[OmniOS-discuss] mpt_sas wedge

[Narayan Desai]

We've started running smartctl to try to catch sata drive failures earlier.
it seems to avoid mayhem in our experience.
 -nld


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 10:13 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 01:45:46PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote:
>
> > make sure I don't get any more errors. Is it a pretty sure bet that the
> disk
> > is going bad, or should I take the time/trouble to pull it out and run
> > diagnostics on it on a separate machine before RMA'ing it?
>
> Definitely a bad disk, I yanked it out and stuck it in a linux box to
> test, it immediately failed a short smart test:
>
> Self-test execution status:      ( 116) The previous self-test completed
> having
>                                         the read element of the test
>                                         failed.
> [...]
> SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
> Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining LifeTime(hours)
>  LBA _of_first_error
> # 1  Short offline       Completed: read failure       40%      1445 #
> 3655496
>
> Submitting an advance RMA request through Western Digital was pretty
> painless, hopefully the replacement will show up shortly. Other than the
> controller failing and requiring a hard reboot about what I'd expect
> from a dead drive...
> _______________________________________________
> OmniOS-discuss mailing list
> OmniOS-discuss at lists.omniti.com
> http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://omniosce.org/ml-archive/attachments/20131210/33268070/attachment.html>