Disk Failure Detected...

bluewomble wrote:
I ran the extended disk test as you suggested... it ran overnight (and then I guess it finished it's resync)... it hasn't reported any problems. Can I see the results of the test in any of the logs? Everything seems to be working fine now. Should I ignore the problems I had with disk 2 and 4, or are there other tests I should run?

If there were any major problems in the disk test the NAS would have let you known that the disk was bad on the LCD, you should be able to pull the SMART logs under Status > Health and see if anything's out of the blue. Take a look at the reallocated sector counts, CRC errors and ATA errors, they should be at or close to 0. If everything's looking OK then keep an eye on the NAS at least for the next week or two and make sure nothing odd happens, after that I'd say you're good to go.

dataactive wrote:
Out of interest, how did you run this extended disk test and is it available on the 1100 model? Thanks.. Karl

Unfortunately the sparc based units don't have this boot option. If you have SSH access to the NAS you can always run "smartctl -t long /dev/hdX". hdc would be disk 1, hde is disk 2, hdg is disk 3, hdi is disk 4.

Otherwise you can test the disks using the manufacturer's testing tools (see the FAQ here).