seanant Posted December 9, 2011 Posted December 9, 2011 All, I lost my power supply right around the San Diego black out couple months back. Since then my unRAID has been down. The last couple of weeks I've been testing and trouble shooting using the FAQ and reading the posts. Well now I need to turn to the experts to ask for some assistance. My syslog file is attached. If you need anything from me please let me know. I thank all of you ahead of time for reading my post and helping me recover from this. The gist of the problem is disk #5 starts out blue with the array in stopped state with stop; initiate drive. Then I click start and the parity disk and #5 both turn red. I've done all the smartctl tests on the drives with no errors. The drives on my 3ware 9600 are not replying to the smartmon queries but the parity disk does. Here's an example of the reply: root@Tower:/# smartctl -T permissive /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,1 smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ WARNING - NO DEVICE FOUND ON 3WARE CONTROLLER (disk 1) Note: /dev/sdX many need to be replaced with /dev/tweN or /dev/twaN Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported. A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. root@Tower:/# smartctl -T verypermissive /dev/twa0 -d 3ware,1 smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ WARNING - NO DEVICE FOUND ON 3WARE CONTROLLER (disk 1) Note: /dev/sdX many need to be replaced with /dev/tweN or /dev/twaN Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported. Checking for SMART support by trying SMART ENABLE command. Error SMART Enable failed: Input/output error SMART ENABLE failed - this establishes that this device lacks SMART functionality. SMART Disabled. Use option -s with argument 'on' to enable it. ####################################### I enabled and this: SMART support is: Ambiguous - ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE words 82-83 don't show if SMART supported. Checking for SMART support by trying SMART ENABLE command. Error SMART Enable failed: Input/output error SMART ENABLE failed - this establishes that this device lacks SMART functionality. ####################################### Then forced offline test : === 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 152 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Fri Dec 9 03:42:27 2011 ####################################### What are my options at this point? Im happy with losing one drive and recovering the other 7 and move on. R/ Chuck
Rajahal Posted December 11, 2011 Posted December 11, 2011 There's no syslog file attached. Has the 3Ware card worked in the past, or is this a new piece of hardware? If the card has a JBOD or NO-RAID mode, use that. You need to test the drives individually. If the card doesn't pass through SMART info (which seems to be the case), then you will need to connect each hard drive directly to the motherboard and attempt to run SMART from there. Please post the results if you have any questions about how to interpret them. Remember that just because a drive passes a SMART test doesn't mean that the drive is completely healthy.
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