Drive Reconnection Count - reset?

[DennisT]

I have a FS1018 that experienced a drive reconnection issue months ago. I reseated the drives and the count has remained static since then. However every month I now get a warning in the Monthly Disk Health Report about the Drive Reconnection Count. Is there a way to reset this number?

 

[akahan]

Take note of the serial number of the drive.
Connect to the machine using SSH and edit /var/log/disk_overview.xml.
Find the XML tag with that serial number and delete it.
Reboot the machine. It will re-create the XML entry starting from scratch.

 

[DennisT]

Thanks. I'll make the change tonight.

 

[akahan]

Hm, maybe don't bother; I just tried it on one of mine, and it didn't work, though I could swear it used to... Let me look into this a little deeper.

 

[akahan]

After looking into it, I can't find a way to reset the count on the current version of DSM. Maybe someone smarter than I will be able to figure it out. Challenge made!

 

[itsjasper]

pretty sure this is a drive-based counter, in SMART.