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I went back and ran it again 3 times without -n just to be sure. The file I sent you earlier is the correct output of this process. It does look like it was cut-off but I do not know what else to do to make it go (or show) completion. The last lines in this output are: Phase 6 - check inode connectivity... - resetting contents of realtime bitmap and summary inodes - traversing filesystem ... Text file xfs-repair status .txt

Sorry about that I will go back and do it again so you can see it tomorrow...

Sorry about that. disk repair complete.txtNot sure what happened. I converted it from MS Word to text and it seemed to lose something. Attached is a second attempt at making a txt file plus the original MS Word file. Hope it comes through.. disk repair doc.docx

Reran the repair without -n. The resulting 1.2 mb text file is attached. Restarted array and drive 3 is still disabled/emulated. Text file xfs-repair status .txt

Dear JorgeB: I ran xfs_repair on disk 3 with -n, producing thousands of lines of text. It took about 5 minutes to highlight the text for copying. A 1.1 MB file with this output is attached. Again, many thanks for all your help. Regards, Mike disk repair text.docx

Dear JorgeB, I did the following: stopped the array and restarted in maintenance ran disk check on disk 2 -L stopped array started array Disk 2 came back! stopped the array and restarted in maintenance ran disk check on disk 3 -L That produced thousands of lines of messages stopped array started array Disk 3 is still disabled and shows up as "Unmountable. Unsupported or no file system". under Array Operation disk 3 is listed as Unmountable and I am offered the option of formatting it with the note: Format will create a file system in all Unmountable disks. Is this reformating my next move or is there something else I should be doing like rerunning disk check without -n or -L? The latest diag attached. plexnas-diagnostics-20240923-1451.zip

Thank you JorgeB. Sorry to be so thick but should I apply -L to both at the same time or one at a time? If one at a time, should 3 go first since it is disabled?

I ran the check filesystem for the 3 drives. The results are below. Looks to me like Disk 4 is OK and 2 and 3 need attention. I do not mind losing content, I can replace it, as long as the array is running without error and the shares are protected and exportable. I think I understand the instructions but I would very much like your advice on exactly what I should do next. At this point I do not understand how to mount an "unmountable" disk. Again, many thanks for your guidance, it is most appreciated Disk 2: Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... ERROR: The filesystem has valuable metadata changes in a log which needs to be replayed. Mount the filesystem to replay the log, and unmount it before re-running xfs_repair. If you are unable to mount the filesystem, then use the -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair. Note that destroying the log may cause corruption -- please attempt a mount of the filesystem before doing this. Disk 3: Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... Log inconsistent (didn't find previous header) empty log check failed zero_log: cannot find log head/tail (xlog_find_tail=5) ERROR: The log head and/or tail cannot be discovered. Attempt to mount the filesystem to replay the log or use the -L option to destroy the log and attempt a repair. Disk 4: Phase 1 - find and verify superblock... Phase 2 - using internal log - zero log... totally zeroed log - scan filesystem freespace and inode maps... clearing needsrepair flag and regenerating metadata - found root inode chunk Phase 3 - for each AG... - scan and clear agi unlinked lists... - process known inodes and perform inode discovery... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 - process newly discovered inodes... Phase 4 - check for duplicate blocks... - setting up duplicate extent list... - check for inodes claiming duplicate blocks... - agno = 0 - agno = 1 - agno = 2 - agno = 3 Phase 5 - rebuild AG headers and trees... - reset superblock... Phase 6 - check inode connectivity... - resetting contents of realtime bitmap and summary inodes - traversing filesystem ... - traversal finished ... - moving disconnected inodes to lost+found ... Phase 7 - verify and correct link counts... Maximum metadata LSN (4:35330) is ahead of log (0:0). Format log to cycle 7. done

Many thanks for getting back to me. I switched out the sata connector with another one that was attached to the mobo. I also have some HBA card SAS/sata connectors available to try depending on what the diagnostics tell you. Can you please tell me for my education, what part of the diagnostics log you saw the constant ATA errors? I checked all the sata connects on the array drives (on the 5 array drives - 4 are SAS/sata and one (the one you flagged WD-WXW2AB23AURD) was connected via mobo sata. I thought it was OK to mix and match mobo sata and HBA SAS/sata in the array. Is that right? I looked at the tightness of the sata and power connector to the array and all seem to be OK. I checked 4 of the 6 sata connectors to the mobo and they seem OK. To get to the other 2 sata connectors on the mobo I would have to take the large GPU out of the box which I can if you think it is necessary. I am attaching the diagnostics; the array screenshot remains unchanged from my first post. Thank again, Mike plexnas-diagnostics-20240923-1141.zip

