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Thanks itimpi . I guess I missed that step in the upgrade instructions. Everything works fine now. rick

I just upgraded unRAID from 4.7 to 5.0.5 and cannot access any movies in windows. Windows explorer lists all of the movies in my user share videovault/movies but when I select a movie I get the message " Windows cannot access \\videovault\movies\2010 .. you do not have permission" Do I need to change some setting? I did not have any problem with 4.7. windows explorer lists all of the individual disks in my array under 5.0.5 which it did not with 4.7 but I cannot access the movies under the disk or user share.

Any other ideas? how can I force a recovery on the drive I replaced?

Attached is the smart status report. You can't recover your data on those drives using unraid. The best you can do is clear your configuration and rebuild parity from the remaining drives. Since you are in this particular mess, I can't see any reason why you shouldn't upgrade from 4.7 to 5.05 or the latest 6 beta, it will be easier in the long run. Back up your flash drive, delete everything on it, and follow the directions to set up a new unraid install. Copy your license file from your flash backup to the config folder, and boot up with the new unraid. Assign ALL the listed drives to data slots, be sure to keep the parity slot empty. Start the array and browse the disk shares, you should see your current good drives content just fine, you may be able to see the content of the drive listed as currently failed, if so, copy it some place safe. Capture a full syslog, and smart reports on all your drives, and we can advise you on the best course of action from there. Actually, thinking about this a little more, if the current red ball drive isn't really failed, you might still be able to recover. Since you haven't posted smart reports for your current drives, it's a little premature to start any action right now. Attach smart reports for all the drives currently installed. smart_status_report.txt

Unraid can only rebuild 1 bad drive. If you have 2 drives fail at the same time, you will lose the data on both. Hopefully the drives haven't fully crashed. Try putting the drives back the way they were, and see if it will give you only 1 red ball and let you start the array. Posting smart reports on all your drives would be a good first step to get the information needed to help you. Unfortunately the first bad drive I detected was sent back to WD for replacement under warrenty so I can not reinstall it. How can I recover if two drives are bad and need replacement?

I just had a hard drive fail on my unRAID system. I replaced the drive and now the disk status menu says "Too many wrong and/or missing disks!". It lists both the old model and serial number and the new drive model and serial number for the disk device. A second drive also has a red ball and the command area says that it is Stopped: Invalid configuration. I am running unRAID ver 4.7. I am using SUPERMICRO CSE-M35T-1B Hot-swap SATA HDD Trays and SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI-Express x4 Low Profile SAS RAID Controller. I tried unplugging and reconnecting all of the drive cables on the HDD trays and controller cards, reseating the controller cards and even reseating the memory but with no difference. I looked at the log file but I don't understand it so I attached it to this message. I replaced bad drives before but never had this happen. Any ides what is wrong? syslog-2014-07-04.txt

Problem solved. I forgot to set the USB device configuration to Hard Disk. It has been a couple of years since I originally set up my server and I forgot about the setting. I am now running the memory test.

I just upgraded my motherboard to the F1A75v-EVO and I can't boot from the USB stick that I have been using. I did not connect any of the hard drives to the board because I wanted to just check the system memory first and make sure that the device configuration is cleared before I start the system. I am using Cruzer micro with 4.7 installed along with unmenu. The light on the flash device is on but the display is blank and the board won't boot. What went wrong?

I need to read about unRAID 5 support I don't want to buy something now that may not be compatible with unRAIDd 5. I also want a board with 6Gbps SATA since the new WD drives I bought are 6Gbps drives. The Supermicro SAS RAID card I am using is only 3Gbps hopefully something new will come out with 6Gbps capability. Rick

Loe L. It appears that my motherboard has died. I opened the case to check all the connections to the drive I am having the problem with and I also reseated the SAS RAID card. The system will now turn on but there is no video. I swapped the graphics card but still no video and now get continuous long beeps which the manual says is a power error. I changed the power supply but still get the beeps and no video. So I guess it is time to change the motherboard. What motherboards are now being used for unRaid? I am now using a Gigabyte GA-EP450-UD3. Is there something new that will support the Supermicro AOC-SASLO-MV8 card? Rick

That was just the end because the full file was over 200M. I am using Supermicro hard disk trays but I will check the connections. I would have thought that if drive Smart test completed that the drive could be accessed and there would not be a loose connection. Rick

I missed answering why I replaced the original drive; I just wanted more space and my case is full so I upgraded the drive to a larger size. The original was working fine before I upgraded it. I did the Short Smart Test check and it said that there were no errors but that Drive Partitions - Not In Protected Array. What does that mean? Short_Smart_Test_06062012.txt

Joe L. Here is the syslog. What I did was bring the array down, replace the 1TB drive with a 2TB drive clicked on the start button and checked the yes box to rebuild. After several hours the rebuild was finished and it said the parity was OK. Today I selected two movies to move to the array. The first one seemed to be copied - it was listed in Windows Explorer but the second one failed to copy. Windows gave an error message saying there was no room left. I then checked unRaid server and saw that the disk had a red ball. I tried to do a file system check in unmenu and got the message that no file system was detected. syslog.txt

