November 7, 20214 yr I had a drive die so I purchased a new drive. WD 3TB NAS Red drive. But it does not show up to be formatted and does not show up in preclear. I put the drive in a desktop computer and it formatted just fine. I tried new cables and ports in server, but it still will not show up. I am running 6.9.2. I'm not sure what to do. What do I do next? Thank you, John tower-diagnostics-20211107-1441.zip
November 7, 20214 yr Community Expert Disk2 missing but emulated disk2 mounted. 20 minutes ago, johnzimm said: had a drive die How did you decide the drive was the problem? Bad connections are much more common than bad disks. 21 minutes ago, johnzimm said: it does not show up Perhaps that same bad connection. Why are all your disks still ReiserFS?
November 7, 20214 yr Author I decided that the drive was bad because I got this email from the server. "Event: Unraid Disk 2 error Subject: Alert [TOWER] - Disk 2 in error state (disk dsbl) Description: ST3000DM007-1WY10G_ZFN43RPN (sdb) Importance: alert" When I logged in it had a red x next to it. I don't know how to do much investigating to solve the problem... So I just replaced the drive. If I get it to see the new drive and repopulate it... Could I change them over to a different file format one by one? What are you using... I've had it running for so many years, that I haven't thought of changing to a different file system.
November 7, 20214 yr Community Expert 13 minutes ago, johnzimm said: it had a red x next to it. I don't know how to do much investigating to solve the problem Why didn't you ask? Do you still have the original disk?
November 7, 20214 yr Author Sorry, I'm not used to forums being nice, or helpful. I do have the original, but I already reformated in a desktop.
November 8, 20214 yr Author These show up... Soooo, no. I don't see it. I ordered all new cables... Mine look like they were from the junk draw. Is there a way to see in the bios if all the data ports are working? Edited November 8, 20214 yr by johnzimm Update
November 8, 20214 yr Community Expert 7 hours ago, johnzimm said: WD 3TB NAS Red drive Is this a shucked drive?
November 8, 20214 yr 10 hours ago, trurl said: Is this a shucked drive? 1 hour ago, johnzimm said: No, I got it as an external drive. That's confusing. Did you: purchase an USB drive like this https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-External-Desktop-WDBWLG0030HBK-NESN/dp/B00HZ0RWY0 and removed (shucked) its enclosure or purchased a regular hard drive like this https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Plus-Internal-Drive/dp/B08VH9NDV7
November 8, 20214 yr Author Thank you so much. The new cables came in today. We took out all the drives and my son dusted the whole server. Then we installed the new cables... and after it fired up, it immediately saw the new drive! Thanks again. That gets a bit scary when things go wrong,(even though I have back ups of the important stuff. BTW, after it pre-clears and repopulates, should I look into switching over to a better file system? Thank you again, John
November 9, 20214 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, johnzimm said: switching over to a better file system? Yes https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Storage_Management#Converting_to_a_new_File_System_type
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