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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 12:39 am    Post subject: Has sector 88 of both Raid 1 disks failed? [MOSTLY SOLVED] Reply with quote

Hello,
My Proliant DL380 G5 boots off an md raid 1 of two Samsung HD204UI 2TB disks. The disks are attached via eSATA cables to a PCI-X Silicon Image 3124 controller.

A couple of times /dev/md1 does not come up clean and on one occasion the physical volume that sits on /dev/md1 had disappeared and needed re-creating. The following relates to my attempts to resolve these issues.

dmesg does not look nice:
Quote:
ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata2.00: irq_stat 0x00020002, device error via D2H FIS
ata2.00: failed command: READ DMA
ata2.00: cmd c8/00:40:20:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
res 51/40:08:58:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata2.00: error: { UNC }
ata2.00: configured for UDMA/100
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] Unhandled sense code
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb]
Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb]
Sense Key : 0x3 [current] [descriptor]
Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 58
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb]
ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x4
sd 1:0:0:0: [sdb] CDB:
cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 40 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 88
Buffer I/O error on device sdb, logical block 11
ata2: EH complete
ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
ata1.00: irq_stat 0x00020002, device error via D2H FIS
ata1.00: failed command: READ DMA
ata1.00: cmd c8/00:40:20:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 32768 in
res 51/40:08:58:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error)
ata1.00: status: { DRDY ERR }
ata1.00: error: { UNC }
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Unhandled sense code
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
Sense Key : 0x3 [current] [descriptor]
Descriptor sense data with sense descriptors (in hex):
72 03 11 04 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 80 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 58
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda]
ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x4
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] CDB:
cdb[0]=0x28: 28 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 40 00
end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 88
Buffer I/O error on device sda, logical block 11
ata1: EH complete


Smartctl concurs, smartctl -a /dev/sda
Quote:
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 4207 88
and, smartctl -a /dev/sdb
Quote:
Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error
# 1 Extended offline Completed: read failure 90% 1819 88


It does not appear that this problem is being caused by any funky security features, hdparm -I /dev/sda | tail -n 14
Quote:
Security:
Master password revision code = 65534
supported
not enabled
not locked
not frozen
not expired: security count
supported: enhanced erase
338min for SECURITY ERASE UNIT. 338min for ENHANCED SECURITY ERASE UNIT.
Logical Unit WWN Device Identifier: 50000f00100b0031
NAA : 5
IEEE OUI : 0000f0
Unique ID : 0100b0031
Integrity word not set (found 0x0000, expected 0x17a5)


Does this really mean that sector 88 of both disks has failed? If so, what do you think the cause of this might be?


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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's not outside the realm of possibility... if they're both similar disks and they've always been used as mirrors, they'll have mostly identical wear patterns. If they've ever been through a power failure it's possible the heads had an accident at the same place too. Could also both be from a manufacturing batch with a recurring defect.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 15, 2012 2:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

gdisk -l /dev/sda | tail -n 5
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Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 6143 2.0 MiB EF02 BIOS boot
2 6144 10491903 5.0 GiB 8200 Swap
3 10491904 10553343 30.0 MiB FD00 md0
4 10553344 3907029134 1.8 TiB FD00 md1

The above suggests to me that sector 88 is unused - so "end_request: I/O error, dev sda, sector 88" is nothing to worry about?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 2:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is what I then did:
    Panic,
    Get two new drives and get those old ones with the dodgy sector 88 off my server,
    Think,
    Use Samsung's estools. This confirmed the problem with sector 88. I then used estools to do a 12 hour low level format. estools then no-longer reported a problem with sector 88.
    smartctl concurs: Before; after.

What caused the original sector 88 problem who only knows. And, why was Reallocated_Event_Count and Current_Pending_Sector = 0. I would have thought that if there was a problem there would have been some reallocations going on.
Anyway, estools reformat seems to have done the trick.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 4:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Reallocation only occur on writes. To force a drive to reallocate a bad sector, use "hdparm --write-sector" option on the problem sector - with great caution, (the option is described as VERY DANGEROUS in the manpage for a reason, as any data in the sector will be lost).
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