Got SMART warning on drive. Removal seems "stuck."

[kennethclarkloggins]

This drive is reportedly going back according to both Stablebit Scanner and the BIOS.

I'm trying to remove it from the pool, but it says 45% almost instantly and is otherwise stuck.

The DrivePool interface shows no reads or writes.

I tried the "Force Removal of Damaged Drive" and this is the result.

 

Ideas?

[Shane]

If the drive is sufficiently bad, it may not be removable via the UI options while it's still physically connected to the machine.

If you have duplication enabled for its content you can still physically remove it and then remove it in the UI, and DrivePool will reduplicate the content from and to the remaining disks.

If you don't have duplication enabled for its content and don't want to restore from a backup you could manually copy that content to a spare or new disk (how well this works will of course depend on how it's going bad) before physically removing it so that you can reinsert the content back into the pool afterwards.