 68 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 19 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 186 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 111 000 Old_age Always - 28 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. root@Tower:/boot/unmenu#

Will do and report back......Thankx for the advice Joe.....

Hello, I began preclearing 4 disks yesterday morning, and earlier today noticed 2 of them had basically "stalled". I stopped the 2 "stalled" sessions, 1 at 6 hours, the other around 2 hours into the process. The other 2 completed the script indicating they had not been precleared, both with this error. === = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdh = cycle 1 of 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful. DONE = Post-Read in progress: 66% complete. ( 1,327,560,192,000 of 2,000,398,934,016 bytes read ) Disk Temperature: 32C, Elapsed Time: 31:24:45 ./preclear_disk.sh: line 552: 1+()%(243201) : syntax error: operand expected (error token is ")%(243201) ") ============================================================================== == Disk /dev/sdh has NOT been precleared successfully == skip=50600 count=200 returned instead of 00000 skip=160800 count=200 returned instead of 00000 ============================================================================ S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem 15,25c15,87 < Error SMART Status command failed < Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ < Register values returned from SMART Status command are: < ST =0x40 < ERR=0x00 < NS =0x14 < SC =0xa8 < CL =0x88 < CH =0xe0 < SEL=0x40 < A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. --- > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > General SMART Values: > Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. > Self-test execution status:(0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. > Total time to complete Offline data collection: (40800) seconds. > Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. > Offline surface scan supported. > Self-test supported. > Conveyance Self-test supported. > Selective Self-test supported. > SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. > Supports SMART auto save timer. > Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. > General Purpose Logging supported. > Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. > Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. > Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. > SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported. > SCT Feature Control supported. > SCT Data Table supported. > > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 154 153 021 Pre-fail Always - 9283 > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 34 > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 18 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 151 > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 > > SMART Error Log Version: 1 > No Errors Logged > > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] > > > SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 > SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS > 1 0 0 Not_testing > 2 0 0 Not_testing > 3 0 0 Not_testing > 4 0 0 Not_testing > 5 0 0 Not_testing > Selective self-test flags (0x0): > After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. > If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. > ======================================================================== After powering down and back up I ran the -t command against both completed disks and show they have successfully been precleared. Should I run the script again? What about the "partition" /dev/sdh1? I would appreciate your comments...... ######################################################################## Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2741749 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Disk /dev/sdh: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 63 3907029167 1953514552+ 0 Empty Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. ######################################################################## ============================================================================ == == DISK /dev/sdh IS PRECLEARED == ============================================================================ root@Tower:/boot/unmenu#