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Read Errors During Parity Check (Drive switches letters | tagged device was (sdh) is now (sdj))

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Hello,

 

I have my parity scheduled to run quarterly. My parity check kicked off this morning, and a couple of hours in to it I received a notice that Disk 5 has been disabled due to read errors and has been assigned a new drive letter in unRAID. The data appears to be in tact, and I am able to rebuild the drive from existing parity, but the drive letter being switched mid parity check is concerning

 

Normally my server works perfectly fine, and I do not have read errors

 

7 of my drives are Seagate Exos 16TB drives. 1 of the drives is a Seagate Ironwolf Pro

The drive that is showing errors is an Exos

 

I have recently replaced my SAS to SATA breakout cables and the power cables on all the drives.

 

I have posted my diagnostics. If someone can please tell me what is going on I would really appreciate it

 

Update: I just tried a data reconstruction on the drive and now I have 2 drives in error states. Uploading another diagnostics file

 

No such file or directory (2): tagged device ST16000NM000E-3NV101_ZX25HQ5B was (sdh) is now (sdj)

 

 

diagnostics.zip

new diagnostics.zip

Edited by loyalsnoopdoge

Solved by JorgeB

  • loyalsnoopdoge changed the title to Read Errors During Parity Check (Drive switches letters | tagged device was (sdh) is now (sdj))
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  • Solution

Disks are dropping offline, this is typically a power/connection issue.

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7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Disks are dropping offline, this is typically a power/connection issue.

Thanks for taking a look. Are my issues possibly relate to the issues from this thread with Eos drives?

 

 

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Doesn't look related, since the issues didn't happen after a spin up.

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4 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Doesn't look related, since the issues didn't happen after a spin up.

Thank you! 

 

I am interested in mitigating this issue in the future. The SAS to SATA breakout cables and SATA power cables are all relatively new. Is there anything else that could be causing an issue like this?


Is it possible that the drives spinning up over the few months in between parity checks could partially loosen the cables?

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11 hours ago, loyalsnoopdoge said:

Is it possible that the drives spinning up over the few months in between parity checks could partially loosen the cables?

Don't think so, but cables can go bad or start having connection issues without an apparent reason, seen it happen multiple times.

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Messed with the cables and had a successful rebuild. You can mark as closed

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