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Thanks much, I went through a bunch of ssh mess and tried to restart it manually, but the device changed from sdh to sdi after it dropped offline. Thanks a ton for your nice assistance.

Man, you really don't like USB. I would say thanks for your info, but not helpful at all. I'll move on. This usb interface clearly does identify by the serial number, and after 4 days of rebuild with 0 errors, I'd say it's pretty stable. This is not a huge problem. I can start over. Just wanted to know if any you smart guys could help me avoid doing that. And I didn't experienace a dropped usb connection, I experienced an interruption to the parity operation because of a usb plugin activation. Drive size is correct, all that. Healthy smart info reported. This is not just a dinky cable, it's a decent hard drive dock. Next time, don't condescend to people who ask for help.

Thanks for your input. I assume if I just cancel the rebuild and then put the disks in the computer, not on USB, it’ll probably go much faster. That’s probably what I’ll end up doing, but I figured I would ask for help before going nuclear.

So your solution is telling me that what I have done that has failed is not recommended? That became clear to me when the operation stopped. What I’m asking for is help in resuming the parity rebuild that is at 95% so that I don’t have to start over and maybe next time I can do all the things that are recommended correctly.

Understood, I used usb to get the rebuild started without restarting as other operations were ongoing. I fully plan to move it, and 2 new disks to server and attach to my LSI controller.

Checked the system log and this is the error that has been thrown repeatedly. "May 29 08:10:59 buttsnake kernel: device offline error, dev sdh, sector 29753410160 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x4000 phys_seg 30 prio class 0 May 29 08:10:59 buttsnake kernel: md: disk29 write error, sector=29753410096..." Then after a zillion more of those, at the very end of these errors "May 29 08:10:59 buttsnake kernel: md: disk29 write error, sector=29753411200 May 29 08:10:59 buttsnake kernel: md: recovery thread: exit status: -4" I think the usb operation was interrupted (its in a usb dock) - when i installed a usb plugin and did something without thinking. I looked at Common Problems and errors and it says "ERRORS FOUNDSUGGESTED FIX Disk parity2 has an HPA partition enabled on itIf this is your parity disk, then you must remove the HPA partition, because its presence will impact the ability (as in you may not be able to do it) rebuild a disabled drive and/or expand your array. It is not so important if this is present on a data/cache disk. See assistance on unRaids forums for help with the commands to fix this issue. Sample of forum posts This issue mainly affects hard drives that are currently installed in, or have been in a system with a Gigabyte motherboard" So I probably need to do something to remove that partition without messing up the parity operation if possible.

I have a 16tb hdd that I purchased to use for parity. Started rebuilding 4 days ago. Today, like a dummy, I did something that paused the parity rebuild at 95%. I tried to just “resume” but won’t resume. It still says “parity is running” so I don’t think the whole operation is lost. Would love to not have to wait another 5 days on this. Any help would be super appreciated! Diagnostics are attached, thanks in advance for any help!! scott buttsnake-diagnostics-20230529-1144.zip

So I went to the browser and everything popped up and I was elated like a little kid! Now begins the loading of drives and setting up of UnRaid … Thank you so much for everyone that helped. I was exasperated and now I am excited!

I removed the USB stick that I was using which was a SanDisk USB 3.0 stick, and plugged in an older USB 2.0 stick to a USB 2.0 port and when I booted I was able to get a local IP address given by my router. I’m going to try to do some set up and I’ll report back.

I have. I also have a windows 10 installation that works just fine. It’s on an m.2 AIC So that I can put it in and pull it out to test. Just for the heck of it I’ll test it again. I’m also using Netgear home plug extenders, so I’m going to plug directly into the back of the router and try that. So I’ll cut out the hub and the netgear device. I also read on some other thread that one guy remedied the problem by rebooting the router. I’ve done that and it didn’t make a difference. I’ve also seen that there are some commands to get the status of the Internet stuff from the command line that I was going to try.

Same issues as before, removed all network cables from my motherboard onboard nics, And added a TP Link gigabit network card to the top PCI slot and still nothing. By “nothing”, I mean I can’t boot to a GUI and when I login to UNRAID at the console, I get the strange outside IP address is my IP V4 address. 169.254.... I also have a IPMI on the motherboard and it registers as “192.168.1.90” and is always seen in my network. Attached to a four port hub, same as the IPMI cable. Maybe I’ll switch cables, who knows...

Tried the beta but still strange ip configuration. Moved my network cables to different ports on the motherboard, just to see if it made a difference and it did not. Went into the bios setup and re-enabled PXE boot just to see if that might force an 'awakening' of the network adapters. Can't boot to the gui either, I think I might add an aftermarket nic and see if that does anything different.

Thanks much!! I am using 6.8.3 but will go back and rework the usb drive for the 6.9.0 beta release. Thanks for the quick reply!!

Let me first say that while I am completely new to UNRAID, I'm very experienced with computer hardware, building, setups, linux distros, freenas etc. I do not have any syslog info because I'm apparently insane or suffering a nervous breakdown. I can not get unraid to boot to any gui on my supermicro x11ssz-tln4f server. i can't get it to show up in a browser on a computer that's wired to my network, or from any wireless device. i tried 'http://tower/" and "http://tower.local" and no dice. can't get to a web gui. I have my motherboard set to UEFI and have configured the 16Gb Usb 3.0 Sandisk USB stick to boot to UEFI and use a DHCP server, which is what I use with my netgear Nighthawk router. one strange thing is that when i look at the boot process of unraid, where i would normally hope to see a local "192.168.x.x" ip address, i see one that is very different - "168.254.114.187" I'm at my wits end. Please help me be less uninformed and desperate. :)