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Ok.. I'll try the reseat and switch the cables around...  The drives are being cleared in a separate machine.  so it's not my main UnRaid

machine.

 

Interestingly..  Even on this separate machine I'm seeing much slower reads on the post read.  I still am baffled by this.

I'm getting about 40MB/s calculated while the test says 84MB/s

Post Read in progress on /dev/sda: 75% complete.
(  1,501,936,128,000  of  2,000,398,934,016  bytes read )at 84.3 MB/s
Disk Temperature: 35C,
Using Block size of  8,225,280  Bytes
Next report at 100%
Calculated Read Speed: 40 MB/s
Elapsed Time of current cycle: 10:15:27
Total Elapsed time: 22:31:51

All three remaining drives exhibit this...  The pre-read and the zeroing all were fast...

Pre Read finished on /dev/sdc
(  2,000,388,096,000  of  2,000,398,934,016  bytes read)
Pre Read Elapsed Time: 6:15:27
Total Elapsed Time: 6:15:32
Disk Temperature: -->41<--C,
Using Block size of  8,225,280  Bytes
Calculated Read Speed - 88 MB/s

Zeroing Disk /dev/sdc Done.
Zeroing Elapsed Time: 5:55:17
Total Elapsed Time: 12:10:52
Disk Temperature: -->42<--C,
Calculated Write Speed: 93 MB/s

 

 

 

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Just wanted someone to quickly check my preclear results from a WD EARS drive (with jumper over 7 & 8 )

 

looks ok to me (this is my first time using pre-clear)... but if anyone can see anything strange then please let me know. I did notice this (see attached log):

 

Nov 28 18:14:28 Tower kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdg, sector 2563489960

Nov 28 18:14:28 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdg, logical block 320436245

 

 

This is the summary:

 

Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00MVWB0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Serial Number: WD-WMAZA1634XXX
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Firmware Version: 51.0AB51
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ATA Version is: 8
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Local Time is: Mon Nov 29 23:05:05 2010 GMT
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART support is: Enabled
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: General SMART Values:
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Offline data collection status: (0x84)^IOffline data collection activity
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwas suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Self-test execution status: ( 0)^IThe previous self-test routine completed
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^Iwithout error or no self-test has ever 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^Ibeen run.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Total time to complete Offline 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: data collection: ^I^I (37500) seconds.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Offline data collection
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: capabilities: ^I^I^I (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^IAuto Offline data collection on/off support.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^ISuspend Offline collection upon new
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^Icommand.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^IOffline surface scan supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelf-test supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^IConveyance Self-test supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^ISelective Self-test supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART capabilities: (0x0003)^ISaves SMART data before entering
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^Ipower-saving mode.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^ISupports SMART auto save timer.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Error logging capability: (0x01)^IError logging supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^IGeneral Purpose Logging supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Short self-test routine 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 2) minutes.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Extended self-test routine
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 255) minutes.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Conveyance self-test routine
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: recommended polling time: ^I ( 5) minutes.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SCT capabilities: ^I (0x3035)^ISCT Status supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Feature Control supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ^I^I^I^I^ISCT Data Table supported.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 253 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 1125
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 10
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 33
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 8
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 7
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 15
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART Error Log Version: 1
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: No Errors Logged
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 1 0 0 Not_testing
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 2 0 0 Not_testing
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 3 0 0 Not_testing
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 4 0 0 Not_testing
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 5 0 0 Not_testing
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: Selective self-test flags (0x0):
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-finish[7312]: 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ============================================================================
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ==
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Disk /dev/sdg has been successfully precleared
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ==
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ==
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 8:10:46 (67 MB/s)
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 9:17:46 (59 MB/s)
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 16:21:09 (33 MB/s)
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Last Cycle's Total Time : 33:50:49
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ==
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Total Elapsed Time 33:50:49
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ==
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Disk Start Temperature: 15C
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ==
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: == Current Disk Temperature: 21C, 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ==
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ============================================================================
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: 19,20c19,20
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: < Offline data collection status: (0x80)^IOffline data collection activity
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: < ^I^I^I^I^Iwas never started.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ---
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: > Offline data collection status: (0x84)^IOffline data collection activity
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: > ^I^I^I^I^Iwas suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: 54c54
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ---
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: 58c58
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ---
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: 63c63
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: < 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ---
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 15
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: 67c67
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: < 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ---
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: ============================================================================
Nov 29 23:05:05 Tower preclear_disk-diff[7325]: 

 

excerpt from full log is attached.

