Re: Raid5 drive fail during grow and no backup
From: Phil Turmel <hidden>
Date: 2014-11-07 13:36:42
On 11/06/2014 12:12 PM, Vince wrote:
Hi Phil,quoted
This is a problem you haven't solved yet, I think. The raid array should have fixed this bad sector for you without kicking the drive out. The scenario is common with "green" drives and/or consumer-grade drives in general.i investigated some time and now i am a bit confused. All my 5 WD Red drives have ERC enables (7sec) The kernel timeout is set to 30sec (/sys/block/sdb/device/timeout) on all devices. Unfortunately i haven't any backup of the dmesg output, but i can remeber i got something like: "failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED status: { DRDY ERR } error: { UNC }". This shows up several times until it ends with showing me the sector which causes the problem. My raid is still up, but as you mentioned i would like some kind of self repair if a sector is unreadable instead throwing the disk out of the array. Here is the samrtctl of one drive that fails. Do you have any idea if i missing some settings etc?
Interesting. I use the WD Red drives, too, and recommend them. Your drive's smartctl report is clean as far as wear & tear is concerned. That suggests a hardware problem elsewhere in your system. Bad cable, perhaps, or a failing power supply. Beyond that, I can only recommend regular "check" scrubs, with "repair" scrubs only when mismatches are discovered. Phil