Monkey_Man

Currently have a newborn so getting time on here or to play with the server is sporadic at best! Just wanted to come back and say thank you so much for all the help. The drive is mounted and rebuilt and functioning perfectly now, as is the new cache pool nvme drive. Still havnt plugged the old drive into a pc to see what's going on but that can wait. Now all running smoothly again, and backups have been made, time to try upgrading the version. In the nicest possible way, hopefully i dont see you in a thread after I start that process 😅. Thanks again

So ive got the disk out and in another pc and view with UFS. Totally new to me so not 100% sure what im doing but under 'manage partitions' setting it says 'no partitions or regions defined on the storage' and the hex/sector viewing part shows just 00 across the board. Compared to say my system drive where this is populated with a combo of letters/number and some areas with 00 im guessing that is the data on the drive (not sure if there is a traditional file explorer with that software?). Judging by that it looks like its been cleared, but then never formatted? Is there other tests/checks to do with UFS before I remove the disk? Next step then would be reinstall the disk, assign it back to disk 4, start array then format disk 4? This should the disk online ready for storage.

I'm doubting everything myself! I mean, I installed the disk, and allocated it to the array so then it done it's 20+hrs of formatting/clearing but it is definitely possible that I could have messed something up, or something went wrong during the process. Im fairly confident that had something gone wrong straight away or had it not been added to the array properly I would have noticed, but I wouldn't bet my life on it as I simply can't remember. What do you suggest I do from here? As it's out of the array now, can't I format then re add it and let parity build (assuming it was correctly working at some point) or if not it will just be treated as a new disk? I know formatting is a last resort usually so open to suggestions! Would taking the drive out and plugging into another pc to see if anything is on it be worth a shot?

sorry for the delay, life is getting in the way of tinkering at the moment! I have taken the nvme out and it has balanced using 1 drive and seems fine so that's temporarily sorted. I actually have a new drive turned up today ready to fit so will sort that soon. I unassigned disk 4 and started the array. You mention 'see if the emulated disk mounts' it still says 'UNMOUNTABLE: UNSUPPORTED PARTITION LAYOUT' just now with disk missing. The removed disk is in unassigned drives with the option to preclear or format. Im not sure how to try and browse the contents of the disk. Ive going into mc in terminal to view the /mnt and it only shows disk 1,2,3, not 4. I've attached new diagnostics. Just thinking out loud, but as I have parity (dual parity actually) would it not be feasible to just format the disk, remount and let it rebuild? Obviously maintaining the data on it would be quicker, but parity is for this kind of thing I think? Let me know if I'm way off the mark! I really appreciate the help so far. Edit: interestingly I have my shares as highwater and disk 4 is the newest disk. my most recent files i know of have all been stored on disk 3 where as they should have been on 4 if functioning correctly. Is it possible when it done the initaly clear/format after adding the disk that it failed and it has just never worked properly without me noticing? tower-diagnostics-20240404-2232.zip

ok the plot thickens... it seems the motherboard was trying to use dgpu instead of igpu even tho it had booted fine many times previously. using old usb again and now boots fine after a few restarts. next issue.. i have a btrfs cache pool consisting of 2 x 1tb nvme drives for appdata, now 1 is showing as missing for some reason! the idea was this gives redundancy if a drive were to fail (which it seems it may have?) so as a tempory measure untill i can get a replacement drive how to i safetly make this back to 1 drive? is it as simple as changing the slots back to 1 and unraid will sort out the rest? sorry about all this! hopefully i can get back to the original issue shortly

ok, i will definately try this. im now having another issue that the server wont boot. i did upgrade the hardware a few months ago (just cpu and motherboard) but otherwise nothing has changed settings wise for the past year or so (part of the reason im thinking of upgrading to the latest version) ive tried removing all but 1 stick of ram and just created a new usb drive but so far no luck. system powers on, no motherboard lights and i can hear the drives spin up but just black screen/no input to monitor. i know for sure it hasnt booted as a subsequent press of the power button instantly shuts off where as if it had booted it would be a clean/slow shut down with power button press. Anything simple it could be?

yes i did notice that, i was trying to setup ip cam ftp storage recording to an unnassigned drive but that all go put on hold recently without being set up properly. Will do what you suggested then post again.

ah of course, seems so simple now! Disk /dev/sdh: 16.37 TiB, 18000207937536 bytes, 35156656128 sectors Disk model: ST18000NM000J-2T Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

diagnostics attached do i copy that text into the terminal window? ive tried but it says no such file or directory. Its disk 4 so change to be /sd4, /sddisk4, /sd disk 4 etc is that correct? tower-diagnostics-20240402-1342.zip

Hello, I have the 'Unmountable: Unsupported partition layout' error on one of my drives out the blue, it has been in use for a few months and has data on there. I've read some other posts but would like to confirm the process please. Stop the array unmount disk start array let unraid rebuild disk if it can The server is currently paused half way through a parity check, will this effect anything or should I wait for parity check to finish? As that drive is now offline, wont this mess up my parity? I also have been meaning to upgrade unraid version as I'm still back on 6.11.1, should i do this before or after fixing the disk issue? Thank you for any help

Hello, Im trying to set up some reolink cameras to store footage via ftp to an unassigned drive. So far im coming up short on how to configure this, however I have got it working with a share on the array. I made a share, added a user to control that share with a username and password, and put those details into the camera and it has been saving footage. I cant see to make a share in the same way with the unassigned drive so im at a bit of a loss. I can share the drive so its visible in windows, but I dont think thats what i need to do? It certainly doesnt give me log in credentials to input into the camera. Can anyone help? Thank you.

This looks very promising thank you! Will test it out tomorrow

Hello, I've just moved house and tried to set up the server again and run into some issues. Apart from now not having a static IP and a different router so need to enter settings again that I can't remember, I can't access tower.local or the ip address of the server I *think* because I was using the 'my servers' (now unraid connect? I'm a bit behind!) and its going through an internet connection rather than local network and I don't have any port forwarding etc setup. Does this sound right? Can I reset/delete anything to do with the my servers setup and start back from scratch as a local connection either through the terminal or gui? Thank you!

Another vote! +1

Hi Everyone, I have 2 fairly specific use cases of the mover I am hoping to get clarity on! 1) If the mover has been started (either manually or by schedule) and whilst it is moving what was on the drive when the mover started you copy more data to that cache driver will it a) copy what was on originally and then continue to move and complete files when the original has finished, or b) only move the original set of files, leaving the newly copied on the cache until the mover is started again. 2) If the mover has started copying files to the array, then whilst transferring alter the share to not use cache, will the files continue to copy to the array normally or be left stuck on the cache? Thank you!