Just finished preclearing my 3 drives but now after starting an array with them i saw it was stuck on formatting for more then a couple of minutes. then after a couple more minutes i noticed ihave 3,509 errors on one of my data drives only after a few minutes and it was reported as disk invalid.  at first unmenu was very slow in loading the pages and now i cant access it at all. for a while after that i could access the reguler menu slowly but now even that is lost. i can still telnet but not sure if i should restart or wait it out.

before i lost unmenu i noticed it said it was doing a rebuild but since its still stuck on formatting i dont really understand this.

but looking at the console  it seems to be doing a parity chec.

[ Biostar A760G M2+ is my motherboard]

 

my syslog is over 1mb and i wasn't sure what was relevant so i uploaded it to mediafire

http://www.mediafire.com/?aydjb3mcdz7xwm0

 

please help : <

Just finished preclearing my 3 drives but now after starting an array with them i saw it was stuck on formatting for more then a couple of minutes. then after a couple more minutes i noticed ihave 3,509 errors on one of my data drives only after a few minutes and it was reported as disk invalid.  at first unmenu was very slow in loading the pages and now i cant access it at all. for a while after that i could access the reguler menu slowly but now even that is lost. i can still telnet but not sure if i should restart or wait it out.

before i lost unmenu i noticed it said it was doing a rebuild but since its still stuck on formatting i dont really understand this.

but looking at the console  it seems to be doing a parity chec.

[ Biostar A760G M2+ is my motherboard]

 

my syslog is over 1mb and i wasn't sure what was relevant so i uploaded it to mediafire

http://www.mediafire.com/?aydjb3mcdz7xwm0

 

please help : <

 

disk1 is having some serious connection issues.  Get a smart report for each drive -sda,sdb, and sdc- (see the troubleshooting link in my signature for instructions), post the results here, and then shutdown and check all power and data cable connections.

done. here are the 3 smart files. i replaced the sata cables and reconnected everything. what should i do now?

smart.txt

smart2.txt

smart3.txt

done. here are the 3 smart files. i replaced the sata cables and reconnected everything. what should i do now?

 

sdb - WD-WCAYY0241614 - has 137 current pending sectors.

sdc - 9XW0F69X - has 9 reallocated sectors.

 

It looks like you precleared the drives at least once, probably should have done the above 2 mentioned disk at least 1 more time.

 

The errors in the syslog are probably because of the current pending and reallocated sectors I mentioned above.

 

If this were me and there is no data on the drives, or none that you care about, I would preclear the above mentioned disks at least 1 more time (and probably the other disk also). Then I would assign a disk to disk1, go to the main page and format the one disk, rinse and repeat one at a time for the remaining data disks, and then assign the parity drive and let parity build.

*sigh* if i must. im going to preclear again, then hopefully that will solve the problem.

thanks a lot for the help. see you in around 30 hours when the preclear finishes T_T

*sigh* if i must. im going to preclear again, then hopefully that will solve the problem.

thanks a lot for the help. see you in around 30 hours when the preclear finishes T_T

 

I feel your pain, I build server and part of the burn in testing is to run preclear on all drives bought at time of purchase of the server.  I run 3 preclear cycles on every drive... think of the time.

 

I also test every SATA connection on the server... thankfully I have some smaller SATA drives I use that for.

And to think I was thinking of just skipping the preclear before i put together my server : P

 

ill be a good boy and do my preclear's. thanks for the help again and the sympathy.

You have one good drive so you can assign it as a data drive and start adding some data.

 

There has been a case or 2 where the pending sectors went away. If those numbers don't remain stable then I would RMA the drive. Actually, I'd consider RMA'ing both drives even if the reallocated sectors does remain stable.

 

Peter