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New blinking red ball after power failure and successful parity check, I think

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Hi, I'm trying not to panic, especially since this is the 2nd time I've tried to post this message.

 

I'm running unRaid Pro 4.5.4 for almost a year now with no problems.  Earlier today there was a power failure while I was at work that must have lasted awhile because it drained the backups battery and shut everything down and unfortunately there was no powerdown script.

 

When power came back on, I turned everything back on and was seemingly normal and a parity check started.  Last I checked at around 9pm it was at 50% and no errors all drives blinking green.  Well I just check a bit ago and all drives are blinking green except 12 which is blinking red with 576 errors next to it.  I checked unMenu and it reported "STARTED, 19 disks in array.    Parity is Valid:.  Last parity check < 1 day ago with no sync errors." so I'm assuming something must have happened in the last 1-2 hours? like drive 12 randomly died?  I downloaded the syslog from unmenu.

 

It's late, it's been awhile since I've been on the forum, my mind is blank and I'm trying not to panic. :) I have 20, 2TB drives in the tower, 18 part active, 1 parity, 1 plugged in but not part of the array.

 

My question: What to do next? Please and thank you!!

 

syslog-2011-03-29.zip

Hi, I'm trying not to panic, especially since this is the 2nd time I've tried to post this message.

 

I'm running unRaid Pro 4.5.4 for almost a year now with no problems.  Earlier today there was a power failure while I was at work that must have lasted awhile because it drained the backups battery and shut everything down and unfortunately there was no powerdown script.

 

When power came back on, I turned everything back on and was seemingly normal and a parity check started.  Last I checked at around 9pm it was at 50% and no errors all drives blinking green.  Well I just check a bit ago and all drives are blinking green except 12 which is blinking red with 576 errors next to it.  I checked unMenu and it reported "STARTED, 19 disks in array.    Parity is Valid:.   Last parity check < 1 day ago with no sync errors." so I'm assuming something must have happened in the last 1-2 hours? like drive 12 randomly died?  I downloaded the syslog from unmenu.

 

It's late, it's been awhile since I've been on the forum, my mind is blank and I'm trying not to panic. :) I have 20, 2TB drives in the tower, 18 part active, 1 parity, 1 plugged in but not part of the array.

 

My question: What to do next? Please and thank you!!

 

 

Basically, do not panic.

 

There are only two types of hard disks in the world.  No, not IDE and SATA.

The two types are:

  Those disks that have crashed/failed.

  Those disks that have not yes crashed/failed.  (just give them time... they will)

 

It looks like disk12 (/dev/sde) has stopped responding.

 

You can try to see if you can get a smart report from it.

 

If not, you can stop the array, power down, re-seat the cables to it, power up and see if a smart report can be obtained.

If not, you can try swapping the cable to it, or switching it with another disk to see if it is the disk controller port.

 

In any case, if the drive has failed, just stop the array, put a new replacement drive into place (or use the "devices" page to assign a different spare drive to the slot in the array) and then press "Start"

 

The contents of the drive will be re-constructed onto the replacement.  When done you'll be parity protected once more.

 

Joe L.

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Thanks for your response!

 

I took your advice, stopped array, powered down, changed the Y splitter power cable and reseated the sata cable (note: the Sata cable is one of the ones that splits into 4 from the SAS-LP-MV8 card, so I'm assuming the cable isn't the issue or all 4 drives would have a problem? and the sata power was from a Y splitter off a main plug on the power supply, so this may not have been the issue either since other drive power is fine?)

 

Everything booted fine and all drives solid green except 12 which is solid red.  From unMenu, I ran a short smart test of drive 12 and the the smart report is below:

 

I'm not 100% sure how to interpret it.  It says a test is in progress with 10% left, and has said that even after multiple refreshes over 15 minutes?

 

So, my new question... Was this all just a fluke or a bad power cable and now all is well and just bring that drive back online?  Or is this a bad drive and let the parity rebuild on the warm spare and just RMA this drive?

 

Thanks so much!

 

 

Statistics for /dev/sde SAMSUNG_HD203WI_S1UYJ1KZ403015

 

smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sde

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:    SAMSUNG HD203WI

Serial Number:    S1UYJ1KZ403015

Firmware Version: 1AN10002

User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes

Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

ATA Version is:  8

ATA Standard is:  Not recognized. Minor revision code: 0x28

Local Time is:    Tue Mar 29 17:02:54 2011 GMT+5

 

==> WARNING: May need -F samsung or -F samsung2 enabled; see manual for details.

 

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:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity

was never started.

Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.

Self-test execution status:      ( 241) Self-test routine in progress...

10% of test remaining.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection: (26340) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

Suspend Offline collection upon new

command.

Offline surface scan supported.

Self-test supported.

No 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.

SCT capabilities:       (0x003f) 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  100  100  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      292

  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0026  252  252  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0023  060  060  025    Pre-fail  Always      -      12264

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      372

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  252  252  010    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  252  252  051    Old_age  Always      -      0

  8 Seek_Time_Performance  0x0024  252  252  015    Old_age  Offline      -      0

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      612

10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  252  252  051    Old_age  Always      -      0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  252  252  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      10

191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0022  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      420

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022  252  252  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0002  064  064  000    Old_age  Always      -      27 (Lifetime Min/Max 18/31)

195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x003a  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  252  252  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      1

198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  252  252  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x002a  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      33

223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032  252  252  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      2595

 

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 (0) should be 1

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0

Warning: ATA Specification requires selective self-test log data structure revision number = 1

SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

    1        0        0  Self_test_in_progress [10% left] (0-65535)

    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.

 

 

 

I notice you have a pending sector for reallocation. Keep an eye on that. It should either disappear or become reallocated (reallocated event probably) and no new ones should pop-up

 

It will not fix itself. You probably need to stop, unassign the drive, start, stop, assign the drive and start again. The drive will be rebuilt onto itself and if the drive is OK then the array will come back with everything happy again. The rebuild should fail if the drive is bad and just never complete.

 

Peter

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Thanks.

 

On closer inspection, I heard a faint whinning/clicking noise from that drive number 12, one that sounds like impending doom. So I guess that solves the problem?  I unplugged the sata cable from that and placed it into the warm spare and started data rebuild onto it. With that drive out, there is no more noise, and I'll just RMA it.  Maybe the power outage helped it along to its grave?  Seems like the drive should have lasted longer than 10 months... oh well.  I guess it's time to start looking through the forums for a rec for a new 2TB drive.

 

 

Thanks for all the help! :)

Hitachi drives seem to be doing really well right now.

 

Peter

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