Nico_S

Hi there. So far it has been very frustrating. I first called the seller (a quite big german online shop) and sent them the damaged motherboard. 2 weeks later the mainboard returned with a lettter saying they won't do anything, because I inserted the card improperly. I then contacted the Asrock support - they told me to contact their RMA department. The RMA website says "please contact the seller". Which I did again.... They told me I probably have to pay for a repair when they send the mainboard on my behalf for a check / repair to Asrock's RMA. What I haven't tried so far is contacting LSI...

I will do that! Thanks again everyone

sure!

Thanks everyone for your input. It very looks like the marked part of the card touched the metal of the PCI slot... but it's hard to tell afterwards. Also I am very sure it was mounted correctly and vertically. The good news is - the server is up and running again after a swap of the motherboard!

Is this just bad luck or do I miss something utterly obvious? Mainboard: ASRock Z370 Extreme4 I installed a (the seller says) new LSI SAS 9211-8i 8-port card into the PCIe slot. The second I turned the machine on, sparks were flying out of the slot / card. Totally in shock - I never experienced something similar before - I pulled out the power cord. Luckily both brand new SSDs that were connected to the card are still working (checked on a Windows machine). I haven't checked the HDDs that contain the actual data. Hopefully tomorrow the new mainboard will arrive... Cheers, Nico

Thank you very much for the quick reply! The new HDD should arrive tomorrow. I will update the thread then.

Hey there, yesterday I decided to upgrade my 2 TB HDD to a 4 TB HDD. Before doing so, I backed up everything, ran a parity check and all was fine (0 errors). Not too long ago, I did an extended SMART test for the parity disk. Again, everything was fine. After swapping the discs, the rebuild speed was >100 MB/s. When I woke up, there were quite some emails with "unRAID Status: Warning [UNRAID] - current pending sector is xxx" and the rebuild process slowed down to < 1MB/s. A few hours later, the rebuild finished with 85848 errors. The parity disk now has 337 current pending sectors ( 0 Reallocated sector count). I already ordered a new HDD to replace the parity disk. Now my questions: What is the best way to get a perfectly running system again? Can I even trust the data that was written during the rebuild or should I erase the whole disc and copy all data from my backup? When I replace the parity disc, do I have to create a new config to rebuild the parity? unRAID version: 6.6.5 diagnostic file is attached Thank you very much in advance! Cheers, Nico unraid-diagnostics-20181126-1922.zip