[Officers] Fwd: SMART error (FailedReadSmartData) detected on host: pegasus.blu.org

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

The way this works is that the hardware must first spin up the drives.
What Pegasus sees is what was in the drive at boot time.

On 06/02/2011 07:40 PM, John Abreau wrote:
> Saw this error. Looks like one of the disks we're not currently using,
> and which fdisk is unable to read anyway.
>
> I'm not happy to report that "smartctl -H" reports "SMART Health Status: OK"
> for /dev/sdc. fdisk reports "Unable to read /dev/sdc", and "smartctl -a"
> says "device is NOT READY (e.g. spun down, busy)
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting."
>
> We currently have two disks that are in use: /dev/sda and /dev/sdd.
> /dev/sdb is present but unused, and sdc is showing as present but apparently
> failing.
>
> Now that I think of it, last time I was at NEDV, I removed the "new" drive
> that I had just installed a couple days before, so I believe there should
> only be 3 drives in pegasus. I'm not sure why it thinks there are 4.
>
> Jerry, you have the same hardware at Algorythmics, right? Does this
> phantom disk behavior make sense to you? Maybe the BIOS keeps
> a cache of what hard drives used to be installed, and it's screwing up
> how smartctl sees things?
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: root <root at blu.org>
> Date: Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 1:11 PM
> Subject: SMART error (FailedReadSmartData) detected on host: pegasus.blu.org
> To: root at blu.org
>
>
> This email was generated by the smartd daemon running on:
>
>   host name: pegasus.blu.org
>  DNS domain: [Unknown]
>  NIS domain: (none)
>
> The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon:
>
> Device: /dev/sdc, failed to read SMART values
>
> For details see host's SYSLOG (default: /var/log/messages).
>
> You can also use the smartctl utility for further investigation.
> No additional email messages about this problem will be sent.
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>


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