I had my first drive failure. I bought a new drive, same size, and replaced it. I stopped the array, replaced the drive, started the array. The new drive showed up and asked if I wanted to rebuild. I clicked ok. The progress said over 500min. I used the web interface to check it periodically over an hours time. I kept refreshing and it was slowly ticking away. I came back to check it and the unraid system unmounted from my macbook and I can not access it from the web interface. Is this normal? I powered it off and it booted up and ran through the same steps and then again unmounted itself. Im a little nervous that I can not keep an eye on it while it goes through its setup. It was a 2TB drive that failed and I replaced it with another 2TB. The failed drive was a fairly new drive so there wasnt too much data on it. Any ideas? or is this normal in a rebuild? Thanks

I had my first drive failure. I bought a new drive, same size, and replaced it. I stopped the array, replaced the drive, started the array. The new drive showed up and asked if I wanted to rebuild. I clicked ok. The progress said over 500min. I used the web interface to check it periodically over an hours time. I kept refreshing and it was slowly ticking away. I came back to check it and the unraid system unmounted from my macbook and I can not access it from the web interface. Is this normal? I powered it off and it booted up and ran through the same steps and then again unmounted itself. Im a little nervous that I can not keep an eye on it while it goes through its setup. It was a 2TB drive that failed and I replaced it with another 2TB. The failed drive was a fairly new drive so there wasnt too much data on it. Any ideas? or is this normal in a rebuild? Thanks

 

Not normal, but we need a syslog and a hardware breakdown to help much.

 

See the troubleshooting link in my sig for instructions on getting the syslog. Also, give us a list of all hardware that is in your machine.

 

It could very likely be that the new drive you put in is "bad" and not working correctly.  We need a syslog to be able to tell.

I will check when I get home. Luckily I can still access my info before I click rebuild. So I havnt sh*t my pants yet. Is it possible to move the data that is suppose to be the failed drive to other drives in the array? The failed drive is new so there isnt much data on it and I have at least 4tb of free space without that drive. Id rather get the drive out and troubleshoot later once the parity is in sync. Thanks

Yes. You can copy the files off of the simulated drive onto a real drive and then reset the configuration and compute parity.