 

thanks

PreClear_Excerpt_from_syslog.txt

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Quick check on my results before I add the drive to the array.

 

S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear

note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

54c54

<  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  100  100  006    Pre-fail  Always      -      124774

---

>  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  119  099  006    Pre-fail  Always      -      215099399

58c58

<  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  100  253  030    Pre-fail  Always      -      111

---

>  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  100  253  030    Pre-fail  Always      -      479189

66,67c66,67

< 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  075  073  045    Old_age  Always      -      25 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/25)

< 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  100  100  000    Old_age  Always     

---

> 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  077  073  045    Old_age  Always      -      23 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/27)

> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  047  041  000    Old_age  Always     

71,73c71,73

< 240 Head_Flying_Hours      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      103835129348108

< 241 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0

< 242 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      97912

---

> 240 Head_Flying_Hours      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      48546015346729

> 241 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      833009932

> 242 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      2000042141

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

 

Smart report:

ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE

  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  119  099  006    Pre-fail  Always      -      215142716

  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0003  100  100  000    Pre-fail  Always      -      0

  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  100  100  020    Old_age  Always      -      7

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

  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  100  253  030    Pre-fail  Always      -      479582

  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      35

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

12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  100  100  020    Old_age  Always      -      7

183 Unknown_Attribute      0x0032  098  098  000    Old_age  Always      -      2

184 Unknown_Attribute      0x0032  100  100  099    Old_age  Always      -      0

187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

188 Unknown_Attribute      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  078  073  045    Old_age  Always      -      22 (Lifetime Min/Max 21/27)

194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  022  040  000    Old_age  Always      -      22 (0 19 0 0)

195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  046  041  000    Old_age  Always      -      215142716

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      -      160597417132074

241 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      833009932

242 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline      -      161212931

 

1 and 7 look a little off to me, but I'm not sure if its cause for concern. Thanks in advance.

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You've apparently not seen any of the posts on how to interpret the results.

 

The "raw" column values have meaning only to the manufacturer in most cases.

 

For attribute 1 the normalized value is nowhere near the failure threshold.

For attribute 7 the normalized value is still set at its starting point from the factory with a new value of 253.

 

Look at the value for "head flying hours" as an example of a value that has no meaning to us.  Even if measured in billionths of a second the raw values would make no sense. (certainly the flying hours would not decrease, and the raw value has decreased)

 

Your disk looks fine.  There are no re-allocated sectors or sectors pending re-allocation.

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I just finished preclearing my Black Friday drive :)

 

Seagate 2TB model: ST32000542AS updated to CC35 firmware

 

I'm still not certain which part of the results should be looked at so I posted an excerpt of what looked to be important.  I also am attaching the full results in case I left something out.

 

Please let me know if all is well.

 

Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Disk /dev/sdb has been successfully precleared
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ==
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Ran 1 preclear-disk cycle
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ==
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time  : 6:54:17 (80 MB/s)
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Last Cycle's Zeroing time   : 6:58:08 (79 MB/s)
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 14:31:47 (38 MB/s)
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Last Cycle's Total Time     : 28:25:16
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ==
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Total Elapsed Time 28:25:16
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ==
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Disk Start Temperature: 27C
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ==
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: == Current Disk Temperature: 29C, 
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ==
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ============================================================================
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: 54c54
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: <   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       9935
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ---
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: >   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   119   100   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       211695025
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: 58c58
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: <   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       21
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ---
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: >   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       457994
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: 64c64
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: < 188 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ---
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: > 188 Unknown_Attribute       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: 66,67c66,67
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   073   071   045    Old_age   Always       -       27 (Lifetime Min/Max 26/27)
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ---
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   071   069   045    Old_age   Always       -       29 (Lifetime Min/Max 26/31)
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   051   047   000    Old_age   Always       
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: 70,73c70,73
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: < 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: < 240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       89073326751757
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: < 241 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: < 242 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       923
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ---
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: > 240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       169973330739242
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: > 241 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       878605953
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: > 242 Unknown_Attribute       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3328787425 
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]: ============================================================================
Dec  2 23:15:40 media preclear_disk-diff[10348]:  

