Good morning all,
I'm running the latest 5.0-rc8a, with two 2TB WD Green data drives, 1 2TB WD Green parity drive, and one 500GB Maxtor cache drive.
I noticed yesterday that my second data drive was unassigned, and in unMENU was showing as DISK_INVALID.
Shut the server down, checked cables, rebooted, the disk was there, but had a yellow dot next to it.
Tried rebuilding it, was taking forever (300kb/sec), cancelled it.
At this point, my parity drive showed as unassigned! Rebooted, the drive is assigned but with a blue dot (new drive).
I'm not sure where to go from here- I fear that I now have a lost second data drive with an invalid parity drive that I can't use to rebuild from.
I have the option of starting the array and parity-syncing, but I fear what would happen if I did this.
I'll be heading out today to pick up a new 2TB disk. I'm thinking of dd'ing the second data disk to this new drive as a backup in case the worst happens.
So to recap, I currently have my second data drive with a yellow dot and my parity drive with a blue dot, array is not started.
I welcome your advice.
Dave