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 <[email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > http://lists.omniti.com/mailman/listinfo/omnios-discuss > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
