Hi All,
I’ve added my first spare drive, and it won’t appear as available. The drive initially appeared as I’d expected, with the error about “Drive Integrity Feature.” I ran an sg_format successfully, and from that point on, the drive appears in the list of disks. It’s listed as n/a in Pools. I tried re-running sg_format, which also succeeded, and here I am.
The drive is not listed as Available on the Storage tab. It does not appear as available to add as a spare in the Pool wizard.
How do I get it from whatever limbo it’s in, to becoming a ready-to-use spare?
System Info: Hardware:
Dell T430 (Single Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz)
32gb SK HYNIX 16GB HMA82GR7MFR8N-UH DDR4-2400 ECC RDIMM 2Rx8 PC4-19200T-R CL17 Server Memory
I’m sorry, but for some reason I can’t identify what drive you’re actually having trouble with.
Can you please point it out among the hardware you listed?
A smartctl -a on the drive(s) could also be useful.
Thank you NeoFusion for your reply. There is no command “smartctl” from either SSH or shell. Is it part of a package that isn’t included?
I now have 2 ST2000LM007 1R81 drives that show every sign of being ready-to-use, but not listed as Available to be added in any part of the GUI.
Freshly formatted, showing full details and SMART statistics, showing “n/a” for pool membership, and there’s nothing I can do with them. (They have both been powered-down after formatting.)
/dev/sdk----------------------------------------------------
homecloud% sudo sg_readcap /dev/sdk
Read Capacity results:
Last LBA=3719165191 (0xddadf507), Number of logical blocks=3719165192
Logical block length=528 bytes
Hence:
Device size: 1963719221376 bytes, 1872748.6 MiB, 1963.72 GB
SMARTCTL -A OUTPUT------------------------------------------
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST2000NX0463
Revision: NT32
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 1,963,719,221,376 bytes [1.96 TB]
Logical block size: 528 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c500c1b47137
Serial number: W4625GNF
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4)
Local Time is: Wed Sep 10 14:33:57 2025 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Grown defects during certification = 0
Total blocks reassigned during format = 0
Total new blocks reassigned = 0
Power on minutes since format = 1696
Current Drive Temperature: 41 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 60 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 41989:12
Manufactured in week 20 of year 2019
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 44
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 1949
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate Cache) information
Blocks sent to initiator = 2031994592
Blocks received from initiator = 2641566525
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 3281797644
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 660300110
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 49990
Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 41989.20
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 55
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 2655443265 1281 0 2655444546 1281 1069734.976 0
write: 0 0 294 294 294 499648.500 0
verify: 697579081 8 0 697579089 8 3345.498 0
Non-medium error count: 16
SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background short Completed 96 41975 - [- - -]
# 2 Background short Completed 96 41927 - [- - -]
# 3 Background short Completed 96 41903 - [- - -]
# 4 Background short Completed 96 41879 - [- - -]
# 5 Background short Completed 96 41855 - [- - -]
# 6 Background long Completed 96 41835 - [- - -]
# 7 Background short Completed 96 41818 - [- - -]
# 8 Default Completed 96 41798 - [- - -]
# 9 Background short Completed 96 41783 - [- - -]
#10 Background short Completed 96 41759 - [- - -]
#11 Background short Completed 96 41735 - [- - -]
#12 Background short Completed 96 41724 - [- - -]
#13 Background short Completed 96 41597 - [- - -]
#14 Background short Completed 96 41526 - [- - -]
#15 Reserved(7) Completed 64 7 - [- - -]
#16 Background short Completed 96 5 - [- - -]
Long (extended) Self-test duration: 20400 seconds [5.7 hours]
/dev/sdl----------------------------------------------------
homecloud% sudo sg_readcap /dev/sdl
Read Capacity results:
Last LBA=3719165191 (0xddadf507), Number of logical blocks=3719165192
Logical block length=528 bytes
Hence:
Device size: 1963719221376 bytes, 1872748.6 MiB, 1963.72 GB
SMARTCTL -A OUTPUT-----------------------------------------
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST2000NX0463
Revision: NT32
Compliance: SPC-4
User Capacity: 1,963,719,221,376 bytes [1.96 TB]
Logical block size: 528 bytes
LU is fully provisioned
Rotation Rate: 7200 rpm
Form Factor: 2.5 inches
Logical Unit id: 0x5000c500a0202b23
Serial number: W460NSK1
Device type: disk
Transport protocol: SAS (SPL-4)
Local Time is: Wed Sep 10 14:35:02 2025 CDT
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled
Temperature Warning: Enabled
=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Health Status: OK
Grown defects during certification = 0
Total blocks reassigned during format = 0
Total new blocks reassigned = 0
Power on minutes since format = 1014
Current Drive Temperature: 43 C
Drive Trip Temperature: 60 C
Accumulated power on time, hours:minutes 64391:54
Manufactured in week 31 of year 2017
Specified cycle count over device lifetime: 10000
Accumulated start-stop cycles: 57
Specified load-unload count over device lifetime: 300000
Accumulated load-unload cycles: 2730
Elements in grown defect list: 0
Vendor (Seagate Cache) information
Blocks sent to initiator = 776113720
Blocks received from initiator = 2619942316
Blocks read from cache and sent to initiator = 1591067274
Number of read and write commands whose size <= segment size = 63072718
Number of read and write commands whose size > segment size = 21
Vendor (Seagate/Hitachi) factory information
number of hours powered up = 64391.90
number of minutes until next internal SMART test = 37
Error counter log:
Errors Corrected by Total Correction Gigabytes Total
ECC rereads/ errors algorithm processed uncorrected
fast | delayed rewrites corrected invocations [10^9 bytes] errors
read: 917486418 0 0 917486418 0 80784.413 0
write: 0 0 0 0 0 12585.580 0
verify: 75603492 0 0 75603492 0 20.954 0
Non-medium error count: 4
SMART Self-test log
Num Test Status segment LifeTime LBA_first_err [SK ASC ASQ]
Description number (hours)
# 1 Background short Completed 96 64354 - [- - -]
# 2 Background short Completed 96 64319 - [- - -]
# 3 Reserved(7) Completed 64 5 - [- - -]
# 4 Background short Completed 96 3 - [- - -]
Long (extended) Self-test duration: 20400 seconds [5.7 hours]
Success.
Steps:
From an SSH session: sudo sg_format --format --size=512 /dev/sd_
(Will take many, many hours. If you do lose connection, it might keep running in the background. To see the progress, if it is, use: sudo sg_turs -p /dev/sd_
Reboot the entire system.
(WTF?)
Visit Storage page and bask in the new, unused drives appearing. Add these spares from that Storage page through means I have forgotten in a mere 15 minutes. My powers of anti-recollection are galactic.
