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I sometimes get these annoying messages from smartd. They only occur with Samsung HD103SIS SATA disks. According to my google research, these messages are not harmful and a Samsung speciality. One reason for me to avoid Samsung in future. The messages should disappear after a reboot. However, since the disks are built into a RAID1 on a 24x7 server I want to avoid rebooting the server. Instead I can get rid of these messages without a reboot when overwriting the whole disk with zeros. Please click [[Device: /dev/sda, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors|here]] for details.
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== Removing the disk from the array ==

The first step is remove the corresponding disk from the array. This is first done by failing the disk and afterwards removing it. In my case, the disk is part of three RAID1 volumes md0, md1 and md2:

 mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --fail /dev/sda1
 mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --remove /dev/sda1
 
 mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --fail /dev/sda3
 mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --remove /dev/sda3
 
 mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --fail /dev/sda4
 mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --remove /dev/sda4

== Zeroing the disk ==

Since the disk is removed from the RAID it is safe now to overwrite is with zeroes. As soon as the disk is completely zeroed out, the messages disappear. In my case, the disk is 1TB:

 cat /dev/zero | pv -s 1000G | dd of=/dev/sda bs=100M

== Recreate partition layout ==

Now you have to recreate the partition layout with fdisk or cfdisk. In my case, the two RAID1 disks are identical, so I can copy the partition layout from the other disk:

 sfdisk -d /dev/sdb | sfdisk /dev/sda 
 sfdisk -R /dev/sda

== Adding the disk to the RAID ==

This is simple as before:

 mdadm --manage /dev/md0 --add /dev/sda1
 mdadm --manage /dev/md2 --add /dev/sda3
 mdadm --manage /dev/md1 --add /dev/sda4

== reinstall grub ==

In my case I installed grub on both disks. In case of failure of a single disk, the system is always fully bootable and running.

 grub-install /dev/sda

Or if you use symbolic names (like me), just reinstall on both devices:

 grub-install /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD103SIS1VSJ1KS300499
 grub-install /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_HD103SIS1VSJ1KS300505

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