Looking for some help
this is going to get long but I want to give as much info as I can to keep from having redundant replies
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I have 8 8tb drives(combination of WD red and White drives), all where bought in April of last year and all have been in my server since
about 3 weeks ago something happened and the server (raid controller) would not see the drives.
What I found is if I reboot and as the post is coming up I goto the raid controller bios and scan for the drives it will find them BUT they are greyed out, I cant do anything with them and it says no arrays found
If I power cycle the drives (BUT NOT the server) and rescan for the drives they come up I can init them and do whatever I want but when I exit and the machine reboots as it posts it will say no drives/arrays found and again unraid does not see anything
I can then power cycle the drives (BUT NOT THE SERVER)
wait for unraid to see the drives do a new confi setup
assign the drives, format built the shares and copy data to them
BUT if I power cycle/reboot the server the whole thing starts all over again and when I get to unraid it cant see them
I power cycle the drives it sees them I start the array and it says it has to format the drives again and I loose everything thats on them.
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Now if I pull the 8tb drives and just go with some standard WD desktop drives everything works fine.
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Remember this has been running for over a year on the 8tb drives with no issues until 3 weeks ago
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pin3 mod does not make a difference
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All of the 8tb drives and be placed in my standard pc formated and used with no issues
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I have tried using HBA mode and building an array out of the drives
It does the same thing either way
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Anyone seen this before or have any idea what is going on