A few hours ago I complained about the dmraid initialisation taking ages.
Well dodged a bullet there I think.
Maybe I should always just run a "dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/newDrive" before using them.
This one was old but still brand new. It most likely got damaged in shipping (but too late to complain to the vendor about it as I had laying it around for a while myself too...
LOL it's even more funny. The failing drive wasn't even part of the raid6. It just sat in the slot next to the drives in the storage and was entirely idle.
(spared out 4x 5TB drives as the current storage cannot handle them and only detects them as 2TB drives. Still completely new and technically it should have been parked at that time too. Interesting)
But smartctl says it is (still) fine.
Lets run a quick selftest "smartctl -t short /dev/sdp" then....
Completed without errors.
Hmm... Maybe just an issue related to the controller and disk array then...
Klaus Frank