UPDATE: A few minutes after I posted above. I looked at the SMART info on the drive that Unraid kicked out of the Array. After it kicked it out, it put it in unassigned drives and would not allow it to be assigned back into the array. When I check the SMART download it was for an entirely different drive, a 120gb SSD that I put into the server along with 3 others as unassigned. I then took ALL of them out and rebooted. The server and array came up! The array came up with errors, but it came up. See screenshot. Disk 3 is disabled with contents emulated. Three of the disks including 3 say they are unmountable, unsupported or no file system. All the shares came up with a warning that array shares were unprotected. Also, these is notice that there are no exportable disk shares. Plex is working again with about 60 percent of the previous content available. I am redoing and reattaching the diagnostics. As I said above, if I can get the array and shares to show up without negative messages or errors, I will be eternally grateful and will name my next child after you. plexnas-smart-20240921-1450.zip

I am an old guy (78) who has loved PCs for a long time. For example, I had a $1900 Apple IIe in the mid-80s. My dream was to get a NAS server running with a Plex/Usenet ecosystem of dockers to transfer, download, and run my TV_shows and Movies. I bought a pro UNRAID license and built a modest array with some 2TB drives and a 3TB parity using instructions mostly from Spaceinvader. Everything was working great for weeks. Lots of shares were viewable by Plex and Windows. Then I got the bright idea of putting in a refurbished HGST 10TB parity drive as the first step in increasing the compacity of the array. I now understand that there is an issue with replacing a parity drive with a drive significantly larger than the array's drives but I do not know how to address it. A suggestion from this forum was to run a disk check which I did but it did not work. Also, I could not get the HGST drive to be seen or start up without a special sata power cable that they supply. Plus I needed to use an available HBA SAS/sata cable to get it to work because the mobo sata cable would not. That is when the problems started. After replacing the 3TB drive with the 10TB and rechecking the cache, I started getting errors in the array. I tried using info from this forum and Reddit to fix them for several days but I went down a rabbit hole. I keep checking parity and the last reboot I did it told me: Too many wrong and/or missing disks! One disk that UNRAID removed from the array after reboot showed up as an unassigned drive but UNRAID will not allow me to put it back into the array. Before this, I lost all my exportable shares but I could still run about 60% of my content remotely via Plex. This was even with even 3 disks showing UNMOUNTABLE. Now with a dead array, I cannot do anything. The diag file is below. I would be so happy and grateful to get my array and exportable shares back without error and to retain at least some of my media files. I can replace missing content if I have a clean array that is working with my shares. I cannot tell you how important this server is to me personally but I know I am out of my depth in trying to fix it myself. I am quite new to UNRAID so please be very specific in telling me what I might try. Even though I have hundreds of hours invested, I will consider starting from scratch but before I go down that road, I want to know what happened and how I can prevent it in the future. Many thanks to anyone reading this who might be able to help. Warm regards, Mike plexnas-diagnostics-20240921-1332.zip

Many thanks for the clear instructions.! I am a new to UNRAID but thanks to you I got my Wind 11 VM up and running with an Geforce rtx2070 super.

dopeytree: You are the man! Very clear instructions. My Win 11 VM is up and running with my new rtx2070 super. Many thanks!

OMG, I do not think UNRAID could get any better for me! I have been a computer enthusiast for about 40 years. I discovered UNRAID after struggling mightily with TrueNAS Core. It would simply keep breaking on me as I tried to put up a Plex ecosystem (the arrs, Subnzbd and Plex) using the "jails". Hundreds of hours wasted and a ton of frustration. As a newbie I got UNRAID up and running this ecosystem with virtually no sweat. With the SMB shares, I am also backing up important files. I am just so happy I paid the one-time (now grandfathered) price for UNRAID Pro. The constant and thoughtful maintenance of the platform and the community is just awesome. UNRAID is just so deep it should keep me interested and learning for a very long time. Which brings me to my question: What would you suggest I study to learn more about UNRAID in the above context (Plex ecosystem and backups) ? Should I continue poking around YouTube for the stuff put out by such great teachers as SpaceInvaderOne? Or is there a book or otherwise formalized material out there that I should be getting?

