Media errors and unreadable sectors – Dell PowerVault MD3200i User Manual

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Management: Firmware Downloads

• The download failed—The status of one expansion enclosure shows

Failed and the remainder of the expansion enclosures show Canceled.

Make sure that the new firmware file is compatible before attempting

another firmware download.

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting

Technology (SMART)

Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology (SMART) monitors the

internal performance of all physical disk components to detect faults

indicating the potential for physical disk failure. SMART uses this

information to report whether failure is imminent so that a physical disk can

be replaced before failure occurs. The RAID controller monitors all attached

drives and notifies users when a predicted failure is reported by a physical

disk.

Media Errors and Unreadable Sectors

If the RAID controller detects a media error while accessing data from a

physical disk that is a member of a disk group with a redundant RAID level

(RAID 1, RAID 5 or RAID 10), the controller tries to recover the data from

peer disks in the disk group and uses recovered data to correct the error. If the

controller encounters an error while accessing a peer disk, it is unable to

recover the data and affected sectors are added to the unreadable sector log

maintained by the controller. Other conditions under which sectors are added

to the unreadable sector log include:

• A media error is encountered when trying to access a physical disk that is a

member of a non-redundant disk group (RAID 0 or degraded RAID 1,

RAID 5 or RAID 10).

• An error is encountered on source disks during rebuild.

NOTE:

Data on an unreadable sector is no longer accessible.

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