I am setting up a NAS with 8 known-good 8TB WD Red drives from a previous NAS. When I configure RAID 6 across these drives my (untested) LSI MegaRAID 9265-8I starts beeping and reports that that drive is bad. However, when I run WD's LifeGuard Diagnostics it reports that all of the SMART tests pass.
MegaRaid failure event as reported by MegaCli:
Code: 0x00000191
Class: 2
Locale: 0x02
Event Description: Diagnostics failed for PD 18(e0xfc/s7)
Event Data:
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Device ID: 24
Enclosure Index: 252
Slot Number: 7
Things I have tried so far:
- Erasing the "Bad" drive completely
- Setting the "Bad" status to "Good" and reconfiguring the array
- Swapping the SFF and sata cables (the same drive failed in any position)
Anyone know what else I should try or if I am likely looking at a bad drive or a bad RAID controller?