Hi everyone,

I have a problem that happens often lately. Unexpectedly, a data drive becomes red-balled and I have to rebuild data (which is no small feat, i have 18 disks on a SATA I Mobo). It happened again yesterday  so I proceeded as before.

When I came back home today I saw that the data rebuild had been stopped and the drive was still red-balled. Additionally, at a point, I saw 3 more drives being red-balled. I restarted and I saw that only the original drive was still red-balled.

The only info I can add is that the first red-balled drive and the consequent 3 were all on the same miniSAS-to-4SATA cable so I think this may be the culprit, but, still, this behavior is strange.

 

How could 3 drives be "de-red-balled"?

Any advice as to how I should proceed in general? (Currently I am trying to rebuild data again)

Additionally, do you know a good place in Europe where I could find such cables? (I live in Greece)

 

Thanks for any help.

 

PS :I erased some of the syslog because there were the same lines repeating thousands of times

syslog-2013-02-28_limited.zip

Has a drive been added lately? What model PSU?

Has a drive been added lately? What model PSU?

 

The PSU is a very good quality 850W one: Corsair CMPSU-850HXEU PSU.

 

I have added recently a new parity drive 3TB in order to use new 3TB data drives in the future. The previous 2TB parity drive replaced a 1TB data drive.