Seagate_Results.txt

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Joe,

 

I'm trying to preclear 4 2T samsung drives.

3 are chugging along but one failed right after zeroing.

 

I grabbed the first smart report as the drive, now, is un responsive.

 

There are some errors reported.

 

 

 

I'll try power cycling once the other drives finish (about 2 hours or so) and see if the drive comes back.. and grab another SMART report... but my guess is this drive might be a dud!

Do you concur?

I'm guessing it could just as easily be a loose/bad cable to the drive.  But do not touch them now...  Only do that after stopping the array cleanly and then powering down.  (It could be either the power or data cable, or, if in a drive tray, it might not be seated well in the connectors.)

 

Joe L.

 

Crud!  The last drive, after power cycling, passed the preclear test..  but there are some more errors.  My guess is I should RMA this drive.

There are 28 ATA Errors.  There were 15 before the 2nd preclear attempt.  Here is an excerpt.  Full smart report attached.

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   100   100   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  2 Throughput_Performance  0x0026   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0023   067   066   025    Pre-fail  Always       -       10113
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   252   252   010    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   252   252   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0024   252   252   015    Old_age   Offline      -       0
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   252   252   051    Old_age   Always       -       0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4
181 Unknown_Attribute       0x0022   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate      0x0022   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x003a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   252   252   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0036   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       31
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x002a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
223 Load_Retry_Count        0x0032   252   252   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
225 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       4

SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 28 (device log contains only the most recent five errors) <--------------------------------------
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features Register [HEX]
SC = Sector Count Register [HEX]
SN = Sector Number Register [HEX]
CL = Cylinder Low Register [HEX]
CH = Cylinder High Register [HEX]
DH = Device/Head Register [HEX]
DC = Device Command Register [HEX]
ER = Error register [HEX]
ST = Status register [HEX]
Powered_Up_Time is measured from power on, and printed as
DDd+hh:mm:SS.sss where DD=days, hh=hours, mm=minutes,
SS=sec, and sss=millisec. It "wraps" after 49.710 days.

Error 28 occurred at disk power-on lifetime: 50 hours (2 days + 2 hours)
  When the command that caused the error occurred, the device was active or idle.

  After command completion occurred, registers were:
  ER ST SC SN CL CH DH
  -- -- -- -- -- -- --
  84 51 00 00 4f c2 00  Error: ABRT

 

???

What do you think?  I moved the drive to a different cable and power cord for the 2nd pre-clear try.. So it's not a cabling issue..

 

Thanks,

 

Jim

smart_start3805.txt

smart_start3805.txt

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I'm going to start reading through the 30 pages of comments here trying to understand my results.

 

While doing so, in case someone wants to review the differences in my two new seagate 5900 Black Friday drives, I would be happy to listen.  (Both were upgraded to CE35 firmware prior to being installed in the unraid server)

 

Thanks folks :)

 

 

sda:

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: 54c54

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: <   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       56892

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: ---

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: >   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   116   099   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       223497429

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: 58c58

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: <   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       148

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: ---

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: >   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       192141

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: 64c64

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: < 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: ---

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: > 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: 66,67c66,67

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   070   068   045    Old_age   Always       -       30 (Lifetime Min/Max 28/30)

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: ---

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   067   064   045    Old_age   Always       -       33 (Lifetime Min/Max 28/36)

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   048   039   000    Old_age   Always       

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: 70,73c70,73

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: < 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: < 240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3998614552630

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: < 241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       8

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: < 242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       14705

