Another case of the vanishing disk

cruxpot cruxpot at gmail.com
Sun Mar 16 07:42:13 UTC 2014


It's an active PFC PSU plugged into an UPS which is not. Maybe that is
the problem. I will try isolating some things tomorrow after the scrub
has completed to see if I can get the errors to stop incrementing.

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Erich Dollansky
<erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 02:00:51 -0500
> cruxpot <cruxpot at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Seek_Error_Rate, Hardware_ECC_Recovered, Raw_Read_Error_Rate are all
>> increasing steadily for all four disks. Does this have something to do
>> with the recent resilver of the disk or the ongoing scrub (16.5%
>> completed)?
>>
> the seek error rate could be linked to a failing power supply. The rest
> should be just internal to the drive. Of course, also here a failing
> power supply can be the cause.
>
> Can you put the drives into another machine?
>
> You must try to isolate the problem. It is a hardware problem on some
> level. You must find out what it could be.
>
> Or just run a single disk on plain UFS. And connect it to some other
> plug. And disconnect all other drives.
>
> Erich


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