--- On Thu, 14/4/11, Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Mathias Burén <mathias.buren@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: RAID6 data-check took almost 2 hours, clicking sounds, system unresponsive > To: "Gavin Flower" <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: neilb@xxxxxxx, linux-raid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Thursday, 14 April, 2011, 10:28 > On 13 April 2011 23:24, Gavin Flower > <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > --- On Fri, 8/4/11, Gavin Flower <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > >> From: Gavin Flower <gavinflower@xxxxxxxxx> > >> Subject: RAID6 data-check took almost 2 hours, > clicking sounds, system unresponsive > > [...] > >> This morning, I noticed my system was extremely > >> unresponsive, and that there were clicking sounds > coming > >> from one of my 5 hard drives. > > [...] > > > > Hi Neil, > > > > When I do > > badblocks -s -v /dev/sdc > > I hear clicking sounds from the hard drive, and notice > lots and lots of log messages such as: > > ata3: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x90200 > action 0xe frozen > > ata3: irq_stat 0x00400000, PHY RDY changed > > ata3: SError: { Persist PHYRdyChg 10B8B } > > ata3: hard resetting link > > ata3: softreset failed (device not ready) > > ata3: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying > > ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl > 310) > > ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33 > > ata3: EH complete > > > > So I assume that the clicking corresponds to the hard > reset, but I'm not certain of that. Initially, I thought > it might be some kind of disk head problems. Note that > smart reports no bad blocks. > > > > > > Regards, > > Gavin > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line > "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > Perhaps you could post the full smartctl -a output? > > Regards, > Mathias > Hi Mathias, I was more commenting on the clicking sound, rather than asking for help! However, I am happy to oblige, output follows later. I am happy to provide additional diagnostics and log messages, should they be of use. Regards, Gavin # smartctl -a /dev/sdc smartctl 5.40 2010-10-16 r3189 [x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 family Device Model: ST3500418AS Serial Number: 5VMJ3RJE Firmware Version: CC38 User Capacity: 500,107,862,016 bytes Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Thu Apr 14 12:08:18 2011 NZST 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: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. 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: ( 600) 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: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 85) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x103f) SCT Status supported. SCT Error Recovery Control supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 10 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 87918991 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 099 097 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 085 085 020 Old_age Always - 16014 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 072 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 20251386 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 097 097 000 Old_age Always - 2940 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 093 093 020 Old_age Always - 7999 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 076 076 000 Old_age Always - 24 184 End-to-End_Error 0x0032 100 100 099 Old_age Always - 0 187 Reported_Uncorrect 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 188 Command_Timeout 0x0032 100 099 000 Old_age Always - 1 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 067 055 045 Old_age Always - 33 (Min/Max 17/33) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 033 045 000 Old_age Always - 33 (0 16 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 031 026 000 Old_age Always - 87918991 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 225696236445405 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 134453215 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 846601860 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 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3 - 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. # -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html