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: ---

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: > 240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       164535902142547

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: > 241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3906080672

Dec  5 04:02:13 Tower preclear_disk-diff[5090]: > 242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3669296420 

 

sdb:

 

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear 

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: 54c54

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: <   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   100   100   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       59966

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: ---

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: >   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x000f   120   099   006    Pre-fail  Always       -       242755498

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: 58c58

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: <   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       147

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: ---

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: >   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000f   100   253   030    Pre-fail  Always       -       187276

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: 64c64

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: < 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: ---

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: > 188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: 66,67c66,67

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   070   069   045    Old_age   Always       -       30 (Lifetime Min/Max 28/30)

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: ---

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022   067   064   045    Old_age   Always       -       33 (Lifetime Min/Max 28/36)

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   053   040   000    Old_age   Always       

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: 70,73c70,73

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: < 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: < 240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       79701708111925

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: < 241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       8

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: < 242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       14999

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: ---

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: > 240 Head_Flying_Hours       0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       125340030599250

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: > 241 Total_LBAs_Written      0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3906116822

Dec  5 03:40:01 Tower preclear_disk-diff[4172]: > 242 Total_LBAs_Read         0x0000   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       3713874269 

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So I got my server built on Thursday and started the preclear on both of my drives.  Here are the diff results on each drive.  They look good to me, although sda has a weird error:

 

Offline data collection status:  (0x84)      Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host.

 

I did a search on the forum but didn't see anything specific to this message.  Here's the rest.

 

sda:

 

root@Lounsbury-unRAID:/tmp# diff smart_start1376 smart_finish1376
19,20c19,20
< Offline data collection status:  (0x80)       Offline data collection activity
<                                       was never started.
---
> Offline data collection status:  (0x84)       Offline data collection activity
>                                       was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
54c54
<   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   100   253   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
---
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
58c58
<   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
---
>   7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
63c63
< 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       26
---
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       27
67c67
< 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
---
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

 

sdb:

 

sdb

root@Lounsbury-unRAID:/boot# diff smart_start8573 smart_finish8573
54c54
<   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   100   253   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
---
>   1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
63c63
< 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       24
---
> 193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       25
67c67
< 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
---
> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0

 

Also I've got these errors in the syslog after sdb finished.  Everything from the SMART report looks good, so I'm not sure what happened here.

 

Dec  3 16:30:56 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:30:56 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:30:56 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:30:56 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:30:56 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:30:56 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:31:27 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:31:27 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:31:27 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:31:27 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:31:27 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:31:27 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:31:58 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:31:58 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:31:58 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:31:58 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:31:58 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:31:58 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:32:29 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: NCQ disabled due to excessive errors (Errors)
Dec  3 16:32:29 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:32:29 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:32:29 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:32:29 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:32:29 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:32:29 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:33:00 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:00 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:33:00 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:00 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:33:31 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:31 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:33:31 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:31 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3876852784 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606598 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606599 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606600 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606601 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606602 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606603 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606604 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606605 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606606 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:33:32 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606607 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:02 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/100:PIO4 (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:34:02 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:02 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:34:02 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:02 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:34:33 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: limiting speed to UDMA/33:PIO4 (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:34:33 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:33 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2.00: failed command: READ DMA EXT (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:34:33 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel:          res 40/00:00:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout) (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:33 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: ata2: hard resetting link (Minor Issues)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 3876852528 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606566 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606567 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606568 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606569 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606570 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606571 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606572 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606573 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606574 (Errors)
Dec  3 16:34:34 Lounsbury-unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 484606575 (Errors)

 

Attached are the SMART start and finish logs.  Can anyone provide any feedback?  Thanks in advance!

smart_start1376.txt

smart_finish1376.txt

smart_start8573.txt

smart_finish8573.txt

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Here are my results sorry about the dual post.

