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I have three disks with SMART errors. I "acknowledged" one of them, the other two still show errors. All disks pass SMART tests without errors. I am a bit concerned about disk failures, but believe these may actually be false errors. A related issue is that my mobo checks SMART at boot-up and does not allow me to boot (unless I disable the SMART check). I am attaching the smart log here. Any views on the health of the disk? And/or what else I can do to reset the SMART error? Thanks! tower-smart-20230317-1109.zip

I somehow succeeded to boot into Unraid by disconnecting my USB devices (except the Unraid boot usb). The weird thing is that even after disconnecting them, I can only boot if I disable SMART check in bios. So, it seems that my mobo thinks that one of my HD/SSD disks are faulty. I do remember seeing a "error" message before for one of the disks that I "acknowleged" in Unraid. This could be the issue. Not sure what I can do though. I don't think the dailure was real and SMART tests complete without errors. Maybe this acknoledgements isn't visible in my bios, causing such issue?

One more thought: What confuses me is that it actually initially starts to boot UNRAID. Otherwise, it wouldn't even get to this error message?

Thanks. Are you implying that this may be related to the server not starting unless I disable the SMART check in bios? It used to work in this port. Also tried others with same issue. I don't have a Windows PC to try, but I checked on Mac. Disk utility shows no issue. The disk is called UNRAID. What else to try?

Initially I got a boot message saying that my HD/SSD is about to die. I only could start the server after disabling SMART in my bios. This gets me a bit further, but still seeing a new error message now: "waiting up to 30 sec for device with label UNRAID - not found". Assume my Unraid usb is faulty? How to set it up from scratch? Or any other thoughts what could be wrong?

Any more thoughts and help. I have bind the NVME disk. But when I pass it through (click the button) to the VM, the VM no longer starts. In fact, it doesn't work even if I untick the NVME. I then have to fuilly set up a new VM from scratch. Then it works (but without the NVME passed through). Any idea what else I can do to pass through the NVME as secondary disk to the VM? Or is my only solution to create another image instead of a direct passthrough?

I have set up everything again from scratch (new VM, newly set up Unraid). Unfortunately, still facing the same issue 😞 I have bind the GPU as well as the NVME disk in system devices. I restarted Unraid. I have passed through the NVME and added it under "other PCI" (ticked in VM settings). Unfortunately, this still gives me the error message below: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: qxl_send_events: spice-server bug: guest stopped, ignoring 2023-03-[removed] qemu-system-x86_64: -device {"driver":"vfio-pci","host":"0000:06:00.0","id":"hostdev0","bus":"pci.5","addr":"0x0"}: vfio 0000:06:00.0: failed to add PCI capability 0x11[0x50]@0xb0: table & pba overlap, or they don't fit in BARs, or don't align After unselecting the NVME disk from "other PCI", the VM stops working completely. I need to set it up agai from scratch to get it working again. Any more thoughts for me?

I connected the server to a screen and found out it was GPT header corruption. Eventually got it somehow fixed in the Bios. All good again now. Thanks for your help!

Got it. I think I made some progress in the Bios. I created a drive group with one disk and then created a virtual disk with the same name. This disk now shows up in Unraid. It seems though that the disk is no longer formatted. It was formatted before, so seems it wiped this when adding in the Megaraid bios? I have some other disks with data that I'd like to add. Assume this wouldn't work and it would delete all data on the disk? Any way to add a disk without wiping data?

Thanks! What's HBA?

I am in Bios now. The disks show up. But I struggle to configure it correctly. Any suggestion how to configure it to pass through 8 disks. I am in the Bios now, but it seems asking me to build drive groups / arrays / etc. I just want to pass through the 8 disks to Unraid.

I am doing it through Bios now. Does this mean that this enclosure does not allow me to swap disks? Everytime I add / change a disk, I will need to go to Bios to set it up? That's quite disappointing. I don't plan to use any raid feature, but just use the controller to pass it through to Unraid.

So as long as I get into the bios to add them, I should be fine? So need to get a screen to connect and run bios as you suggest above? I won't be able to run Windows unless possible to do this within a Windows VM.

I have SATA disks in the enclosure. The enclosure has a display that shows them being identified. I placed them into slots 1, 7 and 8. It also identifies that both cables are connected.

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Then it is the right one. Any other idea what I can try to troubleshoot?

I am running Unraid headless, so this will be challenging for me.

Attaching updated diagnostic. I think something wrong with the first one. tower-diagnostics-20230226-1255.zip

The enclosure has a display, which shows that disks are identified. I don't know how to access the bios and don't have another system than Unraid.

I just connected the external SAS enclosure. Unraid seems to identify the SAS card that came with it. But I cannot see any drive. Do I need to install something on Unraid to make this work? Please see attached diagnostic log. Thanks for your help! tower-diagnostics-20230226-1213.zip

Thanks. There are 5 disks in the enclosure and I have the "maximum" license. So, this shouldn't be the issue.

Title says it all. * I start Unraid with an USB enclosure attached. It does not boot up * I start Unraid without the enclosure, but attach it after the boot is completed. All works well Attached diagnostic log. Thanks! tower-diagnostics-20230226-1147.zip

Unraid runs with an 10980XE (48 lanes) CPU on an Asus X299-A (originally marketed as 44 lanes). I would like to run 3 PCIe 16x cards. Anyone knows whether 48 lanes are available due to the CPU or I am restricted to 44 lanes due to the Motherboard. Would this change if I were to upgrade the motherboard?

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I have been running with a multi-bay enclosure connected via USB-C. I know this has been strongly discouraged by the Unraid developers, but has been working surprisingly well with me. I am about to buy a new enclosure and looking into USB-3.1, USB-3.2 and also SAS. I am wondering whether SAS would give me a substantial speed gain and whether it is even supported by Unraid? It is significantly more expensive, so curious whether this gives me a gain.