Questions tagged [drive-failure]
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Dealing with CONFIG FAILURE on fresh drive (3ware / LSI RAID)
This is not about DRIVE failure. It's about drive CONFIG failure.
I bought 3 brand new drives for my server, because existing ones have worked for over 4 years and one of them is failing (shows ECC ...
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Troubleshooting `Buffer I/O error` on software-raid/md-device
I've got a RAID-5 mdadm array that reliably causes Buffer I/O error on dev md0, logical block 1598030208, async page read to be written do dmesg when reading that block. Of course, the read also ...
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Is this disk about to die?
I have a WD Red 4 TB disk (WD40EFRX-68WT0N0, firmware 82.00A82) that is occasionally showing uncorrectable read errors in the SMART error log, e.g.:
Error 43 [18] occurred at disk power-on lifetime: ...
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ZFS keeps repairing the same disk when scrubbing - what does that mean?
I have a ZFS pool comprised of 6 disk, arranged in 3 stripped mirrors. The server is a Supermicro X11SSM-F with a Xeon CPU, 32 GB of ECC RAM running Ubuntu 17.04. I'm using 2 Icy Dock MB154SP-B to ...
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Isolate a failed SSD drive
I have recently had a Samsung 840 Pro 256 GB SSD fail on our server. The drive was configured in a RAID 1 array and a reboot was sufficient to bring things back online.
When looking at the Intel ...
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How to identify which disk is failing in a HP ProLiant RAID controller?
I have a hard time identifying which drive is failing in my HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8. It has the following RAID controller: Smart Array P420i. I see tons of errors in dmesg:
[40425140.998750] sd 0:1:0:...
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MEGARAID RAID 1 SSD WITH HOT SPARE AVAILABLE
I do not know whether this requires immediate action or not. W2012R2 server with two 500GB SSDs plus one identical Hot Global Spare. RAID is Megaraid. Screenshots from the RAID Utility are attached ...
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MegaRAID SAS Phy is bad on enclosure, no SAS address
I've inherited a MegaRAID SAS 24 bay RAID, that is also attached to two additional enclosures ( one 24 bay, and one 12 bay).
I attempted to load 6 new drives into 6 consecutive empty drive bays on ...
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Removing failed Raid0 volume from CentOSv6 boot sequence
I need help. To date the majority of my Linux 'software RAID' use has been done via the Graphical Installer. Now, one of the drives comprising my RAID-0 volume has failed and at boot, the system ...
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Smartd supress/change level for FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED
I'm using smartd to monitor drive health
It started compaining about FAILURE PREDICTION THRESHOLD EXCEEDED for one drive, but I extensively tested that drive and it's fully functional
That drive is ...
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Can ESXi pause VMs on a datastore in APD state?
I know that using VMCP on VMware ESXi, it's possible to make the ESXi host shut down or restart a virtual machine when a datastore that the VM resides on goes into All Paths Down (APD) state.
I'm ...
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How to identify which disk failed on RAID 10?
RAID 10 set up from 16 SATA (4TB) disks. How to identify from pictures which disk is failed?
Here is my screenshots:
The output of lcpci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E7 v2/Xeon E5 ...
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Does mdstat showing very different block sizes for identical drives indicate a failing drive?
One of my servers has a RAID1 array composed of two 240GB SSDs. It is managed/controlled via Linux, not via a hardware card.
Recently, for no apparent reason, the array needed rebuilding. I rebooted ...
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Server throwing error on drive: status: { DRDY ERR }, error: { ABRT }, failed command: READ DMA EXT
I have a server from Red Barn that has been throwing errors accessing its local SATA flash drive. Here are some facts:
I'm running Ubuntu 15.10, although two other similar Supermicro servers are as ...
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RAID5 needs drive to be added every reboot
I have a 3 disk RAID5 mdadm array total 4TB on an Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS.
Since a kernel panic caused by a device unrelated to the array and that has been already replaced, after every reboot the ...
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RAID 5 failure Ubutnu 12.04 not rebooting
I have Ubuntu 12.04 setup with software RAID 5. Dmesg started to show I/O errors continuously. I thought to reboot the system and lo and behold, it got stuck on
GRUB ERROR Loading 21
I then used an ...
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Diagnose RAID utilisation on a failed drive
I am facing a problem on a server I didn't install, the former guy isn't here anymore to explain me anything.
Some processes crashed due to what seems to be a disk failure, so I searched in the logs ...
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KVM LVM-based guest... kernel: Buffer I/O error on device. Failing drive?
Currently setting up a small KVM host to run a few VMs for a small business. The server has 2 drives in software md RAID 1, then I have it set as a PV in an LVM setup. Guests and hosts are all CentOS ...
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Penguin server won't boot after swapping failed hard drive in RAID 6
So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the ...
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Drive failed or can be still used?
I've the following WD drive (3TB) that gave me a problem (I was unable to access any file: even an ls command on it caused a never ending wait).
Here some details on the disk:
Disk /dev/sda: 2.7 TiB, ...
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Recover data from broken RAID 1 drive
I need to save files from a Buffalo NAS Linkstation with two physical drives that is not working anymore (2TB each, Raid 1). Error message says:
The bad sectors in the hard drive may have reached a ...
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Are there any risks I'm not considering for when a swap partition fails?
I'm planning to setup 4 drives in a raid10 configuration, but putting separate swap partitions on each (no raid), and letting the kernel do something similar to raid0. When/if one of the drive fails ...
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SMART: Raw Read Error Rate Errors on Mirrored Drives
Thanks for reading.
I have a pair of 150GB WD Velociraptors that have failed SMART status.
The only fail they have is the Raw Read Error Rate, which is as follows.
.........Status:....Value:.......
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HP Proliant DL180 G6 HHD failure and replacement
One of the HP HDD in our HP Proliant DL180 G6 had failed, I've replaced the failed HDD with a standard 1 TB Seagate HDD, the Array controller won't start rebuilding on a Seagate, I had the new Seagate ...
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