Hello everyone,

 

This morning I woke up to a drive disabled on my server. I did some searching here and based on what I read, i shutdown my server, switched cabling, powered back on, and the SMART report says it passed. I am at work right now and cant post the report but can if needed. Should i trust the drive is fine? My other option, I have been meaning to pick up a new drive anyway. I could get a new one and replace it and then just RMA this drive to be sure.

Can someone who understands these look at it and tell me if you think this drive is ok? I replaced the disabled drive and it is rebuilding now and if i need to I will RMA this one. But if its ok I will preclear it a couple times and put it back in use.

 

Thanks

smart_report_disk9.txt

Can someone who understands these look at it and tell me if you think this drive is ok? I replaced the disabled drive and it is rebuilding now and if i need to I will RMA this one. But if its ok I will preclear it a couple times and put it back in use.

 

Thanks

Preclear it, post the results of the preclear. It's probably ok, but without knowing why the disk red balled, it's hard to say. A syslog from the time period that failed the drive would be helpful. Did you save the syslog before you shut down the machine?

Ok, i replaced the drive, did the rebuild, which ended fine and then I started a parity check. Same disk number went to disabled. I actually checked the syslog this time and it looks like there are tons of read errors on 3 disks. Im not home to confirm this, but if i had to guess, the 3 that have errors are all on my SASLP-MV8, and are the only 3 drives attacked to it, which narrows down my problem.

 

Im attaching my syslog, can someone take a look and confirm if what I saw is correct? (this is from just after I started the parity check and when the errors begin, log was too big. If you need more I have it)

 

Thanks

syslog1.txt

What would I look for in the log to see if those drives with errors are the ones attached to the SASLP card? Im sure theres somewhere that the drivers are installed and all that stuff happens? Or is that not possible to determine without opening the case and checking cables and serial numbers?

Ok, I got home from work, opened up the server and verified that the 3 drives with problems are all connected to the same card via the same breakout cable.

 

Could use some guidance here please. Since i know my original drive is fine, i kind of trust the data on that one more than the new one. How does one go about placing that drive back into the array and going back? SAB may have grabbed a few shows last night that would be the only thing new since this started. No problem replacing those.

 

Please someone with more experience than me help me out here.

 

I should also note that when i stopped the array, Disk9 says not installed, disk7 says missing and disk0 also says missing.

It sounds like you think your HBA card could be the problem. Why not try swopping disk9, 7 or 0 onto your motherboard port to verify.