Re: RAID down, dont know why!

[Joe Landman <landman@scalableinformatics.com>]

Andrew Dunn wrote:
> storrgie@ALEXANDRIA:~$ lsscsi  | grep sd[ijkl]
> [11:0:0:0]   disk    ATA      WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05  /dev/sdi
> [11:0:1:0]   disk    ATA      WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05  /dev/sdj
> [11:0:2:0]   disk    ATA      WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05  /dev/sdk
> [11:0:3:0]   disk    ATA      WDC WD1001FALS-0 0K05  /dev/sdl
> 

Does smartctl report drive failure?

	smartctl -a /dev/sdi | grep "SMART overall-health"
	smartctl -a /dev/sdj | grep "SMART overall-health"
	smartctl -a /dev/sdk | grep "SMART overall-health"
	smartctl -a /dev/sdl | grep "SMART overall-health"

> 
> Joe Landman wrote:
>> Andrew Dunn wrote:
>>> I just copied 4+ TiB of information to this array, restarted 5 times
>>> and tried to access it.... What is going on?
>> It looks like you have 4 failed drives. sdl,sdi,sdj,sdk
>>
>> Is it possible you lost power or connectivity to those drives?
>>
>> If you have lsscsi installed, what does lsscsi tell you about this?
>>
>> lsscsi  | grep sd[ijkl]
>>
>> Given the proximity of the drives in ordering, I'd suspect a power
>> loss, or cable seating, or similar to those drives.
>>
>> Reseat power/signal cables on the drive bays, and see if this helps.
>>
>>
>> Joe
>>
> 


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