April 28, 201412 yr Came home today to find one of my drives red balled. I noticed the read and write numbers in the web GUI were huge numbers for this drive, like 10+ digits long. I'm not sure if there is any maintenance or anything that runs in the back ground that would cause that but there was nothing going on on my end - no reads or writes initiated by me since the last time I looked at it and all was OK. I'm working through the instructions in the wiki. I've attached the SMART report and I'll wait for further instruction here. Thanks for any help! Ryan smart.txt
April 28, 201412 yr Came home today to find one of my drives red balled. I noticed the read and write numbers in the web GUI were huge numbers for this drive, like 10+ digits long. I'm not sure if there is any maintenance or anything that runs in the back ground that would cause that but there was nothing going on on my end - no reads or writes initiated by me since the last time I looked at it and all was OK. I'm working through the instructions in the wiki. I've attached the SMART report and I'll wait for further instruction here. Thanks for any help! Ryan Attaching a copy of your syslog will help us to determine what "write" activity failed. Joe L.
April 28, 201412 yr Author I shut down to have a look at cables and stuff.... It appears the syslog start fresh at boot though. Unless past syslogs are stored somewhere? I've attached what I have. syslog.zip
April 28, 201412 yr SMART report looks ok. Next time copy the syslog before shutting down or rebooting. See here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting#What_do_I_do_if_I_get_a_red_ball_next_to_a_hard_disk.3F
April 29, 201412 yr Author Ok I'm a little panicky now! I ran reiserfsck and it came up zero errors, so I figured this was just one of those things and figured the drive is fine. I started following the directions in this thread (last post) to reinstate the drive. After I unassigned the red balled drive communication with the server stopped in the web gui, rebooting in putty was the only thing that responded. When it came back up I am showing NO drives assigned to the array! What do I do now?
April 30, 201412 yr Author I found a screen shot of where my drives were assigned so I went ahead and reassigned the drives and started the array. I selected trust parity with the thought that I don't want the system reconstructing the parity drive if indeed there were issues with the red balled disk as I'd need the parity intact to rebuild the problem drive. No writes were made to the array though out any of this so I'm hoping everything will remain unchanged until I figure out if there really are any issues or not.
April 30, 201412 yr Follow this procedure to rebuild the disk: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Troubleshooting#Re-enable_the_drive
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