[Tfug] And another one down

[Timothy D. Lenz]

I've heard others say the 500Gb drive was a bad drive. And todays message:

This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:

    host name: x64VDR
   DNS domain: tdl
   NIS domain: (none)

The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:

Device: /dev/sdc, 49 Offline uncorrectable sectors


49 sectors down. And with the last drive failure, the power supply was 
also replaced.

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sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
support DPO or FUA
  sdb:
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3500320AS      SD15 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
support DPO or FUA
  sdc: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
  sdc1
sd 2:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
scsi8 : usb-storage 1-9:1.0
ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
ata4.00: ATA-8: ST3500820AS, SD1A, max UDMA/133
ata4.00: 976773168 sectors, multi 1: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32)
ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133
scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3500820AS      SD1A PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 3:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't 
support DPO or FUA
  sdd: sdd1
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On 9/8/2013 12:49 PM, Bexley Hall wrote:
> Hi Timothy,
>
> On 9/7/2013 5:56 PM, Timothy D. Lenz wrote:
>> It's 4 drives  in paired mirrors. And it's those Seagate 500Gb drives.
>> I've lost track of how many times one of them as gone bad. Same thing
>> each time, a bit of noise like drive access and then the array is
>> degraded. Sometimes it takes awhile for maadam to figure it out. several
>> times it showed on reboot with a strange messed up failed boot and on
>> the second try it comes up. C/D is only a data array, so it won't even
>> effect any reboot.
>
> Wow, you really seem to be having problems, there!  Are you
> sure it's the drives' fault?  I.e., do they have a reputation
> for being "bad"?
>
> I've got a mix of drives in the machines here:  capacities
> (146/160/250/500/1000/2000/3000GB) interfaces (Wide SCSI/SCA/SATA/PATA)
> manufacturers (Fujitsu/IBM-Hitachi/Seagate/WD).  To date, the only
> drives I've had "die" are a pair of laptop drives and a "Zune"
> drive (does that even count?).
>
> I had one PATA drive that wouldn't boot at one point.  But reinstalling
> the system image "fixed" that problem (so, no idea if it was a drive
> failure or just something getting corrupted)
>
> OTOH, aside from *this* (email/inet) machine and my DNS/TFTP/BOOTP/etc
> server, none of the machines run 24/7/365 (at ~20W/spindle, I'm not
> keen on all those extra BTU's...)
>
>> I do have other stuff on there, a TS server, and VDR, web server for
>> when I need to share a file with someone, etc.. And I don't want to have
>> to go through setting any of that up again. So far mirroring has come
>> through every time. Just have to figure out the steps each time to swap
>> the drive out and get the array back up.
>
> But if you keep encountering the same problem, repeatedly (?), one
> has to ask how this is working towards *solving* that problem!
> I.e., have you done anything to identify if it is a problem with
> the drives, the system, the usage patterns, the software, etc.?
> Or, are you just treating *symptoms*?  (which suggests you will have
> to *keep* treating them in the future)
>
>> I was saving up to buy a second ship in the new game Star Citizen. The
>> game is in pre alpha but the money goes to developement of the game and
>> because I am a veteran backer having got the base game before the cut
>> off for veteran status, If i get the ship before nov 26, it comes with
>> in game life time insurance which isn't much, just one less thing to
>> spend in game credits on. Everything sold now except LTI ships will be
>> buyable in game with in game money. Purely F2P. But looks like I'll be
>> getting a drive instead. If this drive is out of warranty, I'll be
>> looking at getting a WD Red drive to replace it.
>
> Gotta have "priororities"
>      --Archie
>
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