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I would suspect #1, but it is possible the issue is #2.
If you can, pull the drive out and plug it into a different controller,
perhaps a USB dock. Same results there means it is the drive.
> I have four identical Seagate Barracuda 2TB HDD Sata drives (model#
> ST2000DM001) in a zfs pool on a linux server. Today, zfs refused to
> recognized one of the drives (drive is reported as UNAVAILABLE).
>
> When I try to check the drive's health with smartctl I get the following
> message:
>
> >sudo smartctl -H -d ata /dev/sdb
> smartctl 6.3 2014-07-26 r3976 [x86_64-linux-3.19.2-1-ARCH] (local build)
> Copyright (C) 2002-14, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke,
> www.smartmontools.org
>
> Read Device Identity failed: Invalid argument
>
> A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more
> '-T
> permissive' options.
>
> The same smartctl command on the other three drives runs with no issues
> (drives are accessed and health status is PASSED).
>
>
> My question is:
>
> Does smartctl's response indicate
>
> (1) that the drive is completely toast or
> (2) does it rather point toward a problem with the controller?
> (3) or perhaps it means sometjhing different altogether?
>
>
> Thanks for the help
>
>
> Stefano
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