Faulty drive keeps rebooting

[UglyBob]

Hi guys!

I'm so fed up with my TrueNas box, so I really hope someone can help me. I built it maybe 1 year ago, with 4 3.5" 3TB hdds and 1 SSD as boot disk. So far it has destroyed 3 disks I think during this year. This last time I got read errors on one again and ordered a new one. I removed the old one in the GUI, inserted the new one and let it resilver. When I came back it said the disk is removed and dmesg showed a lot of ATA errors from that drive. I turned it off and cleaned all contacts, still crap. Changed sata cable, same thing. Then it got worse. Now it starts, I see the disk lights toggle one by one, then it gets stuck on the replaced disk. It just stays lit up for about 10 min. No network, cant access the web interface, nor ping it. After maybe 10 min it reboots and does the same procedure again. If I swap the disk to another slot, the problem follow it to that slot. If I remove the disk completely, then TrueNas boots. I don't know whats going on at all...

 

[UglyBob]

Hi guys!

I'm so fed up with my TrueNas box, so I really hope someone can help me. I built it maybe 1 year ago, with 4 3.5" 3TB hdds and 1 SSD as boot disk. So far it has destroyed 3 disks I think during this year. This last time I got read errors on one again and ordered a new one. I removed the old one in the GUI, inserted the new one and let it resilver. When I came back it said the disk is removed and dmesg showed a lot of ATA errors from that drive. I turned it off and cleaned all contacts, still crap. Changed sata cable, same thing. Then it got worse. Now it starts, I see the disk lights toggle one by one, then it gets stuck on the replaced disk. It just stays lit up for about 10 min. No network, cant access the web interface, nor ping it. After maybe 10 min it reboots and does the same procedure again. If I swap the disk to another slot, the problem follow it to that slot. If I remove the disk completely, then TrueNas boots. I don't know whats going on at all...

Also, I can't get anything on the HDMI. Does TrueNas disable that or what?

 

[UglyBob]

As I suspect its not the drive that is broken, but something else, I put back the old drive and replaced to it in the GUI. Then I get this error:

Replacing Disk​

Error: [EFAULT] Failed to wipe disk ada2: [EFAULT] Command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ada2p2 bs=1M count=32 failed (code 1): dd: /dev/ada2p2: Input/output error 1+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.891503 secs (0 bytes/sec)

 

[Samuel Tai]

Please provide the details on your hardware, per the Forum Rules.

 

[UglyBob]

I noticed now I get write errors on another disk if I switch slot. So I guess the controller on the motherboard is toast?

 

[Samuel Tai]

Without knowledge of your hardware, it's hard to say.

 

[UglyBob]

Ok, just remove the thread, I throw out the crap and order new hardware anyway. If nothing else I get an upgrade to ECC