Hi,
Received worrisome messages (via prowl) that my parity disk was in an error state so remote desktop'ed into a machine on that LAN and had a look, sure enough had a red X for the parity disk.
Ran the diagnostics (couldn't attach as it's 210kb and limit here is 192kb) and it looks to have been unable to get any SMART data for that disk (an Seagate 8TB archive disk).
Attached is the disk error report obtained by clicking on the drive from the MAIN window.
Reading some of the help docs I have brought the array down and rebooted it in the hope of being able to get a SMART report, however there's no disk showing against the parity slot now, and there is none that can be selected from the dropdown - presumably this means a catastrophic failure of the disk or a cable issue.
I won't be able to get to the server until late Friday so trying to work out what to do next.
(I will buy another drive to take home with me just in case)
As I have backups of everything important on other disks / servers, and working on the assumption that one way or another parity is going to have to be rebuilt anyway, is it an option to bring the array back online and run unprotected for a few days ?
Thanks in advance for any wisdom you care to share.
Cheers,
Shane.
disk_error.pdf