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I have had a lot of trouble recently wiht my SAS controller card. I presumed it was because it was SAS and not LSI... i replaced it today and disk 7 is still not available. This is on the heals of disk 6 failing and being replaced. The timing is suspect. could someone please look at my diagnostics and confirm that 7 is in need of replacement and that there is not a greater issue looming? I would be eternally grateful. Regards, Matt server-diagnostics-20190707-0056.zip

I have been experiencing a lot of issues where a HDD is no longer available. Currently there is a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 handling 6 drives. I already understand that this is likely a large part of my issue, but maybe not entirely? I've posted diagnostics in case someone wants to be awesome and look this over. I plan on replacing the card but need a little help grabbing the correct card as I really don't know my way around controller cards. I am looking at the LSI LOGIC 9211-8I. Would this be an adequate card for a replacement? Second to that, the reseller is Server Suppy https://tinyurl.com/y6zmbgc4 are they a reputable supplier for refurbished equipment? server-diagnostics-20190702-1905.zip

I did start the array and performed a check. There were 0 errors found. The unassigned HDD is the original disk that needs replaced. I have a new one pre-cleared and ready to go in. It appears everything is available, which is concerning as it had not been after my last reboot. There is *some* problem lurking in the background.

The diagnostic file is uploaded. I would greatly appreciate help in figuring this out. Thank you server-diagnostics-20190601-0810.zip

As soon as pre-clear finishes I will post that.

I recently had a drive fail, no biggie, its happened before. I replaced it with another drive and began the pre-clear. When I brought the server online to pre-clear, the drive shows "not installed" which makes sense, but there is no mention of emulation. Trying to access the shares on the server, much of the data is missing. on individual drives the data is present, but not in the shares. Before I create a larger mess, I was hoping for a little guidance as this is different than any previous drive failure I have had. I am running unRAID 6.6.6 Attached is a copy of my syslog. My principle concern is rebuilding the array with whatever state the system is in leading to permanent data loss - obviously! I genuinely appreciate any help that can be offered. System Log.txt

Replacing HDD cables is likely the easiest/cheapest preventative maintenance possible. Recently, though, I have had what started off as major issues end up being extremely easy fixes. To start off with I have dozens of extra SATA cables. some are locking, others aren't. But I'm lazy? In the last 2 weeks I had my Parity drive as well as 3 others show up as problematic. After considerable hemming and hawing I replaced the cables and it fixed the issues. But it made me wonder, is their a schedule that anyone keeps to for replacing cables to ensure smooth operation?

SOLVED Ever since I upgraded from 6.3.5 to 6.5.0 I have lost the use of unrar. I tried uninstalling/reinstalling the Nerd tools app, but haven't had any luck getting this function back. -bash: unrar: command not found I apologize if this has been asked and answered, but I'm at my wits end on this. Any help would be great. Regards. Edit.... Damn It, I found a previous post about turning on the individual applications within NerdPack... never saw that before...

I don't claim to know how much effort it would take to make this work, but would it be possible to make a plugin that simply stops, starts, restarts the installed plugins? In the main window for it, you could simply have a checkbox for each Phaze plugin currently available. You check the boxes for the plugins you have installed, and if you need to stop all the plugins, click stop one time and it takes care of the rest. I only ask because I am using multiple plugins and the system always seems to hang if I don't manually stop all of them prior to taking it offline. In any event, I appreciate what you have brought to this community.

I installed a AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 over the weekend. Completely plug-n-play with 6.1.9. I actually added 4 2TB HDD in one commercial break of football action. I was amazed.

Forgive me if this has been asked or explained previously, I couldn't find an answer to my question. Recently I took my array offline and was amazed to find that there the 4tb drive,which UnRaid did not have in the array and showed as disabled was spinning. That led me to wonder why any disk in an array not in use and not online, would even be spun up? Is there a setting I am missing? It seems if you take the array offline, you should be able to pull a drive and replace it without it trying to gyroscope out of your hands. Is Unraid 6.1.9 not warm swapable? Could this be changed in future iterations of the Software? Thanks, Matt

PhAZe, deleting the config folder got CP up and running. What from the original config is should be moved over to restore the database and previous settings? I appreciate your help. I have been using your plugins since you started them and this is the first issue I have had. I opted to just reenter all my data. it was easy and this way I'm not importing the problem back in. Thanks for your help TRP

After following these instructions, I now have Sab, Sick and Transmission working again, but am still getting the start failed, no PID created error for Couchpotato. syslog.txt

Thank you Phaze. For me it isn't SickRage (I don't use it), it is CouchPotato, SickBeard, Sab, and Transmission. None of them will start.

