[SOLVED] Too Many Wrong and/or Missing Disks

[tzotz]

Guys,

I tried to upgrade to version 6.9.0 - the upgrade seemed to be going fine and after completion it read "REBOOT SERVER" which I did.  When the unraid did not start in 3-4 minutes I went to see the server monitor and I noticed that it's in an endless boot loop - I took a snapshot of the screen (see below) and thought that there was something wrong with the boot usb.  I replaced it with a backup that I had and it booted fine but the backup disk configuration changed from the time the backup was taken.  I have a record of the new configuration and I updated the configuration to reflect what I know the disks are (see below) - and that's when I stopped afraid to do damage the server irreparably. 

 

Questions:

(1) did I do the right thing up to now?

(2) if do how do I proceed

(3) if not how do I proceed

(4) how do I replace the damaged usb to create a new backup.

 

Thanks for all your help.

 

Best regards,

 

tzotz

Edited March 4, 2021 by tzotz

[JorgeB]

Go to Tools -> New config

 

Then re-assign all the disks as they should be, check "parity is already valid" before array start, start array.

[tzotz]

Hi, thanks,

 

I'm sorry I don't quite understand the steps to be followed.

 

Let me see if I understood:

 

1) First go to TOOLS-> New Config 

     Preserve Current Assignments "None"

     check "I want to do this"

     then APPLY 

 

following that

(2) re-assign disks

(3) Start the array and check parity is already valid

(4) Do parity check

 

Appreciate your help,

 

Thanks

[JorgeB]

Correct, make sure you double check the assignments, most importantly don't assign any data disk to a parity slot.

[tzotz]

Many thanks for your support.

Server went up OK no errors after parity check.

Appreciate your help, thanks again.

tzotz