January 4, 20224 yr Over the last 3 months I've had Drive 2 fail numerous times, leading in corrupted files, which i had to fix using xfs repair. Around a week ago, this drive turned into "Contents Emulated, Drive Disabled." I wasn't 100% sure what this meant but assumed the drive had given up. I had a spare drive, so replaced and rebuilt the array, without a issue and is all running OK again now. In the mean time, I added the "faulty" drive back into the array, and did a preclear, assuming if anything was wrong, it would show up. But.... It was all clear, and smart test was "Passed" I have started a memtest this evening, it has been going for 3:45 Hours and has had no issues. Could it still be a drive error even though nothing is showing up indicating that? Is there anything else I should check or test to prevent this happening in future, assuming it isn't this drive? Appreciate any help. Attached: Preclear results.
January 4, 20224 yr Community Expert Do you have diagnostics from when the drive became disabled? Bad connections are a much more common reason than bad disks.
January 4, 20224 yr Author 14 minutes ago, trurl said: Do you have diagnostics from when the drive became disabled? Bad connections are a much more common reason than bad disks. I don’t… on the note of bad connections, I did replace my Sata cables with other ones just in case. im not sure the cabling setup I have is quite the recommended one! Pictures attached. when I first built this server I bought a LSI card, I don’t have any experience with these and hadn’t really a clue how to use it, but I couldn’t fathom it and left it. Would this improve my system reliability? also attached a picture of LSI card and cabling I bought. thanks.
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