Alan Gagne alanjgagne@gmail.com writes:
"SMART is not a reliable warning system for impending failure
Maybe not, but when I had one of these drives going bad about a year ago. It did a great job of warning that I had an impending drive failure. The relocated sector count would jump in small blocks over time.
Interesting, did you get a warning message? I had to remove udisksd2 because it kept polling SMART information from a disk that should be asleep and not kept awake all the time. I was wondering what the SMART information is polled for.
The intel storage manager I use under Windows currently does not have any warnings about the drives.
The bios screen that displays array health when the system comes up shows both arrays as healthy.
Smart,Intel and the bios were all in agreement when I had a failing disk in the past.
Then I guess we can assume that the disks have not failed.
Do you see any messages in /var/log/messages that could be relevant?
These are the only messages that seem relevant from journalctl -xb
Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: table: 253:4: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed Jul 19 07:35:26 knucklehead.xxxx.com kernel: device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table
It seems likely that this is what causes your problem. When you google for the error message, there are a lot of reports about it. You could look into them and try to figure out how to solve the issue --- someone said old meta information caused it, someone else said removing a package that provides dmraid fixed it for them ...