Uncorrectable parity/CRC error on Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 KC45
A harddrive as identified below, reported uncorrectable parity/CRC error on two separate occasions this month.
ada1 at ahcich1 bus 0 scbus1 target 0 lun 0 ada1: <ST500DM002-1BD142 KC45> ATA-8 SATA 3.x device ada1: Serial Number [withheld] ada1: 600.000MB/s transfers (SATA 3.x, UDMA6, PIO 8192bytes) ada1: Command Queueing enabled ada1: 476940MB (976773168 512 byte sectors: 16H 63S/T 16383C) ada1: quirks=0x1<4K> ada1: Previously was known as ad6
These are the log messages for the first occasion:
May 7 15:58:10 <kern.crit> enterprise kernel: [446896] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 58 f0 4f 85 40 1d 00 00 00 00 00 May 7 15:58:10 <kern.crit> enterprise kernel: [446896] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error May 7 15:58:10 <kern.crit> enterprise kernel: [446896] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): Retrying command
These are the log messages for the second occasion:
May 13 12:48:01 <kern.crit> enterprise kernel: [953887] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): WRITE_FPDMA_QUEUED. ACB: 61 00 50 2e 01 40 07 00 00 01 00 00 May 13 12:48:01 <kern.crit> enterprise kernel: [953887] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): CAM status: Uncorrectable parity/CRC error May 13 12:48:01 <kern.crit> enterprise kernel: [953887] (ada1:ahcich1:0:0:0): Retrying command
ZFS ran a scrub on Sun May 18 04:46:20 2014, and found nothing to be ashamed of:
pool: enterprise_zroot state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 1h7m with 0 errors on Sun May 18 04:46:20 2014 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM enterprise_zroot ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ada0p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 ada1p3 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors
smartctl
reports a total of 4 CRC errors, but otherwise the drive’s sound.
smartctl 6.2 2014-02-18 r3874 [FreeBSD 9.3-PRERELEASE amd64] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Model Family: Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (AF) Device Model: ST500DM002-1BD142 Serial Number: [withheld] LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 03f5711f2 Firmware Version: KC45 User Capacity: 500.107.862.016 bytes [500 GB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm Device is: In smartctl database [for details use: -P show] ATA Version is: ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is: Mon May 19 14:28:04 2014 CEST 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: ( 83) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x303f) 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 104 099 006 Pre-fail Always - 6566432 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 000 Pre-fail Always - 0 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 43 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 036 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 086 060 030 Pre-fail Always - 405702078 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 077 077 000 Old_age Always - 20614 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 097 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 020 Old_age Always - 43 183 Runtime_Bad_Block 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 184 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 - 0 0 2 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 069 053 045 Old_age Always - 31 (Min/Max 31/31) 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 031 047 000 Old_age Always - 31 (0 19 0 0 0) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 050 030 000 Old_age Always - 6566432 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 - 4 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 20614h+04m+30.834s 241 Total_LBAs_Written 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3951821603 242 Total_LBAs_Read 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 3756107205 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 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 12747 - # 2 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12745 - # 3 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3721 - # 4 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3719 - # 5 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3363 - # 6 Short offline Completed without error 00% 3361 - # 7 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 3000 - # 8 Short offline Completed without error 00% 2999 - # 9 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1451 - #10 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 1311 - #11 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 613 - #12 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 550 - #13 Short offline Completed without error 00% 548 - #14 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 260 - #15 Conveyance offline Completed without error 00% 134 - #16 Extended offline Completed without error 00% 14 - #17 Short offline Completed without error 00% 12 - 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.
Maybe this is due to faulty SATA cables, or maybe my Seagate drives are finally approaching their ultimate fate.