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New 3TB Seagate HDD errors, preclear fine

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Hi,

 

I just added a new 3TB Seagate HDD to my 9TB existing unraid system. After a week, I upgraded to RC12a on Saturday evening to try fix and "transport endpoint error". This morning I noticed that the new HDD was booted out of the unraid system. I did two preclears on the new HDD got during thanksgiving sale of 2012. The first was a 4 pass and the second was a 2 pass (see below) and didn't show up any errors. I saw a bunch of disk write errors (have about 250 GB of data currently on the disk), log copied below. What I am not sure is whether this is the HDD problem or something unrelated .. RC12, SATA cables, connectors, etc?

 

I have a replacement 3TB WDCRed that is going through preclear .. Had to stop preclear multiple times due to "transport endpoint error". If I stopped the preclear after few cycles, is there a way for me to check the partial preclear reports? I have the array stopped to reduce any load cycles until I fix this issue.

 

Thanks for the help and suggestions!

 

Output from preclear:

===============

============================================================================

==

== S.M.A.R.T Final Report for /dev/sdc

==

Disk: /dev/sdc

smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build)

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

 

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===

Device Model:    ST3000DM001-9YN168

Serial Number:    Z1F0Y3XY

Firmware Version: CC4B

User Capacity:    3,000,592,982,016 bytes

Device is:        Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]

ATA Version is:  8

ATA Standard is:  ATA-8-ACS revision 4

Local Time is:    Wed Jan  2 03:06:22 2013 EST

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:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity

                                        was never started.

                                        Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.

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:                ( 584) seconds.

Offline data collection

capabilities:                    (0x73) SMART execute Offline immediate.

                                        Auto Offline data collection on/off support.

                                        Suspend Offline collection upon new

                                        command.

                                        No 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:        (  1) minutes.

Extended self-test routine

recommended polling time:        ( 255) minutes.

Conveyance self-test routine

recommended polling time:        (  2) minutes.

SCT capabilities:              (0x3085) SCT Status supported.

 

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10

Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  117  099  006    Pre-fail  Always      -      161655800

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003  096  096  000    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  020    Old_age  Always      -      4

  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  100  100  036    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  100  253  030    Pre-fail  Always      -      251738

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      108

10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0013  100  100  097    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  020    Old_age  Always      -      4

183 Runtime_Bad_Block      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

184 End-to-End_Error        0x0032  100  100  099    Old_age  Always      -      0

187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

188 Command_Timeout        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

189 High_Fly_Writes        0x003a  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  073  072  045    Old_age  Always      -      27 (Min/Max 19/28)

191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      3

193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      22

194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  027  040  000    Old_age  Always      -      27 (0 19 0 0)

197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0010  100  100  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

240 Head_Flying_Hours      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      200312979718251

241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      982338821226

242 Total_LBAs_Read        0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      595721622793

 

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.

==

============================================================================

 

===============

 

Error from Syslog this morning after adding it to the unraid:

======

> pwd /var/log

> grep disk8 syslog.1

Mar 24 12:57:51 Tower kernel: md: import disk8: [8,80] (sdf) ST3000DM001-9YN168_Z1F0Y3XY size: 2930266532

Mar 24 12:57:57 Tower emhttp: shcmd (48): mkdir /mnt/disk8

Mar 24 12:57:57 Tower emhttp: shcmd (49): set -o pipefail ; mount -t reiserfs -o user_xattr,acl,noatime,nodiratime /dev/md8 /mnt/disk8 |& logger

Mar 24 12:57:57 Tower emhttp: shcmd (50): chmod 777 '/mnt/disk8'

Mar 24 12:57:57 Tower emhttp: shcmd (51): chown nobody:users '/mnt/disk8'

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321032

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321040

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321048

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321056

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321064

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321072

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321080

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321088

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321096

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321104

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321112

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321120

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321128

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321136

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321144

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321152

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321160

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321168

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321176

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321184

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321192

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321200

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321208

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321216

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321224

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321232

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321240

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321248

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321256

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321264

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321272

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321280

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321288

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321296

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321304

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321312

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321320

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321328

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321336

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321344

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321352

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321360

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321368

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321376

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321384

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321392

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321400

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321408

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321416

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321424

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321432

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321440

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321448

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321456

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321464

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321472

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321480

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321488

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321496

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321504

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321512

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321520

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321528

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321536

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321544

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321552

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321560

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321568

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321576

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321584

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321592

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321600

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321608

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321616

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321624

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321632

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321640

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321648

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321656

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321664

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321672

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321680

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321688

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321696

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321704

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321712

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321720

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321728

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321736

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321744

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321752

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321760

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321768

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321776

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321784

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321792

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321800

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321808

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321816

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321824

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321832

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321840

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321848

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321856

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321864

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321872

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321880

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321888

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321896

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321904

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321912

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321920

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321928

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321936

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321944

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321952

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321960

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321968

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321976

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321984

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=321992

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=322000

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=322008

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=322016

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=322024

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=322032

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=322040

Mar 25 03:42:52 Tower kernel: md: disk8 write error, sector=322048

===========

We have no idea either...  You did not attach a syslog showing the failure, (an excerpt is usually not enough and since you only included lines with disk8 in their content, most of the information needed is completely missing.)

You included a SMART report from before the failure, and no current SMART report.

 

It could be as simple as a loose cable, or it might be a defective disk, or a bad power supply splitter, or a bad drive tray.

 

Your next step should be to get a current smart report and attach a full (possibly zipped) syslog.

 

Joe L.

  • Author

Joe - Thanks.

 

The smart report is from the unmenu "run long test"?

 

Did you want me to attach the entire syslog? There are two files, syslog and syslog.1. Is there a specific section you are looking for so that I can remove the details which point to personal details on the server?

 

P.S. Is there a way I can get the preclear reports from the completed cycles? For eg if the first 3 preclear cycles are done and I had to interrupt the 4th, the report from 3 cycles should still be there ..

Zip what you have and post the whole log

Did you want me to attach the entire syslog? There are two files, syslog and syslog.1. Is there a specific section you are looking for so that I can remove the details which point to personal details on the server?

 

CTRL+H and regex.

 

P.S. Is there a way I can get the preclear reports from the completed cycles? For eg if the first 3 preclear cycles are done and I had to interrupt the 4th, the report from 3 cycles should still be there ..

 

/tmp/smart_.*

There is no way of knowing which part of the syslog is relevant.  Aside from file names listed by the mover, the log should not contain any personal info. None of the contents can be used to exploit your system. The GUID key is useless without the physical USB device. The MAC address is not useful and the IP address is from the same pool of private addresses that everyone else in the world is using. If your using a public address then you are already being attacked and I hope you've secured the system. What personal info concerns you?

There is no way of knowing which part of the syslog is relevant.  Aside from file names listed by the mover, the log should not contain any personal info. None of the contents can be used to exploit your system. The GUID key is useless without the physical USB device. The MAC address is not useful and the IP address is from the same pool of private addresses that everyone else in the world is using. If your using a public address then you are already being attacked and I hope you've secured the system. What personal info concerns you?

 

Transmission just loves to dump unimportant bullshit to the system log, mainly including all your torrents every 5 minutes, which, may or may not be private. I believe Sab likes to do the same when a download fails, etc...

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