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Goverp
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 Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 3:56 pm Post subject: Can anyone help me diagnose a disk error |
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My 4-disk RAID 5 array occasionally (about once a month) throws errors like the listing below. The errors started about 3 months ago, and as far as I remember are all alike.
| Code: | Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1.00: exception Emask 0x50 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x800 action 0x6 frozen
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface fatal error
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1.00: cmd 61/50:00:1e:34:c1/00:00:1a:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 40960 out
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: res 40/00:04:1e:34:c1/00:00:1a:00:00/40 Emask 0x50 (ATA bus error)
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1: hard resetting link
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: Sense Key : 0xb [current] [descriptor]
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: 72 0b 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: 1a c1 34 1e
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ASC=0x0 ASCQ=0x0
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: cdb[0]=0x2a: 2a 00 1a c1 34 1e 00 00 50 00
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 448869406
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: md/raid:md127: Disk failure on sda3, disabling device.
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: md/raid:md127: Operation continuing on 3 devices.
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: RAID conf printout:
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: --- level:5 rd:4 wd:3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: disk 0, o:0, dev:sda3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: RAID conf printout:
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: --- level:5 rd:4 wd:3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: disk 1, o:1, dev:sdb3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: disk 2, o:1, dev:sdc3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: disk 3, o:1, dev:sdd3
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer mdadm[1601]: Fail event detected on md device /dev/md127, component device /dev/sda3 |
What's strange is that the disk showing the error keeps changing - first /dev/sdb, then /dev/sdd twice, now /dev/sda, which makes me wonder if it's really an I/O error.
The drives are all WD Caviar Blue; running the WD disk diagnostic program offline detects no problems, and SMART has recorded nothing. Just for good measure, after the above error, I ran the SMART offline long self-test against /dev/sda, but the SMART data (below) shows no problems at all.
I re-seated all the drive cables some time ago, but have had a couple of errors since then.
Can anyone suggest how I can diagnose this further, or explain what the kernel is trying to tell me?
| Code: | acer ~ # smartctl -a /dev/sda
smartctl 5.42 2011-10-20 r3458 [x86_64-linux-3.6.11-gentoolxc] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-11 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family: Western Digital Caviar Blue Serial ATA
Device Model: WDC WD3200AAJS-22B4A0
Serial Number: WD-WCAT13916727
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0014ee 1014538b7
Firmware Version: 01.03A01
User Capacity: 320,072,933,376 bytes [320 GB]
Sector Size: 512 bytes logical/physical
Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
Local Time is: Mon Feb 18 14:14:36 2013 GMT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED
General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity
was suspended by an interrupting command from host.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 5400) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 66) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x303f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 156 153 021 Pre-fail Always - 3158
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 098 098 000 Old_age Always - 2022
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 091 091 000 Old_age Always - 7117
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1999
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 132
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 2022
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 103 092 000 Old_age Always - 40
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 5
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0
SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 7117 -
# 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7115 -
# 3 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7111 -
# 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7099 -
# 5 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7092 -
# 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7087 -
# 7 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7077 -
# 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7068 -
# 9 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7063 -
#10 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7061 -
#11 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7056 -
#12 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7051 -
#13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7047 -
#14 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7038 -
#15 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 7030 -
#16 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 7030 -
#17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7028 -
#18 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7017 -
#19 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7017 -
#20 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7015 -
#21 Short offline Completed without error 00% 7007 -
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2013 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Goverp,
Something happened at sector 448869406. and the kernel did its error handling thing (EH Complete)
| Code: | Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 448869406
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: ata1: EH complete
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: md/raid:md127: Disk failure on sda3, disabling device.
Feb 18 12:17:17 acer kernel: md/raid:md127: Operation continuing on 3 devices. |
but too late to avoid the drive being kicked out the the array.
Do the following | Code: | | echo repair > /sys/block/md127/md/sync_action |
Before you start the above, have a look at dmesg and save all of the drives smart data to a set of files so you can refer to it later.
This will read all the drives in md127 and where there is a read error, the redundant data will be recreated. This will force bad blocks to be remapped.
When it completes, check the | Code: | 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 |
for each drive against the files you made at the start.
Non zero values do not indicate a dead/dying drive. The drive is supposed to reallocate failing sectors but preserve the data as it does so.
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Goverp
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I looked at the SMART data, but it's unchanged. Unfortunately, I ran the WD diagnostics/repair utility before collecting the SMART data shown above, so there have been no more repairs. But looking at the data, there weren't any anyway - which at least is consistent with the WD utility, which found no errors despite doing a surface scan.
It probably does other stuff, but WD don't say. One time I ran it after one of these fleeting I/O errors did actually claim to have fixed an error, but it didn't say what sort of error, and whatever it did didn't change the SMART counters.
I'll stick to taking backups, and hope the failure goes hard in the next couple of months before the warranty expires. The cynic in me expects the SMART data to take a turn for the worse on expiry-date+1. 
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Goverp,
You can try replacing the data cables or even just "wiping the contacts" by unplugging them and reconnecting them.
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