May 22, 20224 yr Hello all, I was recently tidying up the cable management in my unRAID server, and I accidentally forgot the order my sata cables were originally plugged into the drives. When I try to connect to the webgui I get a timeout error, and the screen is blank when connecting a monitor to the server. I had seen on the forum that reformating the USB drive could help by rebuilding the array, but this didn't seem to help (I backed up the original USB drive files.) I couldn't even get the fresh unRAID USB to boot. If there is anything else that I can do, then I would love to know. I don't want to lose anything in the server, but nothing on it is important. There are 5 6tb hard drives and one 120gb cache ssd. I planned to remove one of the hard drives because it was having sector errors when reading. To clarify, I changed nothing except the order of the SATA cables, so there shouldn't be any hardware fault considering this server was running fine a few hours ago with weeks of uptime. Thanks for any help, Thor.
May 23, 20224 yr On 5/22/2022 at 7:43 PM, ThorS said: accidentally forgot the order my sata cables were originally plugged into the drives Unraid doesn't care about that. It identifies disks by their serial number, assuming your controller(s) consistently pass that information. On 5/22/2022 at 7:43 PM, ThorS said: seen on the forum that reformating the USB drive could help by rebuilding the array Don't know where you got that idea and no good reason to "rebuild the array". If you did a clean install without your config folder then it wouldn't remember any of your disk assignments but the data should be OK if you don't make a mistake. On 5/22/2022 at 7:43 PM, ThorS said: couldn't even get the fresh unRAID USB to boot Can you get to the BIOS?
May 23, 20224 yr Author Hello, I got the fresh install to boot. If I try to use the old config files from the original install, then it will boot, but I cannot access the webgui without a timeout. If I access the webgui with the fresh install, then I can't try to make the server from scratch because my product key isn't able to be verified on the USB drive. I have contacted support about the product key issue, but I am not sure exactly what happened to my install. Thanks for the quick response, Thor
May 23, 20224 yr 11 hours ago, ThorS said: product key isn't able to be verified on the USB drive Do you mean you are using a different flash drive?
May 23, 20224 yr Author Solution 5 hours ago, trurl said: Do you mean you are using a different flash drive? No I was using the same USB drive. I ended up just reformatting my USB and starting over. I'm currently rebuilding parity. Thanks for the help.
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