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Yup, that was the issue. I just went into router and gave the new box a static IP address as it should've been assigned. It's so close to being what it should be, I guess my eyes, and the microsoft tech eyes, just would see what they expected to see! Once again Frank, you got me back up and running! Cheers

Hi Frank....been awhile since I've chatted with you! No I can't ping the server. I think I found the potential issue thanks to you. IP Address of the problem child is 192.168.5.15 Unraid server is 162.168.4.197 I think we found the outlier. that IP should be assigned as 192.168.4.15 vice the 5 in the 3rd slot assignment. I'll try and change that and see what happens. Thanks.

I really, really, hate to reopen this. But I'm in the same boat, sort of as the originator of the post. I was chugging along fine and accessing my Unraid Server when all the sudden, it was gone. I had some glitches with windows 11 and did a reinstall. I'm reinstalled around 10 times, to include the 2 times microsoft did it remotely. Nothing. I've done all the setup steps in windows and still nothing. I have a 2nd Unraid server as a backup and the PC has no problem seeing it and accessing it immediately. I haven't added any new devices that might have caused an issue either. This is on a wired network too. I have my routers guest services shut down and my PC's WiFi, Bluetooth is off as well. Microsoft is absolutely no help. I've ensure my workgroup name is the same as my PCs and the rest of my devices. I checked on my other server and set up the SMB settings exactly the same (Enable SMB - Yes, Enable Netbios - yes, Enable WSD - Yes) I have no clue on this one. I have 3 other PCs and a laptop that see my unraid server just fine. All of them are on the wired Ethernet. In fact, to check the router, I connected my laptop via wired connection to the same switch as the PC.....no problems seeing it. I can't access the GUI for the server, I search for the IP address and it can't be found, etc., etc., etc.,. I'm literally out of ideas. Any thoughts anyone??? Please! Thanks

Thanks Jorge.....I've been trying to find a used one out of a server pull, but not a lot of luck finding a US vendor. Cables are a crapshoot too.

Well, this took an interesting turn. I've been tracking how many times I tried to manually and/or automatically get this to see my Tower2 share remotely. Same with rebooting. I tried to load the share 43 times. I rebooted, both machines 5 times. Guess what? On the 5th reboot of both machines, all the sudden it saw the share. I don't get it! I guess the secret is to just reboot until it works!

I forgot to mention that when I go into Tower2 and click on the highlighted mountpoint, after mounting, I get the entire share index list. Since I can't mount Tower2 from Tower, the mountpoint is highlighted but since it isn't mounted, I'm not getting the index. So I guess it comes down to this: Why can't it find the mountpoint correctly?

Well, I'm back. Had everything running in above configuration then disaster struck. Water leak from dishwasher cascaded through the floor into my basement and ruined my backup server (Tower2). All back up and running but I can't my primary (Tower) to mount my backup server-Tower2. 1. Went into the unassigned devices menu and found the server 2. Tried to load shares but they couldn't be found, so I backed up, came back in and manually loaded. 3. Everything said success and looked exactly like how Tower is mounted on Tower2 (see picture 1) 4. I click mount and get failure (picture 2) 5. Sooooo, I go to syslog (picture 3) What am I missing here? Picture 4 shows my primary server (Tower) successfully mounted from the Backup (Tower2). Not sure which way to go now. I've rebooted both. Checked NFS setting for both and they are identical. (yes and 330) Thanks in advance.

Greetings all. I have a LSI 9305-24i w/8087 backplane connectors....I'm beginning to think it's garbage since I keep getting disk errors. I've checked connections repeatedly and also set up a dual 92mm GPU cooling fan to keep it cool. Still issues. Are there any better HBA's with 8087 connections out there for 24 bay boxes? thanks

I did but it didn't mount. Figured it out though. Had to get the mount point right. Now when I go into MC, click remotes, I'm where I want to be. Thanks for the tips JonathanM

Hmmmm, I don't see anything when I try that. Below is shot from my primary server and the box is mount box is orange and not gray with the green ball. I assume it's like a drive and it's connected, yes?

I'm back. Having never done this. I went into Unassigned on both machines. Notice that there was a section to set up NFS Shares. I went into settings and enabled NFS. I then set up NFS Shares to mount for both machines. How do I get MC to see the other server? I set up the servers to see each others media share., have a green ball beside them on the main tab. Pretty much stuck now.

OK, thank you! First time I've had to do a mass migration.

I have to move about 40tb of files from one unraid server to another on my network. Is there a way to configure the 2 servers so I can move them with Krusader, or even MC? If so does anyone have a procedure or link with the forums to do that? Thanks in advance

Server completely back up and operational after the MOBO swap and adding a big double cooling fan to blow on the HBA. No problems on rebuild, even stressed the system by adding video files while rebuilding. No problems, rebuild speed held steady averaging around 140 mb/s . Looks like cooling did the trick.

shpitz461...big thank you....I think you confirmed what I discovered this afternoon. I had everything back up and operational...stressed it with some file loads, etc. Then thought, "what the heck, I've a 20TB WD Red Plus, lets swap out a 12TB and put this on. Everything was fine until I was at 75% complete on the data rebuild on the WD drive. Suddenly, disk 5, my Toshiba drive (AGAIN) got 24,000+) UDMA/CRC errors. Since I was already working with a different 9300-8i, decided to swap out the MOBO to eliminate the PCIe slot as a culprit. Thankfully, I purchased a dual 92mm Graphic Card Fan to blow right on that thing! It came in the mail today, so hopefully that is the fix! tower-diagnostics-20240617-1334.zip

