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A problem on top of another problem-parity disk failing while upgrading another


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(Running 4.7)

Had a couple of smaller disks in my array (500gb) and went to swap one out for a 2tb that I just picked up. Had just run a parity check and it showed no errors, so I pulled the baby drive and popped in the larger one. 30 hours later, parity drive shows a couple thousand errors - so the array was extremely unhappy to say the least.

 

Syslog shows a bunch of "Tower kernel: handle_stripe read error: 21009472/0, count: 1

Mar  5 18:07:48 Tower kernel: md: disk0 read error" lines and SMART shows several "Pre-Fail" and "Old_age" warnings" that I assume are for disk 0

 

Gotta be the parity drive-yes?

 

Problem is, I can't just pop in the baby drive and replace the parity drive with a new one as I get a "replacement disk is too small" in reference to the 500gb drive. I'm sure there's a command or two that will allow me to do this, but I want to make sure before I hit one of those "I'm sure I want to do this-no really, I'm REALLY sure I want to do this" check boxes...

 

Anyway - thanks for the help on this!

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One thought I had was to replace the parity drive and put the baby (500gb) drive back in its slot. That would allow parity to be rebuilt on a new disk and then I could go back and swap the baby drive for a 2tb one.

 

No love - 2 red balls (Too many wrong and/or missing disks!) on the two drives :(

 

Any thoughts? Ideas? I'd swap out both drives at the same time and then just copy the data from the baby drive back onto the array at a later date - but I'd imagine I'd keep getting the same error as above...

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(Running 4.7)

...Had just run a parity check and it showed no errors, so I pulled the baby drive and popped in the larger one.

 

30 hours later, parity drive shows a couple thousand errors - so the array was extremely unhappy to say the least...

There are a few steps left out between these 2 sentences. Could you fill in the details a little?

 

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There are a few steps left out between these 2 sentences. Could you fill in the details a little?

 

Well, just wanted to update the size of the array by getting rid of the "baby".

Removed the 500gb disk and replaced it with a 2tb.

Fired up the array and it automatically formatted the drive and began restoring the data.

 

After it "finished" 30 hours later, there were several thousand hours in the syslog-(as listed in the first post)

 

I don't think I left out any steps-as that's all I did.

 

(Just to update this again - popped in a new parity drive and it won't accept that either as it's looking for the old one...

Red dot on the new parity drive and orange on the other new drive)

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Couldn't add the old disk (error msg - disk too small) but here's a SMART report from the parity drive:

 

smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)

Copyright © 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net

 

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Model Family:    Western Digital Caviar Green family

Device Model:    WDC WD20EADS-00S2B0

Serial Number:    WD-WCAVY2631433

Firmware Version: 01.00A01

User Capacity:    2,000,398,934,016 bytes

Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]

ATA Version is:  8

ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated

Local Time is:    Thu Mar  7 09:15:59 2013 PST

SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.

SMART support is: Enabled

 

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===

SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

 

General SMART Values:

Offline data collection status:  (0x84) Offline data collection activity

was suspended by an interrupting command from host.

Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.

Self-test execution status:      (  0) The previous self-test routine completed

without error or no self-test has ever

been run.

Total time to complete Offline

data collection: (41160) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.

Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

Suspend Offline collection upon new

command.

Offline surface scan supported.

Self-test supported.

Conveyance Self-test supported.

Selective Self-test supported.

SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering

power-saving mode.

Supports SMART auto save timer.

Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.

General Purpose Logging supported.

Short self-test routine

recommended polling time: (  2) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes.

Conveyance self-test routine

recommended polling time: (  5) minutes.

SCT capabilities:       (0x303f) SCT Status supported.

SCT Feature Control supported.

SCT Data Table supported.

 

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x002f  200  200  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027  148  144  021    Pre-fail  Always      -      9583

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  099  099  000    Old_age  Always      -      1600

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  200  200  140    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x002e  100  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  071  071  000    Old_age  Always      -      21478

10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      235

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      75

193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  195  195  000    Old_age  Always      -      16918

194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  127  095  000    Old_age  Always      -      25

196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032  199  199  000    Old_age  Always      -      450

198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  200  200  000    Old_age  Offline      -      207

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x0008  192  190  000    Old_age  Offline      -      1732

 

SMART Error Log Version: 1

No Errors Logged

 

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1

No self-tests have been logged.  [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]

 

 

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1

SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS

    1        0        0  Not_testing

    2        0        0  Not_testing

    3        0        0  Not_testing

    4        0        0  Not_testing

    5        0        0  Not_testing

Selective self-test flags (0x0):

  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.

If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

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thanks Joe  - I think that did the trick.

Popped in the original baby data drive, a new parity drive, reconfigured the array (initconfig) and am happily sitting at 63% with the new Parity-Sync. Once this finishes sometime tonight, I'll upgrade the little data drive, rebuild the data there and be a very happy camper :)

Thanks again!

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