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yay! its back up! (disk 8 physically disconnected, so is the sata card)

 

thank you Jorge!!!

 

 

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3 hours ago, JorgeB said:

No ATA errors on disk6 for now, check filesystem. 

wait what? i was checking cables for ages lol. i disconnected disk 8, i believe its this cheap sata card i bought off amazon. but i am stressing about disk 6. ok ill do what the check filesystem help page recommends - going into maintainance mode etc. thanks again for your help. 

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46 minutes ago, demoeb said:

thats the new drive which i put in a sata card for. i will disconnect it, possibly its a bad card. what about disk 6?

 

can you tell me which file in the diagnostics i should be looking at to see which SATA port disk 6 is ?

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8 hours ago, JorgeB said:

The unassigned 14TB disk which I assume was disk8 dropped offline right after array start:

 

Mar 10 23:08:32 Storage kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed)
### [PREVIOUS LINE REPEATED 2 TIMES] ###
Mar 10 23:09:17 Storage kernel: ata1: limiting SATA link speed to 3.0 Gbps
Mar 10 23:09:22 Storage kernel: ata1: softreset failed (1st FIS failed)
Mar 10 23:09:22 Storage kernel: ata1: reset failed, giving up
Mar 10 23:09:22 Storage kernel: ata1.00: disable device

 

So, likely still power/cable issues.

thats the new drive which i put in a sata card for. i will disconnect it, possibly its a bad card. what about disk 6?

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its still bad. i believe you that it might be a cable issue, can u tell me what sata port disk 6 is on mate? that'd help me a ton. 

 

new diags inc.

ps thank u i really appreciate this. 

storage-diagnostics-20230310-2308.zip

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18 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

There are issues with disk6 and what I assume was disk8, check/replace cables and post new diags after array start.

ok, checked cables, its booting now.. i didnt see any issues though, but made sure all firmly plugged in. is disk 6 being 'seen' or is it completely absent, like if i went into the BIOS would it be there?

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12 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

There are issues with disk6 and what I assume was disk8, check/replace cables and post new diags after array start.

i did a quick check before but i will again, thanks. back soon

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6 minutes ago, itimpi said:

You are likely to get better informed feedback if you attach your system’s diagnostics zip file to your next post in this thread.

ah yes, i forgot. sorry about that. thanks for your reply!!

here they are

storage-diagnostics-20230310-2223.zip

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hi... i woke up today and saw there's a host of issues on my server. 1 drive 'not installed' and red, another "unmountable: wrong orno file system". i did SMART (quick) scan and all drives are passing, i am doing a read check but its going so slow, at <1 mb/sec so it's saying it will take 180+ days to complete. wth is going on? willing to try anything. 

 

only change that's occurred is that I added a new drive and SATA card about 1 month ago. all of these 14tb drives are less than 12 months old. should not be anythign wrong with them physically. theyre not overheating, nothing. 

[upon reboot after adding data disk, array disk is no longer listed as array]

1 hour ago, demoeb said:

Hi. I am somewhat of a noob with unRAID still, and I just powered down and added a data drive (8tb) but when I rebooted the 14Tb array #1 was listed as unassigned along with the new 8tb data drive. Help! I havent done anything else apart from that, I didn't want to damage anything.

 

the array disk is listed as unassagined

please disregard, its fixed now, i had the wrong sata port plugged in.

[upon reboot after adding data disk, array disk is no longer listed as array]

Hi. I am somewhat of a noob with unRAID still, and I just powered down and added a data drive (8tb) but when I rebooted the 14Tb array #1 was listed as unassigned along with the new 8tb data drive. Help! I havent done anything else apart from that, I didn't want to damage anything.

 

the array disk is listed as unassagined

[How to Replace a Drive (cache/data/parity)]

Hi. I am somewhat of a noob with unRAID still, and I just powered down and added a data drive (8tb) but when I rebooted the 14Tb array #1 was listed as unassigned along with the new 8tb data drive. Help! I havent done anything else apart from that, I didn't want to damage anything.

[next drive = parity drive #2?]

4 hours ago, trurl said:

You must always have another copy of anything important and irreplaceable. Parity is not a substitute for backups.

yah I know, I have the important stuff on LTO (have about 100 LTO-5 tapes)

 

unRAID has really changed my day to day life. My only regret is not getting into it sooner!

[next drive = parity drive #2?]

1 hour ago, JonathanM said:

Why, exactly, would you want to do this?

 

There are many reasons NOT to, and very few reasons to do it.

oh i see. i guess it's just my OCD. i'll leave it as it is then, id freak out if i lost data. thanks a lot

[next drive = parity drive #2?]

Sorry, another question now -- How do I "balance" out the free space on this new drive, to distribute it among the other older drives? 

 

[next drive = parity drive #2?]

Great! I see now, I've just added another data drive. Cheers for that.

[next drive = parity drive #2?]

Hi everyone! Just a quick and probable dumb question - If I add another HDD, it will be parity drive #2, right?

 

Please refer screenshot 

 

[Question about UnRAID and hardware]

If for some unknown reason, my motherboard dies, and I have to choose a different one completely, can I just re-connect up the drives to the new motherboard and the data is all exactly the same?

[Bought a Basic licence but now I can't use it?]

 

Thank you so much SpencerJ! It's working now. Physically removed the NVMe. In hindsight though, I should have bought a higher licence. I have 5 X 14Tb's + 1 X 14Tb parity .. this means, because total count = 6, I cannot add another 14Tb, right? I really should have bought the Pro licence. I can't afford it this pay, I'll hold off for another couple of weeks. Thank you for all your help. I really enjoy this software, invested a lot of money into the hardware, it's in a schmexy 4U RM chassis too, but now I really need to put the time into learning how to use it properly. 

 

Thanks again!

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Just now, SpencerJ said:

 

Yes- cache drives do count towards the license limit. 

ahhh ok ill power down and physically remove it now and then try again

[Bought a Basic licence but now I can't use it?]

ok ill post diagnostics 

storage-diagnostics-20220318-0758.zip

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5 minutes ago, SpencerJ said:

Hey there! Thanks for your purchase. On your Tools-> Registration page under Flash GUID,  how many devices are listed?

just 1 - the usb boot drive

 

theres a cache drive, does that count? if so i am happy to remove it, i havent worked out how to use it yet anyway

[Bought a Basic licence but now I can't use it?]

Hi

 

I just bought a basic licence, paid for it with paypal and tried to put the code in and it says I have too many connected devices, even though there's 6 connected included the parity drive? Can someone explain or help please? 

[NVMe as Cache]

HI I am on day 1 of my trial and so far so good, I wanted to know how to add my NVMe 500gb SSD as cache? i cant see where the option to add it is. I'm only using old small drives at the moment but I have 6 X 14Tb drives I will add to this and I need to buy more of them. The pro licence is what I'll be buying.

[staggered drive install possible?]

is it possible for me to install 1 drive with unRAID and then fill that to 80% or so and then add another drive and do same, until capacity reached?