Yesterday I replaced a 1TB drive with a 2TB drive. The rebuild seemed to go OK I got a parity OK message after it was done. Today I tried to copy some movies to the array and received the following message from unmenu: "Sorry, no file system detected on /dev/md5". The message came after the first movie was copied to the array and changing the parity from before I replace the drive. Now I don't know if the new drive was rebuilt with the data from the drive I replaced. What can I do? Do I just replace this drive and rebuild? Will the copy of the first movie today prevent the new drive from being restored to the way the original 1TB drive was before I replaced it? Rick

I am looking for a new case. I now have a Lian Li PC-A17B case that hold 9 5.25"drives. I placed 3 CSE-M35T Supermicro SATA HD trays in these 9 slots. They are 5 to 3 trays. I am looking for a case that holds 12 5.25" drives so can use 4 Supermicro SATA HD trays. The cases that hold 12 drives seem to have three removable cages that hold three drives each and the remaining three seem to be at the top and fixed to the case; I can't tell if I could slide a Supermicro SATA HD tray in to these. Has anyone used these Supermicro SATA HD trays in these 12 drive cases?

Thanks for your reply Joe. Do you believe in coincidence? When I tried to print the wiki instructions, I realized that the printer was connected to the same switch as the unraid and it was not working either. I replaced the switch and now everything is working OK. I am able to connect to the web management page and start the rebuild. I don't know why the switch failed at the same time as my upgrading the unraid disk. Last night I did a parity check from a computer in another room and it worked fine. This morning I shut the system down and changed the disk and it stopped working.

I am trying to replace a hard drive with a larger one. I took the array off line, replaced a 1TB drive with a 2TB drive and restarted the system. Now there is no network connection. I have the computer connected to a switch and there is no activity with any of the lights on the switch and I can not connect to the unraid from any other computer on my network. How do I turn on logging so I can post a syslog file? Thanks

I think I have a big problem. I have six drives that need to have hpa removed. I used hdat2 to remove the hpa from the first, rebuilt the disk and got the message that it was successful. I started on the second drive and then noticed that only 30% of the first drive is used when it was 80% before the rebuild. Has the entire array been damaged? Have I lost everything? IS ther a way to recover from this? Help!

I have a Giabyte GA-EP45-UD3P motherboard. I searched for HPA and found that other Gigabyte boards have this problem. I will try to upgrade the BIOS as one person suggested. Thanks for the help Rick

I just upgraded from 4.5.6 to 4.7 and cannot get the system running. There is a difference in the size of several disks , parity, disks 1, 2, 6, 10, 11, from before the upgrade to now. Here is the configuration of my server. Disk status Model / Serial No. Temperature Size parity WDC_WD2001FASS-0_WD-WMAY00421411 WDC_WD2001FASS-0_WD-WMAY00421411 38°C 1,953,513,492 1,953,513,496 disk1 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV2312775 WDC_WD1001FALS-00J7B1_WD-WMATV2312775 39°C 976,761,492 976,761,496 disk2 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV2151825 WDC_WD1001FALS-00J7B1_WD-WMATV2151825 41°C 976,761,492 976,761,496 disk3 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV2243983 41°C 976,762,552 disk4 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV2244727 39°C 976,762,552 disk5 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV0051418 40°C 976,762,552 disk6 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV0666868 WDC_WD1001FALS-00J7B0_WD-WMATV0666868 38°C 976,761,492 976,761,496 disk7 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV5945216 38°C 976,762,552 disk8 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV5996312 40°C 976,762,552 disk9 WDC_WD1001FALS-0_WD-WMATV2242106 41°C 976,762,552 disk10 WDC_WD2001FASS-0_WD-WMAY00419857 WDC_WD2001FASS-0_WD-WMAY00419857 37°C 1,953,513,492 1,953,513,496 disk11 WDC_WD2001FASS-0_WD-WMAY00421179 WDC_WD2001FASS-0_WD-WMAY00421179 36°C 1,953,513,492 1,953,513,496 I remember when I added the 2T drives I had to swap the parity drive with the data drives so the one reporting the highest size was in the parity position even thought the 2 T drives are all the same model number. I did not change any of the drives or their position when I upgraded. I don’t understand why they are reporting different size now after I upgraded. Do I have to go back to 4.5.6? Any ideas? Rick I just went back to 4.5.6 and there is no longer any size error.

This card has Red Hat support I believe. How do they do it?

The documentation for the card says it is supported by RedHat Enterprise, Fedora Linus 9, and SuSE Linux Enterprise, is the kernel different for different Linus distributions?

When are new drivers added to unRaid. Is there a place on the forum to ask for added controller card driver support? It doesn't seem to fit under new feature request. Are drivers added periodically to new releases or on a request bases. I would like to use the Supermicro 8-Port SAS/SATA card AOC-SASLP-MV8 but it doesn't seem to be supported yet.

Hi, I am new to unRaid having just built my system two weeks ago. I started with 5 drives installed in Supermicro mobile rack and connected to the SATA sockets on the motherboard. I just added a second Supermicro rack with two drives removed form another computer. I added a RocketRAID 2300 card for the second rack. The 2300 BIOS recognizes the two drives but unRaid does not show the drives on the Devices page. I searched the forum for information about the 2300 and am confused if this card is supported. One person said it was not supported but another said he has it working. I am using unRaid ver. 4.4.2. Thanks