jomack16 Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 As you can see from the image, The parity sync is going to take quite a while. I suspect that either a drive or a connection to a drive is causing the slowness, but I am unsure how to check that. I have attached the diagnostics for anyone that is kind enough to check them out for me. note* for anyone who cant see the image, or if it doesn't load for some reason, here are the numbers: Total Size: 12 TB Elapsed time: 11 minutes Current position: 44.9MB (0.0%) Estimated speed: 47.6KB/sec Estimated finish: 2903 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes jej-unraid-diagnostics-20210120-1057.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Problems with multiple disks, 8,9,10,11,12,13. 12 and 13 aren't even showing up in SMART. Probably controller or power issue. You have a Marvell controller. Are the problem disks on that controller? 1 Quote Link to comment
jomack16 Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 Yes, it is an 8 port controller (https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=160) Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 That controller is not recommended, you also have several disks connected with USB, that's even worse, and appears to be the main issue currently. 1 Quote Link to comment
jomack16 Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 Thanks for looking! I am soon to change the USB connection configuration, but I did not know that the controller was not recommended. The disks that are connected via USB are not currently in the array, would they still be causing the slowness on parity Sync? Also I am considering replacing that controller with this one instead: https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASR-72405-Adaptec-24-Port-1GB-Cache-6Gb-s-SAS-SATA-PCIe-3-RAID-Controller-Card/183570011464?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 Thoughts? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 14 minutes ago, jomack16 said: The disks that are connected via USB are not currently in the array When is currently? I looked at the beginning of the syslog in the diags, disks 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13 were connected with USB, then they dropped: Jan 15 13:01:40 JEJ-Unraid kernel: usb 2-4: Device not responding to setup address. ### [PREVIOUS LINE REPEATED 1 TIMES] ### Jan 15 13:01:41 JEJ-Unraid kernel: usb 2-4: device not accepting address 2, error -71 Jan 15 13:01:45 JEJ-Unraid kernel: usb usb2-port4: Cannot enable. Maybe the USB cable is bad? ### [PREVIOUS LINE REPEATED 2 TIMES] ### Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: usb 2-4: USB disconnect, device number 2 Then the disks errors: Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: disk1 write error, sector=4294967280 Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: recovery thread: exit status: -4 Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: disk8 read error, sector=8633241376 Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: disk9 read error, sector=8633241376 Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: disk10 read error, sector=8633241376 Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: disk11 read error, sector=8633241376 Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: disk12 read error, sector=8633241376 Jan 15 13:01:53 JEJ-Unraid kernel: md: disk13 read error, sector=8633241376 Array did change after that, but that part is not covered in the diags due to log spam so we can't really see the problem, reboot and post new diags 1 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 22 minutes ago, jomack16 said: Also I am considering replacing that controller with this one instead: https://www.ebay.com/itm/ASR-72405-Adaptec-24-Port-1GB-Cache-6Gb-s-SAS-SATA-PCIe-3-RAID-Controller-Card/183570011464?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2649 I'm more familiar with LSI controllers, but IIRC others users are using that one, still best to search the forum to confirm. 1 Quote Link to comment
jomack16 Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 I was finally able to reboot and get new diagnostic logs. Attached here. Curious if it shows anything other than the USB drives as an issue. jej-unraid-diagnostics-20210120-1512.zip Quote Link to comment
danejaho Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 I would highly recommend staying with the tried and true LSI/Dell SAS backplane cards in IT mode. This is by far the most common HBA in the Unraid community and they prove to be extremely reliable. Most HBAs only come with two SAS ports, but if you watch this you can see how to add up to 120 HDDs using a single HBA card. 1 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Did you still have any USB disks connected when you took those diagnostics? Quote Link to comment
jomack16 Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 I did. I am not physically at the server location, so I couldnt unplug the cable. Is that still mucking up the diagnostics? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Something is mucking it up. Are the USB connected disks assigned? Quote Link to comment
jomack16 Posted January 20, 2021 Author Share Posted January 20, 2021 The USB disks are not assigned, no. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 Port multiplier ata10 having a lot of problems in syslog. Don't know if that is the Marvell or not. Some people are able to have success with Marvell by disabling IOMMU (vt-d for intel) in the BIOS. Do you have any VMs that need that? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 7 hours ago, trurl said: is the Marvell Yes, the problem now is the Marvell controller with port multipliers. Quote Link to comment
jomack16 Posted January 21, 2021 Author Share Posted January 21, 2021 Awesome! Thanks so much for the help! I'll be replacing that controller as soon as possible with something from here: https://wiki.unraid.net/Hardware_Compatibility#PCI_SATA_Controllers Also, just in case someone comes across this in the future, This is the card that is causing the trouble: 8 Port SATA III PCE-e 2.0 x2 Card - SI-PEX40071 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 21, 2021 Share Posted January 21, 2021 Recommend you get one the recommended LSI controllers, any LSI with a SAS2008/2308/3008/3408 chipset in IT mode, e.g., 9201-8i, 9211-8i, 9207-8i, 9300-8i, 9400-8i, etc and clones, like the Dell H200/H310 and IBM M1015, these latter ones need to be crossflashed. Quote Link to comment
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