Hello,

 

So today I got my first red ball for Disk1 on my UnRaid server. It said there were about 120 errors. Ive attached the syslog as I'm not really sure what to do at this point. The drive starts up and shows up in the system so I'm not sure if its failing or just had a bad dad. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Also when ever I try and run SMART on the drive I get this error:

 

smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

syslog.txt

Hello,

 

So today I got my first red ball for Disk1 on my UnRaid server. It said there were about 120 errors. Ive attached the syslog as I'm not really sure what to do at this point. The drive starts up and shows up in the system so I'm not sure if its failing or just had a bad dad. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Also when ever I try and run SMART on the drive I get this error:

 

smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)

A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options.

That error typically indicates the drive has stopped responding.

 

It could be the drive itself, or a power cable, or an SATA cable (either loose or intermittent) or a disk controller card.

 

The "red" indicator is because a "write" to the drive failed.  (it is now being simulated by parity and reads from all the other disks in your array.)  It will NOT be added back into the array on its own as it is guaranteed to be out-of-date (remember, a write to it failed)

 

See here in the wiki:

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_does_the_Red_Ball_mean.3F