chadsfake

OK I think I have this solved now. The bios updates looks to have made my two sata controllers stop working . I had a ASM1166 M.2 PCIE to SATA and another older PCIe to sata . I replaced those with one LSI 9300-8i mini sas to sata and all looks to be working fine now except disk5 that failed won't recognize in the Unraid server or using a dock on another machine that will be RMA'd. The controllers had been working fine for years previous to the upgrade.

I switched power leads with another drive and no change. But lets put that aside I am fine to consider that drive dead and look at the bigger problem I am having. That is the issue of my bios update and the impact it is having on trying to do two things. I can't currently use unbalance to move files (which I would like to do before I try anything else) Iwas not able to complete a parity check

I shut down , checked cables even moved the sata cable to an unused port and here is the diagnostics file after restart. tower-diagnostics-20260608-1241.zip

The disk is still connected , I have not shut down the server or removed any cables or disks . Is the problem I have having not being able to run unbalanced now or the parity check before disk 5 was removed by Unraid being caused by this disk ?

Yes it is in place still just disabled . I am not concerned with that disk right now and will pull it and test in a dock. My concern is why can't I run unbalanced to move the files from emulated to another disk and why I could not run parity check before this disk failed . Do you think it is all related to this disk being close to failing when I was trying to do a parity check that it was locking up the system? If it is still in my server connected but disabled could this be causing unbalanced to now run? I wanted to try to move the files before shutting down the server and removing this drive

I don't have another disk to replace this failed drive right now and want to move the emulated files to another working disk. Two things are not working as they should and I suspect they are related I can't move these files from the failed disk emulated I could not run a parity check previously before this disk failed. Both of these tasks stall but shares, dockers etc still work.

emulated disk 5 has 559 gb of data and the files are still available in SMB share from windows machine. As well when I try to use Unbalanced it finds Disk 5 emulated files, goes through all checks and shows good to move to another disk, when I start a move it starts as usual but then stalls and remaining time continues to go up with nothing moving.

Here is the diagnostics file tower-diagnostics-20260607-0822.zip

I messed up, I saw that my motherboard was a year behind on the latest bios update and decided to update. I am on the latest Inraid 7.3.1 TUF GAMING Z790-PLUS WIFI now updated to Version 1836 Intel i5 14600k After that Unraid was running fine , array on line docker containers and plugins are working . Multiple remote plex users streaming no issues . 1st of the month I had a Parity check scheduled it started everything started to read then certain CPU cores pinned at 100 and parity check stalled not progress past the 0.1% . I did a check with google and made some power management changes to the bios settings but still no luck parity check stalled each time. the last attempt to run parity check one of the drives gave errors and Unraid removed the drive . I stopped the array unselected that drive and started the array again . The drive is emulated I tried to run unbalance to move the files that are now emulated to a good drive but it too stalls out. Here is what I did change in the bios Performance Baseline to ASUS Advanced OC Disable Aggressive SATA Link Power Management (ALPM) Readjust RAM Stability (Disable XMP / AEMP II) set to Ai Overclock Tuner to auto PCI Express Native Power Management to Disabled. Change PEG - ASPM and PCH - ASPM states to Disabled. Unconfirmed 114525.crdownload

Fingers crossed I think I have solved it and the thumb drive was bad. The problem was the bios kept changing the boot device order when the thumb drive would fail to boot so when I tried to boot from a refreshed or another thumb drive I would have to go back to the bios to put the USB first each time. With the old thumb drive it would start and looked like everything was ok then the GUI would fail to load on the web interface within a few hours but the dockers were still accessible but then each of those would fail to be accessible over the next hour. I switched to another thumb drive switch my key over and all seams good for now.

No luck with that either I even tried loading a fresh install on another thumb drive with the same results I am not sure if it helps with identifying the problem but the photo that shows that during start up it starts listing the hard drives that is not all the hard drives installed it just stops at the one PM 1 Port 0 and goes to the screen with the curser there are another 5 drives .

Unfortunately that did not help i get the message in the first photo then it goes to the screen in the second photo wiht the curser in the middle of the screen and goes no further.

I can't get unraid to load . I have attached the error message I am getting where it stops every time. Does anyone know what has failed . I was running the the lasted version (not rc or beta) have been running for years. Is this a failed thumb drive or if I got to this point is it a sata controller or mother board issue? Thanks for you help in advance Chad

Recently when I check the box for unrar I get a message that the executable is not found and am also getting these errors 2020-11-17 03:14:55 SHOWUPDATER :: Failed to unpack archive: /config/cache/alts/tmp/alt.rar with error: Cannot find working tool 2020-11-17 03:14:55 SHOWUPDATER :: Failed to unpack json data: /config/cache/alts/tmp/alt.rar with error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/config/cache/alts/alt.json' I have uninstalled and reinstalled a number of times and this won't go away, any ideas?