What would cause the GUI to not recognize a HDD as such?

Chicken76

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I just noticed on my Proxmox 5.0 machine that one of the hard drives is listed as of type "Unknown" and was wondering what's the cause?
The drive is accessible, mounted and SMART stats look OK.

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Do you think there is anything to worry about?
 
Please post the output of

Code:
lsblk -S

Code:
# lsblk -S
NAME HCTL       TYPE VENDOR   MODEL             REV TRAN
sda  0:0:0:0    disk ATA      WDC WD7500BPKX-0 1A01 sata
sdb  1:0:0:0    disk ATA      WDC WD7500BPKX-0 1A01 sata
sdc  2:0:0:0    disk ATA      WDC WD20EZRX-00D 0A80 sata
sdd  3:0:0:0    disk ATA      WDC WD20EARS-00M AB51 sata
 
can you post the content of following files/commands?
Code:
/sys/block/sdd/queue/rotational
udevadm info -p /sys/block/sdd --query all
 
can you post the content of following files/commands?
Code:
/sys/block/sdd/queue/rotational
udevadm info -p /sys/block/sdd --query all

Here are the outputs:
Code:
root@pve:~# cat /sys/block/sdd/queue/rotational
1
root@pve:~# udevadm info -p /sys/block/sdd --query all
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0/ata4/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdd
N: sdd
S: disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WCAZA2662829
S: disk/by-id/wwn-0x50014ee2affc39aa
S: disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-4
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/disk/by-id/wwn-0x50014ee2affc39aa /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WCAZA2662829 /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-4
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sdd
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:17.0/ata4/host3/target3:0:0/3:0:0:0/block/sdd
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID_ATA=1
E: ID_ATA_DOWNLOAD_MICROCODE=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_AAM=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_AAM_CURRENT_VALUE=254
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_AAM_ENABLED=0
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_AAM_VENDOR_RECOMMENDED_VALUE=128
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_HPA=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_HPA_ENABLED=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_PM=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_PM_ENABLED=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_PUIS=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_PUIS_ENABLED=0
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_SECURITY=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_SECURITY_ENABLED=0
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_SECURITY_ENHANCED_ERASE_UNIT_MIN=364
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_SECURITY_ERASE_UNIT_MIN=364
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_SECURITY_FROZEN=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_SMART=1
E: ID_ATA_FEATURE_SET_SMART_ENABLED=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA_SIGNAL_RATE_GEN1=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA_SIGNAL_RATE_GEN2=1
E: ID_ATA_WRITE_CACHE=1
E: ID_ATA_WRITE_CACHE_ENABLED=1
E: ID_BUS=ata
E: ID_MODEL=WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=WDC\x20WD20EARS-00MVWB0\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_PART_TABLE_TYPE=gpt
E: ID_PART_TABLE_UUID=894c21e9-88d1-4d34-962a-e837f545107f
E: ID_PATH=pci-0000:00:17.0-ata-4
E: ID_PATH_TAG=pci-0000_00_17_0-ata-4
E: ID_REVISION=51.0AB51
E: ID_SERIAL=WDC_WD20EARS-00MVWB0_WD-WCAZA2662829
E: ID_SERIAL_SHORT=WD-WCAZA2662829
E: ID_TYPE=disk
E: ID_WWN=0x50014ee2affc39aa
E: ID_WWN_WITH_EXTENSION=0x50014ee2affc39aa
E: MAJOR=8
E: MINOR=48
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: TAGS=:systemd:
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=2111752
 
ok, for some reason the drive/kernel does not expose the
ID_ATA_ROTATION_RATE_RPM parameter, so we do not know what type it is..
but aside from displaying unknown, there should be no ill effects
 
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ok, for some reason the drive/kernel does not expose the
ID_ATA_ROTATION_RATE_RPM parameter, so we do not know what type it is..
but aside from displaying unknown, there should be no ill effects

So nothing to worry about.
Thanks.
 

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