Conson Droppa

Don't know about the beep. Hopefully a guru can chime in, but 3 drives in 4 months? Do you have a big enough and/or quality power supply. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If someone can answer this with a forum thread link, I'd be fine with that. Sorry if it has been answered elsewhere. I know I'm not the first to say that. Searching for this brought on a slew of results. I am about to rely on my server for slightly more important stuff an more use (for one a web server). So I want to get some new hardware. I currently have about 2.27 GB of data on a 4TB array put together with stuff I had and stuff donated from friends in a gutted aluminum dual G5 Mac Case. Using a HP MoBo from the retirement pile at work. I'm tired of having to work around proprietary BIOS settings (this board needs all the OEM components (case fan, case front panel) plugged in or you have to hit F1 at boot.) ANNOYING!!!! My question is: I want to build a new server. Start off with a 4TB parity and either 2-4TB or 2-3TB data drives. and reuse my 128 SSD cache after the new one is up and running. How can I build the new one and keep the old one running to move data over. Then move the remaining drives I want to keep from the old server to the new server. I can answer this myself and say the easiest way would be to buy a new key for a new USB/GUID. I must add I don't mind doing this and supporting Tom and this community but is there another, or for lack of a better term, free way. I'm sorry if there is a simple and obvious solution I am overlooking. I currently have a PLUS key.

I am currently doing one. Had a few important files I wanted to get off before anything else happened. Would you recommend a correcting check? I did a non-correcting first to see if there would be any conflicts. And then I'll do a correcting one. Is that a waste of time or a safe thing to do? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

What a beautiful Picture (attached GUI Screen Shot) I can't thank this community enough. Everything looks OK so far. Small corruption on my iPhoto Library but no big deal.

Quick update = I now see some files that were missing during my adventure. Fingers crossed.

Well guys, I did it. I posted a screen shot from right after hitting start. I turned on Caffeine. I am not gonna refresh the browser for as long as I can even though I think I can at this point. I will post the results after it finishes. I can see disk 2 says 449GB used so thats a good sign. Again, Thanks for all of your help. Some of you are pure genius. I love unRaid and this community. I leaned a lot in the past years setting up and maintaining this array. I hope I don't need any more help. Will post the results, good or bad, whatever they may be. P.S. = I am going order locking SATA cables and two hard drives right now.

If I follow this I replace 10 with 2. I just wanna be sure I get this right. <quote> > 1. Execute Utilities/New Config. > > 2. on Main, assign all your drives, being very careful to assign Parity and your new disk (disk10) correctly. > > 3. From a console or a telnet session type this command: > > mdcmd set invalidslot 10 > > (the 10 corresponds to disk10) > > 4. Click 'Start' on the webGui. > > What should happen now is array gets started with disk10 reconstruct in process. > > IMPORTANT: between steps 3 and 4 do NOT refresh your browser or navigate to any other pages in the webGui - just click the Start button which is already being displayed there (if you navigate to a different page or even refresh the browser after step 3 it will "cancel" the effect of that 'mdcmd' and result in your parity disk getting written - not good). </quote>

Modified. The array starts and the good disk are usable. disk2 and disk 5 do not share. They are all the original disk that were in the array. Disk 2 and 5 pass SMART and Self test. Tried multiple power and SATA connectors and 2 SATA ports with no luck of getting disk 5 to not red ball. I am going look at post 20 now. is this the next step you guys recommend. If I do this, will my current good disk be OK? In theory as long as nothing else happens. I want to thank all of you for your help and any future help. I think I've lost what little hair I had left after last night. i had to take a break for a couple hours.

Just tried another SATA cable. No luck. They both pass SMART and self test. SysLog after 20 minutes was exactly the same so I didn't post it.

Corsair TX650 / fairly new. single rail Disk 2 is on MoBo SATA port Disk 5 is on a 4 port controller card along with disk 4 and Cache I tried using the 4th available port on the controller card on one of the SATA cable swaps. Still same results. I tried my one extra available power connecter on disk 5 during a SATA cable change. I have a 3rd SATA cable I can try. I'll try again.

Replaced disk 5 SATA cable again with no luck. Same screen shot. So I uploaded the syslog. I will attach another syslog at 20 minutes as requested. syslog.txt.zip

No I can't see disk 2. I just thought I had more data on disk 2 than what is missing. I thought I was seeing disk 2 because my iTunes Library looks OK so far. Nothing encountered missing yet. It seems my iPhoto Library took a big hit. I haven't really poke around too much. I didn't want much reading and writing going on in such a fragile state. My shares span all drives. iTunes hasn't encountered a missing file yet. My daughters played a couple movies before I realized they were on iTunes. I don't want to open iPhoto until this is resolved or settled. I can only see what I have on disk 1. I can't tell what I am missing from disk 2. If that makes sense.

Screen shot still looks the same. I assume its running off of parity. Should I just accept my loss? Or is there hope.

reiserfsch --check /dev/md2 came back = bread: Cannot read the block (2): (Input/output error) reiserfscheck --fix-fixable /dev/md2 came back with same results then says to replace drive to save your time or run the -B block remap. But I came to the forums and never did that.

the only reiserfsck commands I ran were 'check' then 'fix' but 'fix' aborted. That was only on disk 2. It was just disk 2 at first. While trying to get 2 up then 5 had the red ball. And then I came here. The more I look at my files, disk 2 may have more pictures than I thought. Since your last post I tried new SATA cables and different power connector. I even tried moving 5 to a different SATA slot. still red balls.

No changes when I replace the SATA Cables. Still starts the array in the same status. Since unRaid can see the drives and I was not writing or reading at the time this took place. Can I possibly do a Trust my array restore? Man I've never been more anxious.

I have checked and double checked all SATA and power cables. It still boots to the same scenario. Disk 2 did not say "unformatted" at first. Disk 5 did not have any data on it as of this failure, disk 2 is my only concern. I will try another SATA cable on the 2 drives.

When I try and replace one or the other it says, too many errors, cannot start array. I starts, mounts and is usable. I am not sure what files I am missing from disk 2 yet. I don't want to mess around on iTunes or iPhoto too much and corrupt my libraries. Is there a way I can shrink my array by removing disk 5, then possibly, hopefully replace/rebuild disk 2 and finally add a new disk 5.

I opened my case while attaching a monitor and upon restarting the array I get an orange ball on md2. I have some reiserfsck errors in my sys log. I will attach it. I tried doing the --check and the --fix-fixable. Both abort and say bread: Cannot read the bloc (2): (Input/output error). I don't mind replacing the disk 2 and rebuilding it but disk 5 being red for the same reason is preventing that. Before I try any other reiser commands I would like some advice. Thanks in advance. If you need anymore infer please let me know. Disk 5 is empty BTW. Version 5.0 rc11 syslog.txt.zip