 

S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear

note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem

54c54

<  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  100  100  006    Pre-fail  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      16748

---

>  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  119  100  006    Pre-fail  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      217296903

58c58

<  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  100  253  030    Pre-fail  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      20

---

>  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000f  100  253  030    Pre-fail  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      249367

64c64

< 188 Unknown_Attribute      0x0032  100  253  000    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      0

---

> 188 Unknown_Attribute      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      0

66,67c66,67

< 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  079  073  045    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      21 (Lifetime Min/Max 20/21)

< 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  100  100  000    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                 

---

> 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  077  073  045    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      23 (Lifetime Min/Max 20/25)

> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  050  045  000    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                 

70,73c70,73

< 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  200  253  000    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      0

< 240 Head_Flying_Hours      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline                                                                                                                                                                  -      241424406675462

< 241 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline                                                                                                                                                                  -      0

< 242 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline                                                                                                                                                                  -      1380

---

> 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  200  200  000    Old_age  Always                                                                                                                                                                    -      0

> 240 Head_Flying_Hours      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline                                                                                                                                                                  -      241952687652903

> 241 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline                                                                                                                                                                  -      4185498537

> 242 Unknown_Attribute      0x0000  100  253  000    Old_age  Offline                                                                                                                                                                  -      547116347

 

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I just purchased 2x WD20EARS drives from Amazon.  When I received them, I immediately jumpered 7-8 prior to installing into my unRaid.  I tried putting 1 drive in as my new parity drive, replacing a 500GB that I previously had in there as parity.  Everything seemed to boot ok and unRaid recognized it, but when it did the re-build of the parity after hitting Start, that's when I seem to be having problems.  It was poking along at something ridiculous like 20k/sec and would have taken 3 months (this is probably an exaggeration) to complete.  When checking the syslog, I'm getting absurd amounts of this message:

 

Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3: drained 32768 bytes to clear DRQ.
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3.00: failed command: READ DMA
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3.00: cmd c8/00:80:60:68:37/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 65536 in
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel:          res ff/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff/ff:ff:ff:ff:ff/ff Emask 0x2 (HSM violation)
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3.00: status: { Busy }
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3.00: error: { ICRC UNC IDNF ABRT }
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3: hard resetting link
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
Dec  5 15:36:14 media kernel: ata3: EH complete

 

This repeats a billion times with a few of these thrown in randomly:

 

Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531648
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531649
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531650
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531651
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531652
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531653
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531654
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531655
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531656
Dec  5 15:43:11 media kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdc, logical block 531657

 

 

I canceled the parity, un-assigned the drive in Settings, then ran a preclear (preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdc) on it to test the drive.  I'm seeing it take insane amounts of time during the pre-read.  I let it run for 36 hours and it ended up getting to 1%, completing around 30gb out of 2tb.  I ended up canceling the pre-clear and trying my second drive.  Same exact thing on both.  I've attached the SMART log that was run prior to the pre-read.  It isn't reporting any re-allocated sectors, so I'm not really sure what is going on.  From what I've read, the pre-read shouldn't be taking 36 hours to reach 1%. 

 

I never ran these drives un-jumpered.  They were immediately jumpered out of the box (thanks to reading these forums), then installed into my unRaid.  My hardware specs on the system:

AMD 2800+

Gigabyte GA-7N400

1.5gb DDR2 RAM

2x 2-port PCI SATA card - different brands.  I can't really see what the exact model they are, as they're currently installed.  I don't think it's a bad cable/card, as my previous parity drive ran just fine on the same port, but who knows.

 

Can anyone shed some light on what may be happening?  I'm thinking I received a set of bad drives, but since I didn't see any re-allocated sectors on the SMART report, I'm not really sure.  Thanks in advance for any help!

 

smart_start1528.txt

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Hello,

  I just ran pre-clear on my first disk. I'm attaching the syslog, I think I have all the correct info in there. I think it looks fine to me, am I correct? Also, should I run pre-clear anymore on this disk? Obviously the day is off by one and the time is wrong because I didn't think to set it in the settings menu, will this affect anything now that I have fixed it?

