March 27, 201214 yr So I want to send it back as RMA since it's less than a year old, but I wonder if I'm doing something wrong. The first time it went DISK_DSBL was after a proper powerdown, and a few hours of being shut down. Booted up to a red dot. I followed steps found in other DISK_DSBL threads: stop the array power down re-seat the connectors to the disabled drive power up see if you can get a smart report now If yes, good. if no, RMA the drive (or try a different cable/disk controller port) if smart report is possible stop the arraya un-assign the drive start the srray with it un-assigned stop the array re-assign the drive that was disabled start the array once more. This time it will re-construct the drive onto itself. It was disabled when a "write" to it failed. The re-construction onto itself should get it back to where it should be. Odd thing was it took two reboots for the rebuild to begin. Both times, the box was there to confirm that I wanted to continue with the process, and when I clicked begin, the page refreshed and nothing happened. Retry, retry, and finally it started. 36 hours later, I'm good. All data is accessible, etc. Today, I'm rebooting again (against my own minor reservations) to see if I can prevent spinup when opening a folder with cache_dirs installed. When it comes back online, the disk is red again. smartctl -t short -d ata /dev/sdg: Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) Before I rebuild a second time or wait for a replacement disk and rebuild then, I want to find out if I'm the problem here. Thanks. Server: OS 4.7 WD 2TB EARS connected to a SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8. syslog-2012-03-27.zip
March 27, 201214 yr Author Post a SMART report. Couldn't pull one: smartctl -t short -d ata /dev/sdg: Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
March 27, 201214 yr Author Yeah, no luck. The disk is now removed. What's going to occur if I power up with that disk no longer in the case? I'd like to have access to the data on the other disks if possible.
March 27, 201214 yr Yeah, no luck. The disk is now removed. What's going to occur if I power up with that disk no longer in the case? I'd like to have access to the data on the other disks if possible. As long as you have a parity disk, you'll have access to all the data on all the disks, including the removed one. the removed disk will be simulated by accessing and re-constructing its contents from all the other remaining disks.
March 27, 201214 yr If a second disk fails you will lose data. It's safest to keep the server off until the replacement is ready.
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