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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
I've had drives that pass the non-destructive tests, but which fail horribly on the destructive write test. Not sure if that is your situation, but I am suspicious that a single block would fail with a > 1 sec read timeout, but nothing else wrong.
berillio wrote: I am under the impression that, notwithstanding the "Pass" from Seatools and Lifeguard, you are convinced that HD1 is utterly faulty (well, NAS flagged it as "fail"). Which is why you are suggesting the "destructive Seatools test" which could "tick out" the offending block...
The NAS expects disk replacements to be inserted into the original slot. So I wouldn't insert the next disk into bay 4.
For option (2) and (3) - are you meaning to insert the disks with the NAS off on step (b)? Or a hot insert?
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