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Done & thanks!

thanks dgaschk for the input I proceed the rebuild the array. The data was recovered without any issue. Did a chksum verification of the files. No errors found! Thanks guys for the help. Admin: please close this post. Insira

Some new development in the situation, I have been fiddling around with the SNAP, in hopes of trying to mount DISK1 as a separate share and see if the data is available. So I un-assign DISK1 from my array, and mount the disk as a share using SNAP. got it to work. When I checked the data seems to intact. I'm in the process of coping the data into a secondary storage disk that i have; and upto now there seems to be no issues with the files. Also un-assigning DISK1, restored all my user shares. Which I am clueless as to how it restored the shares with the disk out of the array:o I'm think of going through with this as follow Copy the content of DISK1 to secondary storage disk start the rebuild process of the newdisk do a checksum verification of the restored data and secondary storage data I have a concern regarding step 2, should I preclear the disk and attempt the rebuild process or just press start in the unraid web UI and let it do the full rebuild process?? Thank you in Adance Insira

Sorry, forgot to mention, that i had an additional drive setup as a SWAP+APP Drive. This drive has died, it wasn't a part of the Unraid array. It only has a swap parition and a VM to download torrents. Not sure if it has caused some write errors on DISK1. (Think the drive had dies while the unraid was UP). :'( Anyways let me know how i am to proceed??? Thanks in advance Insira

Hi, I have a very basic unraid setup. Unraid Version: 4.7 Parity -1TB (SEGATE - ST1000DM003) Disks DISK1 - 1TB (TOSHIBA - DT01ACA100) Today morning suddenly the DISK1 appeared as not installed. But i was able to access the content of the disk via user shares. Just to make sure, i powered down the server and checked the connectors to DISK1 and made sure i plugged them to the same port. (I'm 100% sure i didn't change any of the connections). Then i booted the system and now it's showing DISK1 as a new disk and asking to rebuild the data. I'm not sure if there is a problem with the drive. I have attached the syslog. Below is a smart report of DISK1. root@MainTower:/# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sda smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: TOSHIBA DT01ACA100 Serial Number: Firmware Version: MS2OA750 User Capacity: 1,000,204,886,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Thu Feb 13 01:23:01 2014 IST SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x80) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (7556) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 1) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 126) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 016 Pre-fail Always - 0 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 141 141 054 Pre-fail Offline - 72 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0007 121 121 024 Pre-fail Always - 188 (Average 190) 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 461 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 005 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000b 100 100 067 Pre-fail Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 118 118 020 Pre-fail Offline - 33 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 1076 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 267 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 462 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 462 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 171 171 000 Old_age Always - 35 (Lifetime Min/Max 25/49) 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0008 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x000a 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 Num Test_Description Status Remaining LifeTime(hours) LBA_of_first_error # 1 Short offline Completed without error 00% 1075 - SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. I tried rebooting the system, reassigning the drives. doesn't seem to be working. Please let me know. what steps i can take to get the array back online. Thanks in Advance. Insira syslog.txt

Ahhh, now I got it, that's why virtual box is showing 1gb of mem is available for use. Vbox has buffered the memory. Thanks Theone! As you may hav already guessed;I do not hav much experience in Linux..... Again thanks for the quick response.

hi, I have free edition of unraid setup. The PC is a bit old; config is MB: GA-K8NE Processor: AMD Athlon X64 3000 Ram: 1.5GB HD: 1TB drives (Segate) - Parity; 1TB drive (Toshiba) & 1 x 60GB IDE (Maxter) - very old drive used outside the array as an app drive & swap disk. (yes; this is the poor man's Unraid) I created a VM with same configuration in my working PC to try out virtual box with unraid (this VM is my Test Server). I was able to install the Virtualbox, get phpvirtualbox setup and get one VM running on it. - thanks to this forum My VM running in virtual box is a XP SP3 with 256MB RAM My question is; When Virtualbox is running with unraid it's using a lot of memory. only leaves about 60MB free. Will it cause problem with Unraid especially when it comes to Parity check etc. Below is the memory status of the test server when the VM is running. root@Tower:~# free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1518 1459 59 0 7 1026 -/+ buffers/cache: 424 1093 Swap: 3850 0 3850 and why is the swap drive not being used? Thanks in advance InsI

Thanks, I also agree with you. Did some further research and found decided to switch to virtual box. I have a few questions regarding virtual box, will proceed to the virtual box posts.... Thanks.

Hi, I just though of trying this out, but came to a halt becos VMware server 2.0.2 is longer available for download from VMware (or I just can't find it). Did anyone have any luck with downloading the version? Thanks in advance.