December 18, 20214 yr Community Expert So I was driving home and started getting error emails that disks were disappearing. To my horror, my wife informed me that our toddler got into my office and disconnected 6 of the harddrives from my rackmount server. My wife caught him in the act and replugged them (they were not totally pulled from the enclosure so they are all in the original bays). All bays are hotswap and the drives are showing up in GUI as Unassigned Devices. 3 of the disks are part of the single parity protected array. One of these 3 is the parity disk itself. The other 3 are part of a separate cache pool of disks that is not parity protected. I'm still getting tons of continuous error emails as well. Am I totally f'ed? I can't even rebuild from parity because one of the disks is a parity disk and regardless, there are 2 other disks in the array that got pulled. Is there a way to just say "hey unraid, my bad, disks are here, they are fine, sorry"? Help Edited December 19, 20214 yr by CorserMoon
December 19, 20214 yr Community Expert Don't panic at this point!!! I think the problem is completely addressable but I am not a person who can provide this type of assistance. I am pinging @JorgeB as a person who often provides assistance on these types of problems. I believe @JorgeB is based in Europe so it will most likely be tomorrow before you hear back.
December 19, 20214 yr Community Expert First thing to do is to reboot (with all disks connected) to see the actual damage, pool should come back online and we'll see which disk got disabled.
December 19, 20214 yr Author Community Expert Thanks for the help. All disks green and parity check started. I think I may be ok.
December 19, 20214 yr Pheeew!!!. Good to hear. I couldn't help but forward the subject title to one of my friends who is a sysadmin professionally and father of three. He seemed quite impressed yours skipped the power button pressing phase entirely and went straight for drive yanking.
December 19, 20214 yr Community Expert 20 minutes ago, CorserMoon said: All disks green Surprised that one of the disks didn't get disabled, but lucky for you.
December 19, 20214 yr Author Community Expert 5 minutes ago, Shazster said: Pheeew!!!. Good to hear. I couldn't help but forward the subject title to one of my friends who is a sysadmin professionally and father of three. He seemed quite impressed yours skipped the power button pressing phase entirely and went straight for drive yanking. Yeah, I'm now in the process of looking into getting a locking cabinet... Edited December 19, 20214 yr by CorserMoon
December 19, 20214 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, CorserMoon said: Yeah, I'm now in the process of looking into getting a locking cabinet... Or the top of a VERY tall rack... 🤣 On a more serious thought, make sure that cabinet has adequate ventilation.
December 19, 20214 yr Author Community Expert 11 minutes ago, Frank1940 said: Or the top of a VERY tall rack... 🤣 On a more serious thought, make sure that cabinet has adequate ventilation. Yeah, that's why I originally went with an open rack. Will have to figure out proper ventilation without all the noise.
December 20, 20214 yr Community Expert Something like this? https://www.newegg.com/tripp-lite-srw10us-wall-mount-cabinet/p/N82E16816228068?Item=9SIA2F83425967
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