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It gets weirder...I had a look at my emails again, and two of the drives reported 200MB/s, and the other one "inf MB/sec", only on the 25% post read email. Unfortunately I've lost track of which drive was plugged into where...but I had two drives plugged into a USB hub, and the other one directly into the back of the computer, if that matters. I'm guessing it shouldn't. Thought I'd mention it.

Indeed. The card has just failed again today, same error as before: Dec 9 16:24:23 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: SAS host is non-operational !!!! I do have a second H310, but I use it in my Windows PC to host the drives that keep copies of my unRAID shares (running DrivePool on there). Might need to research another host card. I have one more slot I can try, but yes, starting to seem heat-related or end of the line. I'll check the heatsink on the card too. Thanks for the replies.

Removed GTX 970, moved H310 card to 8x slot that was covered by the video card. Now all drives are working again.

Spoke too soon. Suddenly six bad disks again. I can see the SAS card is "non-operational" again in the logs. Will try another slot.

Parity check is finished, no errors, all drives accounted for. Thanks for the help! Will upgrade the 2nd Parity drive to 10TB later next week.

My thanks to @binhex for this docker, and to @Frank1940 for the great tutorial. I was able to preclear three 10TB Seagate BarraCuda Pro's simultaneously before shucking them from their plastic prisons. Took 80 hours, no errors. (At first it was super slow, but then I realized I had two of them in USB 2 ports, gah!) I only ran one pass, good enough for me, but I understand the logic for running more. The email status updates are a slick feature. preclear_binhex.sh -f -c 1 -M 4 /dev/sdX

Thanks, and here's an update. I got home and the parity check said it was 165% complete. - stopped parity check and shut down the server - swapped the controller card to a different slot, re-checked cabling - booted up, did New Config again, keeping assignments - started parity check. It's doing the full 10TB this time. About 7 hours left now. No dropped drives so far.

Thanks trurl, I think you’re right. I doubt it’s actually the 10TB drive, might be something up with my controller card. Will try another slot when I get a chance.

Five hours into the parity check, but now I got an alert saying "array has six failed disks.' Diagnostics attached. I'm at work for another few hours, but I have remote access to the GUI. The parity check is still running, but instead of taking 18 hours, it’s changed to about 3 hours left, 65% complete. Also it says 4TB total size, shouldn’t that be 10TB? Thanks for any help. tower-diagnostics-20191206-1936.zip

Understood, thanks again.

Thanks, that makes sense re: format. Nothing new should have been written to Disk2. - I clicked New Config, use current assignments. - started the array, and now a parity check is underway. Will report back once it's done in 18 to 20 hours. Thanks again johnnie.black, you've helped me numerous times and I always appreciate it! Couldn't run my server without this helpful community.

Also I'm seeing this on the video output from unRAID.

Thanks Johnnie. - I shut down unRAID. Checked my cables, removed and reseated the Dell card. That seems to work. - unRAID boots, now the rest of disks seem fine again, except Disk2 is "unmountable: no file system". - I clicked Start the array, but it wants to format Disk2 first. Should I format Disk 2, or try a new config like you said? Seems like both roads lead to a parity check. tower-diagnostics-20191206-1324.zip

Hi there, having some unexpected problems here. Diagnostics attached. I'm trying to upgrade my two parity drives (1 at a time) from 4TB Reds, to 10TB Seagates I scored on Black Friday (got 3 of them for $200 CDN each, BarraCuda Pro's inside). - I precleared the 10TB drives before shucking, no errors. I'm pretty sure you don't have to preclear parity drives, but I wanted to test them anyway. - I set unRAID to not start the array automatically - I shut down unRAID last night, no problems prior to that. - removed the 4TB 1st Parity drive - installed the 10TB Seagate after shucking it - booted up unRAID, it said the Parity 1 drive is missing (correct) so I set that slot to the 10TB drive and started the array and waited for the parity rebuild to begin. Now I'm seeing many errors: "Array has 6 disks with errors", "Disk 2 in error state", and now it says every drive has read errors. Also I can't access the shares from my other computers over the network. - The parity check has paused itself at 4.64GB. I'm using a Dell PERC H310 raid card flashed to IT firmware. I will double check my cabling, maybe bumped something during install? Thanks for any help! tower-diagnostics-20191206-1228.zip

Worked perfectly, thanks!