As I was doing the build, had another disk drop out...it was the one that I swapped the 20TB Toshiba with that was working fine. Soooo, I had another 18TB that was brand new. Put it in but this time, I connected it to the onboard SATA (only have one slot left now for onboard SATA). Booted everything up and both the 18TB and the Toshiba 20TB rebuild and are up and running (Thank goodness I went to 2 parity disks a long time ago!). This eliminates that the problem was 20TB drives. I included the diagnostics for when I received the failure and after recovery. Maybe y'all can see something I can't. It does have me wondering if for some reason, one lane on the 9300-8i has failed (I understand it's usually all or nothing failures.) or maybe the MOBO PCIe slot has gone bad where it isn't fully powering the 9300-8i. I think I have it narrowed down to one or the other. I'm just not quite sure how I'm going to narrow it down to one or the other short of putting in a new MOBO or when my 24 port HBA shows up for my backup server, put it's 9300-8i in. I previously had that 9300-8i attached and was receiving the same issue. BUT, I hadn't updated the firmware either. If y'all can think of anything else to troubleshoot and narrow it down, I'd be grateful. I'm running out of ideas. Thank you disk attached to HBA.zip disk attached to MOBO SATA port.zip

rebuild holding at around 134 mb/sec. so were fine now. I think after the rebuild, I'll change MOBO's and CPUs since I have a spare. I've a couple of 12TB disk on the array. I may swap one out with the WD Red Pro and see what happens with a newer MOBO and CPU. Try to isolate the issue and completely rule out the LSI 9300-8i. My contribution to the community if I can rule it out!

I swapped out the sata connector, cleared and reformatted the drive and restarted. It's doing 60 mb/sec now, which is normal for my rig. I'm monitoring but what are the chances that 2 new 20TB drives, from 2 different companies, could both be bad? I'd think I'd have better odds in the lottery... That said, I'm running a 750W PSU. 15 drives, as LSI 9300-8i, a graphics card, a USB cache and USB uNRAID drive and two backplane cages with fans. I wouldn't think that would max out the power, even with an intel i7-7820 CPU....my estimates are I should have a power reserve. Conservative estimate, I'm using 500w of power total.

C. Don't think that is the issue as the WD Red Pro and Toshiba N300 are standard SATA drives. I've looked on the forum and quite a few people are using 20TB plus. But Jorge would know if anyone has had issues with 20TBs and SAS 9300-8i....I don't get it. Still thinking it's MOBO related because now I have a NEW and exciting issue... Build was going great, showed around 18 hours or so to build. Quite suddenly the speed dropped to under 3 mb/sec and is showing 85 days to build!!!! That is crazy. (I did fix the network error of not showing on my network.....tip worked its way out a bit. Looks like a re-tip for the cable is next on the list after getting all this sorted out.) tower-diagnostics-20240612-1026.zip

Hi cbeitel... I agree something is hardware related and yes, latest issues started when we lost power and then when it came back on, the connection literally surged through, blew out my UPS and killed 8 drives on my backup server. My primary seemed to be okay, until all this started the other day. I'm operating without an UPS until new one arrives. I managed to swap drive slots to a MOBO sata without killing a 2nd drive! The Toshiba 20TB started building and seemed to be fine. I stopped and started over again and tried the 20TB WD Red Pro....again, it started building fine. I put the Toshiba back in and currently monitoring but all seems to be fine. The drive I put into the backplane connection is running fine. Of note, it was an 18TB drive. Soooo, I have to wonder what is really going on? I replaced the backplane cage with one that I knew was 100% working, put on new SFF-8643 cables from the 9300-8i, and put in a new 9300-8i. Issue never disappeared. Both my 20TB parity drives are connected to MOBO Sata. Makes me start to wonder if the LSI 9300-8i can't handle 20TB, or greater, disks? If so, we as a community have a bigger issue as this limits your ability to expanded to larger drives. Latest firmware for the board is 2019. Don't recall anyone having 20TB disks out then. Now the question could become, "which HBAs and expanders can handle 20TB or greater disks?"

Went to try and see if I could swap and not lose another disk in the process. Now I'm finding that the server can't be accessed via network on the GUI to shutdown. Showing not connected on the network. So now I'm having another issue. I'm really beginning to think this is a MOBO issue/CPU issue I'll get back to you after I get the box back up and on the network and see if I can swap

Thought I'd try the original disk, the Toshiba, and see what would happen. It got a little farther down the road but same results. I'm starting to really wonder if this is a MOBO/CPU issue....I've done everything else but swap out the MOBO and CPU. tower-diagnostics-20240611-2149.zip

Jorge....updated firmware, same results tower-diagnostics-20240611-2129.zip

OK, I'll try....where do you see the firmware version out of curiosity?

Nope, swapping to another slot didn't help...now I'm wondering if there is something with these newer 20TB WD and Toshiba drives that the LSI 9300 doesn't like. The other 20TB drives I have, that are my parity drives, are shucked drives and doesn't seem to be an issue...... I'm really baffled now tower-diagnostics-20240611-1356.zip