October 18, 20241 yr performed an extended offline test after parity check was done, smart for disk 6 seems okay -- was it a controller issue? diagnostics attached server2018-diagnostics-20241017-1400.zip
October 18, 20241 yr Author Should I switch to a more premium cable? Using this: "CableCreation Internal HD Mini SAS Cable 1.6 Feet/0.5M, Internal HD Mini SAS (SFF-8643 Host) - 4 x SATA (Target) Cable, SFF-8643 to 4 x SATA Cable for Controller, 4 Sata Connect to Hard Drive"
October 18, 20241 yr Community Expert Looks more like a power/connection problem, check/replace cables and if the emulated disk is still mounting and contents look correct, you can rebuild on top.
November 15, 20241 yr Author Following up on my issue with Disk6 repeatedly disabling during parity checks, I’ve found a solution by switching to a new drive cage. I replaced my old drive cage, the iStarUSA BPN-DE350SS, with the SilverStone Technology FS305-12G (SST-FS305-12G). Since the swap, I successfully completed rebuilds without any drive issues, which suggests the old cage was… old. Five years old.
November 16, 20241 yr Author I may have spoken too soon. During a data rebuild of a new disk6, disk7 went into dsbl state. Even though disk7 is in the new SilverStone cage. (and disk6 and 3 other disks) Running extended smart test on disk7 now.... server2018-diagnostics-20241116-0319.zip
November 16, 20241 yr Community Expert It's not logged as a disk problem and SMART looks fine, so most likely a power/connection issue.
November 17, 20241 yr Author Side question: Why do the smart .txt reports have "2023-12-01" in each of their filenames when the diagnostic report has a datestamp of 20241116/17? What does 2023-12-01 indicate? Also 20 minutes into rebuilding disk7, disk1 disabled and moved its device name from sdj to sdl and appeared in UD. Attempts at running an extended smart test on sdl in the command line (unRAID WebGUI didn't show any response when attempting short tests there, first under the array section as sdj hen when I noticed it was also appearing in the UD section as sdl, so switched to command line) result in "Extended offline Interrupted (host reset)" - two times. I guess I'll wait until disk7 is done rebuilding before running an extended smart test on disk1. 2024-11-17 12:48:17 smartctl -t long /dev/sdl I've been searching online for replacements for my CableCreation Mini SAS (SFF-8643) to 4x SATA Cable, 0.5m but it's hard finding quality brands at such a short length. StarTech does a 1m but 0.5m fits more suitably in my case. Also waiting for rebuilds to finish before attempting to put in a new power supply to see if that helps. server2018-diagnostics-20241117-1545.zip
November 19, 20241 yr Author My waiting for the rebuild to finish is complicated by the fact that the unRAID WebUI is frozen with regards to stating the progress of the disk7 rebuild. So it might be finished or ... ? server2018-diagnostics-20241118-2046.zip
November 19, 20241 yr Author 1 hour ago, oh-tomo said: My waiting for the rebuild to finish is complicated by the fact that the unRAID WebUI is frozen with regards to stating the progress of the disk7 rebuild. So it might be finished or ... ? server2018-diagnostics-20241118-2046.zip 209.2 kB · 0 downloads Nov 18 05:48:17 Server2018 kernel: md: sync done. time=98913sec Nov 18 05:48:17 Server2018 kernel: md: recovery thread: exit status: 0 I guess with the rebuild progress frozen in the webGUI, these lines in the syslog indicate that it is done? Usually an email would be sent out when done but I guess that is also frozen.
November 19, 20241 yr Community Expert 5 hours ago, oh-tomo said: these lines in the syslog indicate that it is done? Yes.
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