Hi there. Thanks for your time creating this plugin, I'm excited to try it out. My current parity checks only take about 10 hours, but I'm looking at upgrading to some bigger drives this fall, so this plugin should come in handy. Based on my settings in my screenshot, I'm expecting the parity check to start Sept 30th (last day of the month) at 10pm, then pause at 4am on Oct 1st, then resume Oct 1st at 10pm, and repeat until finished. Does that look right?

Thanks Michael, yeah I was looking at the Purples, that's probably the way to go. Cheers!

Hi folks. Need some advice, as I am probably overthinking this. I run Plex and Fancybits' ChannelsDVR docker apps to record over-the-air TV to a separate internal drive in Unassigned Devices. I had been using a 4TB WD AV-GP since Feb 2014, but it died during the Stanley Cup Final, literally during Game 7, LOL. And they don't make those anymore. I also rip my blu-rays to the same drive, but pretty rarely. Then I move the movie files to the array. Any recommendations? I'd like at least a 4TB. I've currently replaced it with a 4TB WD Red because I had two of those lying around, but I'm not sure if that's a good use for a Red drive, as they're better suited to being part of an array. (My array is 8 x 4TB Reds). I'm more partial to WD than Seagate, but I have both, and they all die eventually. I'm not interested in shucking externals, but I respect those who do. Thanks for any help.

Checked the card and cables, rebooted, everything's back to good. Thanks so much Johnnie, like always! I'll mark this as solved.

Hello. Got an alert this morning with this error: Event: Unraid array errors Subject: Warning [TOWER] - array has errors Description: Array has 6 disks with read errors Importance: warning Parity disk - WDC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4E83TL7HX (sdl) (errors 13) Disk 1 - WDC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4EHZ9R8X5 (sdk) (errors 13) Disk 2 - WDC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4E76XE1D4 (sdj) (errors 13) Disk 3 - WDC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4EF87VP0N (sdi) (errors 13) Disk 4 - WDC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4E5X4N20J (sdg) (errors 13) Disk 5 - WDC_WD40EFRX-68WT0N0_WD-WCC4E5CN5V4V (sdf) (errors 13) Diagnostics attached. I ran a parity check two days ago, no issues. Thanks for any help! Specs are in my sig. tower-diagnostics-20190213-0610.zip

Panic over, sorted it out. Actually a fairly simple process of stopping Docker, deletion of the Docker image, re-create it, then re-adding my Docker apps from the Apps tab, then restore their data from the CA Backup feature from a backup from last Monday. All good now.

Hi there. Having a bit of a head scratcher that just started this evening. My Docker apps for Plex and tvheadend have somehow become reset, I mean they each look like it's a brand new install when I log into their web GUIs. Plex wants me to sign in and create a new library. tvheadend wants me to add my HDHomeRun, doesn't have any channels or recordings listed, (although my existing tv recordings are still on my recording drive outside of the array.) Likewise, my movies and tv shows for Plex are still on the array. Diagnostics attached. FWIW, I recently switched between the latest tvheadend and an older version, then moved back to the latest version, if that may have corrupted anything? I didn't touch Plex though. Thanks for any help! It would be a pain to reconfigure these, but can be done if that's the only way? Fortunately my Sonarr/Deluge setup seems to not have been changed. tower-diagnostics-20181208-1859.zip

Thanks for this...I'm having (what appears to be) the same problem, so I've switched to this for the moment.

Thanks so much john, I found Fireball3's instructions how to do that, and have now updated the HBA firmware: Nov 17 12:18:59 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(00.00.00.00)

Just an update to close this thread off. 2nd parity check finished, finding 2 sync errors. It was a non-correcting parity check, so I ran another one with write corrections checked, and it has now finished and corrected the two errors. All good now.