First, please let me say that UNRAID is awesome! I put up a Plex ecosystem of dockers and it seems to be running great. I put up a Windows 10 VM and I really liked how quick it was in my system. I have recently read that support for Windows 10 is going away in the Fall of 2025. No more security updates. I decided to try and upgrade my Windows 10 VM to Windows 11. I changed the BIOS settings (secure boot and TPM) in the server. I also changed the BIOS setting in the Windows 10 VM to OVMF TPM. PC Health Check said I was eligible for an upgrade to Windows 11; however, when I went into Windows Update it said I was NOT eligible. The only thing I did at that point was to download Windows 11 Installation Assistant and ran it. It took the better part of an hour but it installed Windows 11 perfectly. It seems to running as fast as Windows 10. I had seen other instructions requiring installing a new VM and copying the vdisk.img. I did not quite understand the process; so, I just did the above and it seems to be working great. Just wanted to give back to this wonderful community with my experience.

PeterHS: You are the man! Thank you much. I can tell you that driver.conf does NOT work whiles drivers.conf DOES work. Warm regards for your wondeful help that after hourse of playing go the temp sensors to work.

Holy Crap this forum is awesome! I must have beaten my head against getting email notifications to work in Unraid and Sabnzbd for many hours. So thankful for smart and kind persons who share there expertise!!

Many thanks for this help. If I understand transcoding (and I may not), I may not need it since essentially all of my Plex media files are mkv. The reasons I might prefer Windows VM to a Docker is that I am very familiar with the apps in the Plex ecosystem in Windows format and much less so in Linux. I will almost certainly at least start in the Dockers and try and learn something. Thanks again, the support here is just magnificent!

Well, the AMD CPU (Ryzen 7 5700G) and mobo (GigaBye X570S elite) are already installed. I have been following Spaceinvader One's instructions on YouTube for setting up UNRAID with specific BIOS settings needed for that platform. Are there any other items/issues than those he highlights for AMD that I need to consider? I am looking to put up a Plex Server with Sonarr, Radarr and Sabnzbd. I appreciate any advice on potential pitfalls. Looks like I could do it in either one of two ways: Dockers or as a Windows 10 VM with these apps. Again, any reaction or advice on this is most appreciated.

Many thanks for all who responded to this. I should have been more patient. When I did not hear back for a few days, I decided to do a rebuild with a more modern Mobo, CPU, dramatically enhanced amount and quality of RAM, plus 2- 2TB m.2 drives and 2- 1TB SSD added to the new system. The old Mobo, CPU, RAM, cooler, graphics card, NIC and power supply going to my granddaughters for their first PC build. Truth be told, it appears that I was clearly, if somewhat unconsciously, just looking for an excuse to do this upgrade. I apologize for not waiting longer to work on the excellent solutions provided. These wonderful responses tell me that the Unraid community is very helpful and caring about and within its members. I will endeavor to be a positive actor in that community, my inherent impulsiveness notwithstanding. Warm Regards, Mike

My system: Full tower case GigaByte GA-X58A-UD3R Mobo circa 2008. I7 CPU from the same era 24GB of DDR3 RAM 6 - 2TB WD Red NAS drives, 2 - 3TB WD spinners, 2 - 1TB evo879 ssds No matter how I configure the BIOS it will not boot the Unraid flash drive. I get the message that the system only supports HHD and CDROM. I think I am screwed with this old system but wanted to get the final word from you good people before I invest half a grand into a update, So even if I have to upgrade, I am still determined to at least try Unraid. Any suggestions on an updated AM4 Mobo and what AMD CPU might work for a PlexNAS/media center would be most appreciated. If I have to update, I would really like to have a mobo with 2 m.2 slots for NVMe drives. I will probably put 64 GB of DDR4 into it. Thanks for any advice you can provide. Warm Regards, Mike