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does not show any errors or things i would be concerned about but always failed in segment 3. i am not getting any trash data or anything from the drive either. thoughts?
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can someone interpret this smartctl log?
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so, i stopped an started smart on this drive and it is now showing FIRMWARE IMPENDING FAILURE SEEK ERROR RATE TOO HIGH.
looks like i get to RMA a drive.
oddly diskinfo reports no issues and theres really not any errors to speak of, looks like firmware corruption maybe.
looks like i get to RMA a drive.
oddly diskinfo reports no issues and theres really not any errors to speak of, looks like firmware corruption maybe.
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It is telling you there is a specific sector that is bad in segment 3. Long tests the entire area, every sector. It is finding the same sector is bad. A bad sector is not the end of the world, but if you are getting high seek rate errors, than the sector must be in an important area of the disk. You could try to fix the sector, format and reload the data, but it probably better just to RMA the drive.
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just updating this as a 'things to try' list for when others see similar behavior.
the drive was not actually the issue, the server was moved recently and while every precaution possible was taken to limit vibration and such, (drives were all removed and moved in a separate padded box) moving a 10 year old server is always concerning.
an array was built with new drives in this server and after 2 weeks those drives all started showing cheksum errors. some drives were failing smart sometimes. no drive had read/write errors.
testing. pulled drives and placed in other servers and ran smart tests, all drives passed every time. pulled controllers and placed in other server and connected drives, built arrays, moved data, ran smart on drives, no errors were created. i have concerns that maybe a backplane was damaged in moving the server, but again the server was moved with the drives removed to lessen the strain on the backplane. i even swapped a controller out on the server and still some checksum errors were being generated.
most recently i pulled out the drives and cabling and controllers for all the SAS stuff and re-cabled it. currently the first smart long tests are completing and this is a tentative good sign, i am hopeful but concerned. the chassis is old enough that i will not be able to replace the backplane, heck the server is old enough that replacing any one part will be an attempt at finding a better used piece on ebay. and i do not want to build a new server at this time, i would like to hold on at least a year until there are some good deals on Epyc, to finally replace my bulldozer based rig.
the drive was not actually the issue, the server was moved recently and while every precaution possible was taken to limit vibration and such, (drives were all removed and moved in a separate padded box) moving a 10 year old server is always concerning.
an array was built with new drives in this server and after 2 weeks those drives all started showing cheksum errors. some drives were failing smart sometimes. no drive had read/write errors.
testing. pulled drives and placed in other servers and ran smart tests, all drives passed every time. pulled controllers and placed in other server and connected drives, built arrays, moved data, ran smart on drives, no errors were created. i have concerns that maybe a backplane was damaged in moving the server, but again the server was moved with the drives removed to lessen the strain on the backplane. i even swapped a controller out on the server and still some checksum errors were being generated.
most recently i pulled out the drives and cabling and controllers for all the SAS stuff and re-cabled it. currently the first smart long tests are completing and this is a tentative good sign, i am hopeful but concerned. the chassis is old enough that i will not be able to replace the backplane, heck the server is old enough that replacing any one part will be an attempt at finding a better used piece on ebay. and i do not want to build a new server at this time, i would like to hold on at least a year until there are some good deals on Epyc, to finally replace my bulldozer based rig.