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Two disks in error mode after boot

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Dear community

 

This morning, two disk (one parity, one array disk) have been marked as failed (error mode and spinned down) after boot of the unraid server.

I had the same behavior several times a few month ago. Then I replaced the main board and installed a stronger power supply. Also the SATA cables have been replaced.

Since then, I never had an issue and the host was super stable!

 

Please find the diagnostics attached to this topic. 

Any help is highly appreciated! 

 

Thanks in advance!

Andy

nas.gachnet.ch-diagnostics-20210802-1201.zip

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Disks were already disable at boot, so we can't see what happened, check if they have something in common other than the controller, like a power splitter, etc.

  • Author

Thanks for your reply!

 

I see the following:

  1. Both disks are connected to the same Mini-SAS x4 (SFF-8087) cable on a LSI SAS 9207-8i controller
  2. The discs are just installed next to each other. See image!
  3. They are NOT connected to the same power cable of the power supply.

 

A look at the syslog shows that all disks at boot (about 06:00) spun up and were imported. Later, they were spun down. But I don't know where to see when the errors occurred. Do I overlook something? Any further ideas?

 

best regards

Andy

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Edited by Inflight
additional info

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7 hours ago, Inflight said:

where to see when the errors occurred

 

Syslog resets on reboot which is why he said

On 8/2/2021 at 6:26 AM, JorgeB said:

Disks were already disable at boot, so we can't see what happened

 

You should always try to get diagnostics before rebooting.

  • Author

Hmm, that‘s what I did. I did not reboot the tower after I have seen the two disks in error state. I pulled the diagnostics then.

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They were already disabled in this last boot, this means it happened before.

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8 hours ago, Inflight said:

Hmm, that‘s what I did. I did not reboot the tower after I have seen the two disks in error state. I pulled the diagnostics then.

Maybe you didn't notice they were already disabled before boot.

 

Setup Notifications to alert you by email or other agent as soon as a problem is detected.

  • Author

I checked my shutdown script and realized, that I used ‚shutdown -h now‘ instead of ‚/sbin/poweroff‘ to power down the tower.

Could that have been the cause for those disk errors?

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Shouldn't matter and shouldn't disable disks either way.

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