Hello Everyone,

 

I use the script that automatically checks parity at the beginning of every month. Up until now it has always had no parity errors. But I am now receiving this error:

 

Last checked on Sat Sep 1 11:26:06 2012 PDT, finding 62 errors.

 

I have a few questions:

 

1. There is an option "Correct any Parity-Check errors by writing the Parity disk with corrected parity." Should I use it?

2. Is this something I should be concerned about? As in a failing drive?

 

*Note*: This is an 11 disk array including a cache drive, and parity drive, it's total size is 27 terabytes. I am running version 5-beta14 because of a driver issue with the sata controller card I am using (SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8) I have not yet run a second parity check to see if it shows any more parity issues, as I wasn't sure what the next best step is.

 

Thanks for any help!

Ok, so I found this :

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

 

but it is not 100% clear to me if I should re-run the parity check, attempting to repair the parity, or not.

 

Any advice would be truly appreciated, hopefully some one out there has run into this before.

 

Thanks

Post all SMART reports.

Here is the start of the Smart Reports, I checked to make sure that the following values were 0 for all drives, and they are:

 

Reallocated_Sector_Ct    0

Current_Pending_Sector 0

sdb_Parity_Drive.txt

sdc.txt

sdd.txt

sde.txt

more reports

sdf.txt

sdg.txt

sdh.txt

sdi.txt

Still more

sdj.txt

sdk.txt

sdl.txt

sdm.txt

And the last one.

 

Thanks for looking at this with me dgaschk!

sdn_Cache_Drive.txt

Run a correcting parity check twice.

Sure thing! That will take about 16 hours, ill post the results tomorrow.

 

Thanks again!

Both Parity checks are complete and I am glad to say that they both completed without errors.

 

Thanks for the help!