Hi Everyone,
I setup a 3 disk unRAID server about 3 weeks ago. It ran great. I had three free SATA ports on my MOBO. My end goal is to have a 21 drive (including cache) system. So I ordered two SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 controllers and unRAID Pro. I got unRAID pro about a week ago and added the next three disks. No issues. I started copying my media from my old server to my new unRAID server. Again, no issues. The controller cards cam in yesterday, and I put one in. I added two more drives, again no issues. I then copied about 250 GB of data to the 1.75TB array. This morning before I left for work I started a 330 GB move. I have TeamViewer setup on my machine so I can remote in and monitor the transfer. About 14 GB into the transfer the array just dropped off the network. I could not load the web pages or ping it. I went home for lunch and the console was also unresponsive, so I had to hard reset the machine. When it came back up, 6 of the 7 data drives were showing as UNFORMATTED and the last one, which was actually part of another user share was showing as OK. Of course I panicked and hit the forums. I found how to copy the syslog off to the flash key, and took a look, but I dunno what to look for. Anyway it's attached.
I also had unmenu installed, so I went to that web page to get some more info. It showed that all 8 drives were correctly detected, but only the parity and disk7 were mounted. The server was running a parity check. No suggestion from the forums allowed me to stop the array or power off the machine. I couldn't even kill anything or shutdown from the console, it would accept the commend and then issue a single beep. I didn't want to just hit the power switch for fear that I would loose my data, so I kept trying to stop the parity check in the unmenu Array Management page. It kept producing an error, but as I would refresh the page I would start to see the other disks getting mounted. After about 5 or so minutes all the drive mounted and the partiy check completed. After which the array showed as started and I was able to control the system again.
My current setup:
mobo: TYAN Tomcat S5112 - P4 w/ HT, 4GB RAM
PS: 550W Antec
SATA: 6 onboard and one of two AOC-SAT2-MV8 controllers
Drives: 8 x WD2500JD
unRAID 4.5 Pro
The 8 disks are setup in two user shares with simple security:
disks 1-6 - Movies
disk 7 - Users
The array is currently online, but idle. I dunno if this was just a fluke, but any help/suggestions would be appreciated.
Thanks!