Well, well, here we are again! Another fight with the rotating drives. If 2TB SSD’s weren’t so expensive (2017/07/30 => ~550 €), I would have replaced all of them by now!
Yesterday (2017/07/29) the oldest drive failed hard, no way to get it working, so I replaced it with a 4GB HGST drive. Should be easy, right? But it isn’t. Had to rip the intestines out:
Had to connect all drives to the internal SATA-Connectors so the board would recognize them. In the external casing it was come and go 🙁
After disabling NCQ by adding libata.force=noncq to the kernel command line I got up to whopping 6000K/sec resync speed! It’s not the kernel. Tried 4.9, 4.11 and 4.12, all the same. The problem is this drive, because it’s failing, too, I guess:
Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) Device Model: ST3000DM001-1CH166 Serial Number: Z1F58T6T LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 06725c7df Firmware Version: CC27 User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Form Factor: 3.5 inches Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ACS-2, ACS-3 T13/2161-D revision 3b SATA Version is: SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Mon Jul 31 01:05:03 2017 CEST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled
Of course hadante crashed hard once already, but I do hope that the resync will be done once I’m back from Wacken. About 5 days (7500 minutes) remaining without crash.
Tried to update the drive’s firmware, but that was quite a hassle, too. Had to use chntpwd on othalla to log in and make a bootable USB drive with the latest SeaTools. All for nothing, though 🙁