[Leaplist] 3Ware degraded, all drives 'ok'?

William Warren hescominsoon at emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com
Wed May 27 08:10:46 EDT 2009


Jason Boxman wrote:
> Anyone have any thoughts on this?  It's mildly disturbing.  I suppose I'm 
> going to ignore it.  Ought to replace it with two 500GB drives anyway...
>
> //nebula> info c0
>
> Unit  UnitType  Status         %Cmpl  Stripe  Size(GB)  Cache  AVerify  IgnECC
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> u0    RAID-5    DEGRADED       -      64K     335.273   ON     -        -       
>
> Port   Status           Unit   Size        Blocks        Serial
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> p0     OK               u0     111.75 GB   234375000     WD-WMAEL1485081
> p1     OK               u0     111.79 GB   234441648     WD-WMACM1970561
> p2     OK               u0     111.79 GB   234441648     WD-WMACM1828466
> p3     OK               u0     111.79 GB   234441648     WD-WMAEK1319935
>
> System Events
> =-=-=-=-=-=-=
> May 26 15:31:22 nebula kernel: [5370371.318622] 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING: 
> ATA port timeout: Port #1.
> May 26 15:31:22 nebula kernel: [5370371.318622] 3w-xxxx: scsi0: AEN: ERROR: 
> Unit degraded: Unit #0.
>
> nebula:~# smartctl /dev/twe0 -d 3ware,1 -a
> smartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
> Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/
>
> === START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
> Model Family:     Western Digital Caviar SE family
> Device Model:     WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3
> Serial Number:    WD-WMACM1970561
> Firmware Version: 75.13B75
> User Capacity:    120,034,123,776 bytes
> Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
> ATA Version is:   6
> ATA Standard is:  Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated
> Local Time is:    Tue May 26 16:19:20 2009 EDT
> 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
>
>
>   
Western digital drives not in the enterprise line have timeout problems 
with just about any raid card.  have you checked to see if there is a 
firmware update for the hard disk itself?

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