Hi all,
I have OMV 2.0 running on my media server with 1 smaller (500GB) drive for the OS, 2 4TB Seagate drives (cheap, ripped from external HDDs) and 1 Hitachi 3TB for content, and 1 4TB Seagate drive for SnapRAID.
Lately, my system has had trouble booting up. It will hang with a blinking cursor after the BIOS screen. It will start up properly if I manually power it off and power it back on however. One of my 4TB content drives has also been dropping in and out. It will be fine and SMART tests indicate it is good, but it will stop showing details in the SMART menu about once a day (temp and serial number disappear) drop out of my listed physical disks periodically.The web gui also seems to be lagging and losing connection (i often get "Communication failure with details - Communication failure").
I tried changing out the SATA cable to the drive to no avail. This morning I woke up to find that the drive in question /dev/sdc had dropped, and when it came back online it had registered as /dev/sdf/ and therefore was not part of my aufs data pool. I could of course re-add it to the pool, but it's becoming quite alarming.
My question therefore is how do I ensure this drive is bad if SMART reports no errors (short and long selftests), but it's dropping off. Also, could these other issues I am seeing (hanging forever on boot, unresponsive web gui) be a function of this drive failure?
Thanks.