[OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

[Geoff Nordli]

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Jason Matthews <jason at broken.net> wrote:
>
> Vendor: SEAGATE  Product: ST1000NM0001     Revision: 0001 Serial No:
> Z1N00DTC0000S12
> Size: 1000.20GB <1000204886016 bytes>
> Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 2 Recoverable: 0 Illegal
> Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0 c2t5000C50033F5BFBBd0 Soft Errors:
> 0 Hard Errors: 597 Transport Errors: 0
>
> This disk looks sick with 597 hard errors and is the same device fmdump is
> citing... I would cut my losses and RMA it. If it happens again, pull that
> disk out and see if things recover...
>
> Good luck.
>

Yes, that does look suspect.

Part of my concern is why one disk would have completely brought down
the system.  I have seen this come up on the list before, but I don't
remember any resolutions to fixing it.

Anyone have any clues to try to prevent this from happening in the future?

thanks,

Geoff