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Certify error - Disk hung during a write

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(@john-palaganas)
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Hello,

I'm trying to certify a newly installed disk. I get this error. I tried it again and got the error again. What can I do?

Thank you!

 
Posted : 24/01/2021 5:59 pm
(@john-palaganas)
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Additional information on SoftRAID

 
Posted : 24/01/2021 6:31 pm
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This is telling you that your disk subsystem is not reliable.

However, write problems are more often cable, connection, enclosure type issues, as writes are performed "blind".

You can attach a SoftRAID Technical support file, I can take a look for more detail

 
Posted : 24/01/2021 8:30 pm
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Thank you, I would appreciate any help. I thought it's the new hard drive I bought.

 
Posted : 24/01/2021 10:08 pm
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@john-palaganas

I am not sure yet. The drive is getting write errors, which is unusual.

What enclosure is this? It appears to be a WD raw drive, not in an enclosure as sold?

What if you connect it direct to the Mac? Or a different cable? By itself?

 
Posted : 24/01/2021 11:05 pm
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@softraid-support it’s the OWC Mercury Elite Pro Dual 2-Bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure.

The enclosure is connected to a Caldigit TS3 Plus dock along with my other drives. It’s on an M1 MacBook Pro.

I can’t directly connect it to my MacBook since the enclosure is only Thunderbolt and not TB3. I use a USB3 from the enclosure to the Caldigit TS3 plus dock. Will try to find another USB3 cable.

 

The enclosure works because I have(had) a Softraid Raid 1. Im just trying to replace 1 disk. It’s a Western Digital Black 4TB.

This new disk I installed is not formatted, do I need to format it first before doing a “Certify”?

 

 
Posted : 25/01/2021 12:00 am
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@john-palaganas

A certify operation is a very low level read/write operation on a disk. A disk should never fail a certify, it means it is not suitable for operation. Its possible this is a bad disk, yes. It is also possible it is something else, as I mentioned, writes are rare for a disk to fail, it is almost always on a read cycle, as the problem is the disk cannot read back what was written.

Write failures generally mean an I/O operation has failed, which can be the disk, but could also mean cables, enclosure, etc. But it 100% means something in your setup is not reliable for data.

Certify does not use the SoftRAID driver. It cannot be a "bug" in SoftRAID, FYI.

 
Posted : 25/01/2021 2:30 am
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@softraid-support Thank you, I replaced the USB cable and the certification process hasn't stopped.

 
Posted : 25/01/2021 12:47 pm
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