ericwaetke Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 (edited) tatooine-diagnostics-20210118-1124.zipHi everyone, As you can guess, I'm very new to unraid. I've used a 2 tb Seagate Barracuda HDD for quite some time now on a Windows Rig which ran as a Plex and File-Share Server. That's obviously nowhere near ideal, hence the switch. The hard drive worked fine on Windows, and still does. When I attempt to start the Array with that disk, I get the following error Unmountable: Unsupported partition layout I've tried formatting, but that just puts out the following error: Unmountable disk present When I tried to manually format it in gparted, I couldn't even create a partition table. When I tried the same in windows, it worked. Because nothing else seemed to function, I formatted the drive in Windows and then format it in gparted as an xfs drive. Didn't change anything though. I've dd'd it afterwards, to no effect. I then erased everything in Preclear Disk, which finished, but didn't solve the problem. I also ran fsck, which told me I had a bad primary superblock - bad magic number !!! That couldn't solve the error either. Last night I ran the full Preclear Disk Check fully the second time (I didn't save the log the first time unfortunately) This is the log: Screenshot (Text) preclear.disk.txt I honestly don't know what to do now. I've read countless forum/reddit posts, spend the last 3 days trying to get this one drive working. Should I just send the harddrive to warrenty? Edit: This is the Preclear Preview Edit 2: syslog tatooine-diagnostics-20210118-1124.zip Edited January 18, 2021 by ericwaetke Added Syslog Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Basically this is the problem: Jan 18 00:22:45 Tatooine preclear_disk_WFL33WEX[8763]: Signature: failed test 1: MBR signature is not valid, byte 0 [10741] != [00000] Disk is returning different data than expected, this also why you get "invalid partition", Unraid checks for the MBR, can't tell you why though, try a different disk. Quote Link to comment
ericwaetke Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 35 minutes ago, JorgeB said: try a different disk Popped in a brand new Samsung 860 EVO, different SATA Cable and Port, still the same result... Preclear Result And the syslog tatooine-diagnostics-20210118-1250.zip I'm really puzzled about this. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 Jan 18 12:37:23 Tatooine preclear_disk_S3YJNS0N704931R[7562]: Signature: verifying unRAID's signature on the MBR ... Jan 18 12:37:23 Tatooine preclear_disk_S3YJNS0N704931R[7562]: Signature: Unraid preclear signature is valid! Jan 18 12:37:24 Tatooine preclear_disk_S3YJNS0N704931R[7562]: Post-Read: post-read verification started (1/5).... Jan 18 12:37:24 Tatooine preclear_disk_S3YJNS0N704931R[7562]: Post-Read: verifying the beginning of the disk. Jan 18 12:37:24 Tatooine preclear_disk_S3YJNS0N704931R[7562]: Post-Read: cmp /tmp/.preclear/sdb/fifo /dev/zero Jan 18 12:37:24 Tatooine preclear_disk_S3YJNS0N704931R[7562]: Post-Read: dd if=/dev/sdb of=/tmp/.preclear/sdb/fifo count=2096640 skip=512 iflag=nocache,count_bytes,skip_bytes Jan 18 12:37:25 Tatooine preclear_disk_S3YJNS0N704931R[7562]: Post-Read: fail - beginning of the disk not zeroed This time the MBR was valid but the disk wasn't correctly zeroed, or is now returning non zeros, since it still happens with a different device it points to a hardware problem, like bad RAM, controller, etc. Quote Link to comment
ericwaetke Posted January 18, 2021 Author Share Posted January 18, 2021 Hm, that doesn't sound good. I'll try different ram and an entirely different PC. Is there maybe a more sophisticated way of identifying the problem? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 18, 2021 Share Posted January 18, 2021 You can run Memtest from the Unraid boot menu. Quote Link to comment
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