Hi! I just migrated my unraid setup from a custom server to a minisforum n5 pro and am running into drive errors. The drives themselves are all passing smart tests and I didn't have this problem in my old system. I'm new to diagnosing unraid errors, and tried with gemini and was hoping to get some opinions. It's suggesting a possible hardware issue and opening a support case with minisforum was my next step. Thanks in advance! Based on the logs you provided, the good news is that your hard drives (Disk 1 and Disk 3) appear to be physically healthy. The errors you are seeing are not caused by failing disks, but by a critical connectivity or power failurebetween the drives and your Minisforum N5 Pro. 1. Diagnosis: Controller or Power FailureThe most telling evidence is in your syslog.txt. Both drives are reporting a limit=0 error: Jan 19 02:03:03 TheHive kernel: sde: rw=0, sector=..., nr_sectors = 8 limit=0 Jan 19 02:03:03 TheHive kernel: md: disk1 read error, sector=... Jan 19 02:03:03 TheHive kernel: md: disk3 read error, sector=... In Linux, a limit=0 error means the operating system suddenly believes the drive has a capacity of zero sectors. This almost always happens when a drive completely disappears from the SATA bus while the system is trying to read from it. Because this is happening to multiple drives (Disk 1 and Disk 3) at the exact same time, the issue is not the individual drives, but something they share: the SATA controller, the cabling, or the power supply. 2. SMART Health AnalysisThe SMART logs for both drives show them to be in excellent condition: Disk 1 (sde - 12TB WD): Has 0 reallocated sectors, 0 pending sectors, and 0 UDMA CRC errors (which would indicate a bad SATA cable). Disk 3 (sdf - 14TB WD): Also has 0 reallocated sectors and 0 pending sectors. High Reset Count: Both drives show a relatively high "Number of Hardware Resets" (367 and 372), which suggests they have been forcefully power-cycled or dropped many times previously.
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