Parity Drive red balled.  I'm looking for assistance with the diagnostics of this drive. 

 

Attached are the diagnostics of the server right after the red ball and after a reboot.  Right after the incident SMART information was unavailable.  I am currently performing an extended SMART test to see if it passes.

 

Again, I'm looking for help on how to diagnose this drive.  

 

I will update this thread once the extended test is complete.  Any help on how to handle this would be appreciated!

 

tower-diagnostics-20180524-1058.zip

tower-diagnostics-20180527-0054.zip

It could be a disk problem, but difficult to say for sure, wait for the extended text, if it passes replace/swap cables and re-sync parity, if it fails again with different cables it's likely the disk.

The extended SMART test completed without error.  I can't easily replace cables as it's a breakout cable and I would have to replace the whole thing.  What I did do is re-seat the cable in the affected drive to ensure a good connection.  

 

I am re-syncing parity at this time.  I removed the disabled drive from the array, started the array, stopped, and then re-added the drive. 

 

I was actually hoping that this drive was bad as it has one month left of warranty.  I hate intermittent issues that leave you scratching your head!   Looking at the smart report it looks like it had a similar issue at 49 hours of operation, and then the current one at 8150 hours. I don't recall this drive ever red-balling before.  Weird.

 

I will report if I have a successful rebuild of parity.

 

Thanks jonnie.black.

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20180527-1101 after extented test.zip

Just an update.  Parity has been rebuilt.  I'm going to run a parity check just to be sure everything is ok.

 

For now, I'm going to blame this on a glitch in the Matrix. lol.  If this happens again on this disk I will just replace it.

 

This is one of those White Label drives that can be purchased at a pretty good price.  It wouldn't surprise me that they are actually factory rejects that were found to have some sort of issue. So they put a white label on it, reduce the warranty, and sell at a discount.  Who knows for sure.