Kitwolf, did you ever get past this, because it sounds like my problem as well.

Getting weird errors all of a sudden and the services won't start began 1 week ago after a clean restart. Syslog attached. Could anyone give me a little guidance please? Thanks syslog.txt

I have changed the settings and saved them. I will post back when I can say definitively whether that fixed it.

I attempted to search for this, but came up short - that said, I apologize if this has been covered. I am running unraid 6.1.9 and have been since it was available. I restart once per month +/-, just or housekeeping purposes. For some reason the auto parity check has either not been completed, or is not recognized as completed. I currently stand at 80 days since the last attempted parity check, which I aborted since it was a known good Parity. I now have the following prominently displayed on the dashboard. Last check incomplete on Fri 03 Jun 2016 07:14:20 PM PDT (80 days ago), finding 0 errors. Error code: -4 I cannot find anything for error code -4... again, possibly missing something here. the Mover works famously, but the parity check doesn't seem to be operative. I am performing a manual parity check now, which I expect will be correct, but any ideas what I can do to restore the automated parity check? My current schedule is set for weekly, Tuesday, at midnight. Thanks in advance Matt

I appreciate the replies. Thanks!

To start, this may be covered elsewhere, but frankly, I',m not sure how to search for it. I just upgraded from V6.0.0 to V6.1.9... why change what's working. When I did I, evidently, lost the ability to browse the individual drives. They no longer show up in File Explorer where they were 24 short hours ago. In fact, //server/cache doesn't even bring up the Cache drive as it used to, it only brings up an error. I can browse them via the web GUI which has not changed, although I can't alter them from there . I looked through settings, although I don't see anything that would allow this to change. If anyone has a suggestion, please I am all ears and frankly I like being able to see/access the individual drives. Syslog attached... Thanks guys, TRP -Matt server-syslog-20160306-2313.zip

A full power cycle of the server seems to have fixed the issue. A simple reboot had no effect... Who knows!

Just replaced a HDD and completed the pre-clear cycles. No errors were detected and I averaged 26hours (on 4TB) per preclear cycle. Now once I assign it to the array and begin data rebuild and I am only working at 800kb/s with an expected end time of 52days! Any suggestions on how to speed this wee bastard up? I will post a log file once I get back home tonight.

Okey doke so I ordered 2 HGST Deskstar 4TB hdds. One will replace the 2TB EARS parity and the other will replace the oldest 2TB EARS in the array, which will make it the most used drive since my cache drive is loaded with things to move into the array. I will systematically replace the other 4 hdds in the array over the next year or two. It appears that the only other drive that I have in the SATA II category is the Samaung which I can replace next as it is also one of the older drives. I appreciate your advice.

Well, I'm out of space again... and now I have a dilemma. I currently have an unRAID Plus license and all of my available HDD spaces are used. Should I: a.) Upgrade to unRAID Pro Buy a controller card (I'm also out of SATA ports on my mobo) I'd probably an SAS card for the speed Buy more 2TB drives b.) Buy 2x 4TB drives (simply start replacing all my 2TB with 4TB) That would give me up to 10TB of additional storage Cost-wise, it's effectively a push. But does anyone have any wisdom on the better path to take?

OK, having a monitor has helped a whole bunch. There was a comedy of errors here. Evidently, I had a broken SATA power cable that was preventing 2 of my drives form showing up. Once I got the that squared away, all of the drives are now found. Also, it turns out that my motherboard had stopped trying to boot from the USB, so unRAID was never loading, hence the reason there was no LAN connectivity. Once both of those issues were fixed, unRAID booted straight away, found and properly ordered all of my drives - except the one that I replaced. I now have preclear going on the one new drive so that I can add it to the array and rebuild from parity. I can't thank you all enough for your help and responses. TRP