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  1. Ok I'm slowly coming along on this- you can put me in the extreme novice category for this stuff. I believe I found the appropriate firmware for my setup: https://docs.broadcom.com/docs/12350504 That folder also has has an installer in it but (if I'm understanding this correctly) that is not a Linux installer. I'm having trouble finding the appropriate Linux installer. If I can find that I believe I will be able to follow the upgrade instructions linked in the reply to my original post. Again, thanks for the help and let me know if I need to provide any more details.
  2. One of my parity disks is showing errors and is currently disabled. This happened a few months ago- I swapped out the cables, rebuilt parity, and that seemed to solve the problem. Obviously popping up again. One mistake I made last time- I rebooted before downloading the diagnostics. Not this time! I've also attached the SMART report for that disk. If anyone could take a look and offer some insight as to why this is happening again, I would greatly appreciate it! albus-diagnostics-20201025-0836.zip albus-smart-20201025-0857.zip
  3. Ok yeah, I thought we were heading in that direction... I'm realizing I should have run the diagnostics prior to restarting everything. Any chance anyone can tell what happened to the drive based on the diagnostics and/or SMART test I attached? Thank you!
  4. I received a notification that my second parity drive was disabled. It also had a couple of hundred errors in the "Error" column. Parity check last night returned no problems. Finally had a chance to shut down the machine and check the cables. Everything appears fine with those. Restarted the server and the drive continues to show as disabled. I then ran a SMART test and downloaded a diagnostics report, which I have attached. Any help/guidance would be appreciated, thanks! albus-diagnostics-20200719-1402.zip albus-smart-20200719-1349.zip
  5. Sounds good. Maybe the "Errors occurred - Check SMART report" message just refers to the "Total Errors Corrected" entry in the error log: Thanks again!
  6. Aaaah, ok, that makes sense. For what it's worth, that SMART test is now complete and I've attached new diagnostics. I guess I'll try to learn a little more info about SAS SMART tests. I mean I guess in general I'm just trying to be proactive about looking into the "health" of my drives, and there are probably some other ways to do that too that I'll explore. Thanks! albus-diagnostics-20190112-1657.zip
  7. So this is a brand new server. I’m new to server builds and Unraid, so I’m taking things super-slow so I don’t screw too many things up and make compounding mistakes. I’m running Unraid 6.6.6 with Community Apps and Fix Common Problems plugins installed. I have a GA-7PESH2 motherboard with a SAS Expander. I have two SATA SSD drives (Cache 1 and 2) connected directly to the motherboard SATA3 ports. Two SATA drives (Parity 1 and 2) and three SAS drives (Disks 1, 2, and 3) all run through the SAS expander. Parity 1 and 2 and Disc 3 are all brand new, while Disks 2 and 3 are refurbished. I have been running SMART tests before setting up my shares and starting to transfer files. I keep getting an error message on Disk 1. Any time I tell it to start a SMART test it goes for about a second and then comes up with this message: “Errors occurred - Check SMART report.” Honestly the SMART report for all three SAS drives (Disks 1, 2, and 3) look very different from the SMART reports for the Parity and Cache drives, so I’m really not sure how to tell if/what errors are present. I’ve attached my system diagnostics. Any help here would be greatly appreciated! albus-diagnostics-20190111-1453.zip