{"id":337,"date":"2017-07-31T00:20:17","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T23:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=337"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:52:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T11:52:15","slug":"dusting-off-the-array-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=337","title":{"rendered":"Dusting off the Array! (Part 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, here we are again! Another fight with the rotating drives. If 2TB SSD&#8217;s weren&#8217;t so expensive (2017\/07\/30 =&gt; ~550 \u20ac), I would have replaced all of them by now!<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t. Had to rip the intestines out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-338\" src=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-1.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-339\" src=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/raid-20170730-2.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>After disabling NCQ by adding libata.force=noncq to the kernel command line I got up to whopping 6000K\/sec resync speed! It&#8217;s not the kernel. Tried 4.9, 4.11 and 4.12, all the same. The problem is this drive, because it&#8217;s failing, too, I guess:<\/p>\n<pre>Model Family: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\r\nDevice Model: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0ST3000DM001-1CH166 \r\nSerial Number: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Z1F58T6T \r\nLU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 06725c7df \r\nFirmware Version: CC27 \r\nUser Capacity: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a03,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] \r\nSector Sizes: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical \r\nRotation Rate: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a07200 rpm \r\nForm Factor: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a03.5 inches \r\nDevice is: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] \r\nATA Version is: \u00a0\u00a0ACS-2, ACS-3 T13\/2161-D revision 3b \r\nSATA Version is: \u00a0SATA 3.1, 6.0 Gb\/s (current: 6.0 Gb\/s) \r\nLocal Time is: \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Mon Jul 31 01:05:03 2017 CEST \r\nSMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. \r\nSMART support is: Enabled<\/pre>\n<p>Of course hadante crashed hard once already, but I do hope that the resync will be done once I&#8217;m back from Wacken. About 5 days (7500 minutes) remaining without crash.<\/p>\n<p>Tried to update the drive&#8217;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 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, well, here we are again! Another fight with the rotating drives. If 2TB SSD&#8217;s weren&#8217;t so expensive (2017\/07\/30 =&gt; ~550 \u20ac), 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tollana.d-tor.org\/notes-to-self\/?p=337\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dusting off the Array! 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