


The output of the smartctl -a /dev/ada2 is displayed below. The drive appears to be working fine and the server is running as it should. I've include output from the smartctl programs in my original message which show the errors I'm seeing. But is the drive really going bad or is this some quirk in the FreeNAS smartctl program. Without a failure in the Seagate SMART test which produces an RMA number, I cannot RMA the drive. So I'm getting conflicting results from the smartctl command used in FreeNAS vs the SMART test used by Seagate. Next I rebooted FreeNAS and did another smartctl short test which showed none of the ID 197 and 198 errors but did show and "ATA Error Count: 5" message followed by what appeared to be descriptions of the errors. I ran Seagate's Short test and long test and both passed. I shut down the system and checked all the cables and their connections and then boot the system with the Seagate SeaTools diagnostic disk. I then ran the a smartctl short test on the drive and IDs 197 and 198 showed errors. I read the "Hard Drive Troubleshooting Guide" here on the forum. I received what appeared to be an SMART error message on one of my 4TB IronWolf drives which is in a RAID-Z2 pool.

I posted a message on Sunday to which I received no responses so I'll repost with different parameters.