Syslog-Disk1_Preclear-12-07-2010.txt

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Hello,

  I just ran pre-clear on my first disk. I'm attaching the syslog, I think I have all the correct info in there. I think it looks fine to me, am I correct? Also, should I run pre-clear anymore on this disk? Obviously the day is off by one and the time is wrong because I didn't think to set it in the settings menu, will this affect anything now that I have fixed it?

looks fine to me too.  The time will not affect the pre-clear.
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Hello,

  I just ran pre-clear on my first disk. I'm attaching the syslog, I think I have all the correct info in there. I think it looks fine to me, am I correct? Also, should I run pre-clear anymore on this disk? Obviously the day is off by one and the time is wrong because I didn't think to set it in the settings menu, will this affect anything now that I have fixed it?

looks fine to me too.  The time will not affect the pre-clear.

Joe I read earlier in the post that you recommend running a few pre-clear cycles to verify everything is fine. How many cycles do you suggest for a drive that takes 36 hrs to complete?

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Hello,

  I just ran pre-clear on my first disk. I'm attaching the syslog, I think I have all the correct info in there. I think it looks fine to me, am I correct? Also, should I run pre-clear anymore on this disk? Obviously the day is off by one and the time is wrong because I didn't think to set it in the settings menu, will this affect anything now that I have fixed it?

looks fine to me too.  The time will not affect the pre-clear.

Joe I read earlier in the post that you recommend running a few pre-clear cycles to verify everything is fine. How many cycles do you suggest for a drive that takes 36 hrs to complete?

One is probably enough...  if you have the time and don't need it immediately, let it run again.  Many manufacturers like to burn-in electronics for 48 hours... you've come pretty close to that.
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One is probably enough...  if you have the time and don't need it immediately, let it run again.  Many manufacturers like to burn-in electronics for 48 hours... you've come pretty close to that.

 

Ok sounds good, I'll run it once more. Better safe than sorry. :) Once this has finished for the second time, I will be able to populate it while I pre-clear my other drives? I'm pretty sure I read that at the beginning but wanted to make sure.

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One is probably enough...  if you have the time and don't need it immediately, let it run again.  Many manufacturers like to burn-in electronics for 48 hours... you've come pretty close to that.

 

Ok sounds good, I'll run it once more. Better safe than sorry. :) Once this has finished for the second time, I will be able to populate it while I pre-clear my other drives? I'm pretty sure I read that at the beginning but wanted to make sure.

Yes you can add it to your array and start using it.  While the array is online you can pre-clear any drive not assigned to the array.
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Hello, I started preclearing my six disks about nine hours ago. This is my 1TB disk. Is step #4 it shows partitions 2,3 & 4. Is this normal for a new drive? I thought it should have one partition. The other disks did not get this far yet because they are 2TB. I'm using unmenu and screen through a putty telnet sesion. It shows it is doing a Post-Read now.

Thanks,

Tom

 

=                unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdf

=                      cycle 1 of 1

= Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed                                DONE

= Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes            DONE

= Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE

= Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward.          DONE

= Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4      DONE

= Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area                        DONE

= Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes                    DONE

= Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state        DONE

= Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning  DONE

= Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries            DONE

= Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful.    DONE

= Post-Read in progress: 30% complete.

(  305,980,416,000  of  1,000,204,886,016  bytes read ) 91.3 MB/s

Disk Temperature: 40C, Elapsed Time:  9:09:32

 

 

 

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If you look back at a couple of other people's posts, you can see this is normal.

Joe will have to explain why....  but it's in other's results as well..

 

Jim

 

Ok, thanks Jim

A master boot record has positions in it for 4 partitions.  unRAID uses only 1.  The bytes describing the other possible three must be cleared in case they once held old partitioning information.  as described this message is informational and completely normal.
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If you look back at a couple of other people's posts, you can see this is normal.

Joe will have to explain why....  but it's in other's results as well..

 

Jim

 

Ok, thanks Jim

A master boot record has positions in it for 4 partitions.  unRAID uses only 1.  The bytes describing the other possible three must be cleared in case they once held old partitioning information.  as described this message is informational and completely normal.

 

Thanks Joe, My disks are about 16 hours into preclear and 12% into Post-Read.

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