James_Darkness Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 (edited) so after i moved my server my usb flash drive failed on me along with a sata cable for my Parity drive two. after getting another flash drive i booted the server up with only one Parity drive. after that flash drive failed shortly after I'm on my 3rd usb flash drive and i also got a new sata cable. but my drives are gray instead of green so i did a Parity Check with the "Write corrections to parity" check box off it found errors so i ran it again with Write corrections to parity on but it found no errors. Edited June 13, 2022 by James_Darkness Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 1 hour ago, James_Darkness said: did a Parity Check with the "Write corrections to parity" it found errors So you had it correct parity errors? 1 hour ago, James_Darkness said: ran it again with Write corrections to parity on but it found no errors. Then there were no parity errors because they had already been corrected on that previous check? Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 8, 2022 Author Share Posted June 8, 2022 1 hour ago, trurl said: So you had it correct parity errors? Then there were no parity errors because they had already been corrected on that previous check? sorry I just edited it I meant to say "Write corrections to parity" off Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Have you rebooted since that first parity check? Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 11, 2022 Author Share Posted June 11, 2022 On 6/9/2022 at 8:01 AM, trurl said: Have you rebooted since that first parity check? Yes multiple times. I even now did a 3rd parity check Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 11, 2022 Share Posted June 11, 2022 The reason I asked about rebooting is because I was hoping you had not. Syslog resets on reboot so we have lost all syslog information about those previous parity checks. 2 hours ago, James_Darkness said: I even now did a 3rd parity check Don't reboot. Do another non-correcting parity check without rebooting and then post diagnostics so we can compare them. Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 12, 2022 Author Share Posted June 12, 2022 On 6/11/2022 at 6:25 AM, trurl said: The reason I asked about rebooting is because I was hoping you had not. Syslog resets on reboot so we have lost all syslog information about those previous parity checks. Don't reboot. Do another non-correcting parity check without rebooting and then post diagnostics so we can compare them. ok and it didn't find any errors again if its not parity could it be something else unraidnas-diagnostics-20220612-1738.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 12, 2022 Share Posted June 12, 2022 I think the most likely explanation is you had parity errors for some reason, you corrected those, and now parity is correct. One thing that can cause inconsistent parity checks is bad RAM, but it looks like your parity checks are consistent now. Have you been following the discussions on the 6.10 release threads as it relates to Dell and NICs? Your syslog seems to have a lot of dumps related to that on startup, don't know if it is relevant or not. Did you upgrade Unraid during the parity checks in question? Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 3 hours ago, trurl said: I think the most likely explanation is you had parity errors for some reason, you corrected those, and now parity is correct. One thing that can cause inconsistent parity checks is bad RAM, but it looks like your parity checks are consistent now. Have you been following the discussions on the 6.10 release threads as it relates to Dell and NICs? Your syslog seems to have a lot of dumps related to that on startup, don't know if it is relevant or not. Did you upgrade Unraid during the parity checks in question? I know why I had parity errors I was using only one of my two parity drives. my parity drive two sata cable broke so for a few days i ran it with only one drive and put in the new cable a few days later. but all my drives are gray instead of green right after that. should I or can I force a rebuild of my second parity drive to fix this issue Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 8 hours ago, James_Darkness said: my parity drive two sata cable broke so for a few days i ran it with only one drive and put in the new cable a few days later Your description of what you did with parity2 is lacking enough details to know what happened. If you ran without parity2 and without doing New Config to remove parity2 from the array, then parity2 would have become disabled when it couldn't be written. If you did remove parity2 with New Config, then it wouldn't have become disabled since nothing was assigned as parity2. Either way, if you reassigned parity2, it would have been rebuilt when you started the array. If you aren't still getting sync errors then parity2 must have been rebuilt when you reassigned it, or corrected when you did a correcting parity check. Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 5 hours ago, trurl said: Your description of what you did with parity2 is lacking enough details to know what happened. If you ran without parity2 and without doing New Config to remove parity2 from the array, then parity2 would have become disabled when it couldn't be written. If you did remove parity2 with New Config, then it wouldn't have become disabled since nothing was assigned as parity2. Either way, if you reassigned parity2, it would have been rebuilt when you started the array. If you aren't still getting sync errors then parity2 must have been rebuilt when you reassigned it, or corrected when you did a correcting parity check. at the same time my flash drive broke so when i got a new sata cable i also restored my unraid with the backup that had both parity drives Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 13, 2022 Share Posted June 13, 2022 1 hour ago, James_Darkness said: at the same time my flash drive broke so when i got a new sata cable i also restored my unraid with the backup that had both parity drives So you reset your configuration to what it was on that backup then Unraid doesn't remember anything that happened after that backup was taken. In the parity history screenshot in the first post, when did this flash drive reset occur? Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 13, 2022 Author Share Posted June 13, 2022 (edited) 4 hours ago, trurl said: So you reset your configuration to what it was on that backup then Unraid doesn't remember anything that happened after that backup was taken. In the parity history screenshot in the first post, when did this flash drive reset occur? This is the 3rd USB actrul but the time line is. on my second USB I run it with one parity drive instead of two. 3 days later when that flash drive also brakes I run it with the same old backup of the flash drive that I used to make the second flash drive 3 days ago. to make my new 3rd USB that I'm using now. I also plug in the second parity Drive in Edited June 13, 2022 by James_Darkness Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Not entirely clear about your response, but if you run a non-correcting parity check and it finds no parity errors then everything should be OK now. Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 16, 2022 Author Share Posted June 16, 2022 On 6/14/2022 at 9:11 AM, trurl said: Not entirely clear about your response, but if you run a non-correcting parity check and it finds no parity errors then everything should be OK now. But why is everything gray then? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted June 16, 2022 Share Posted June 16, 2022 32 minutes ago, James_Darkness said: But why is everything gray then? What do you mean? What exactly is gray? Screenshot? Your earlier screenshots had all drives green. Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 18, 2022 Author Share Posted June 18, 2022 On 6/15/2022 at 10:31 PM, trurl said: What do you mean? What exactly is gray? Screenshot? Your earlier screenshots had all drives green. None of my screens shots show green? To be more precise and exact I'm talking about how much storage is being used or free is colored gray instead of green Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted June 18, 2022 Share Posted June 18, 2022 2 hours ago, James_Darkness said: None of my screens shots show green? To be more precise and exact I'm talking about how much storage is being used or free is colored gray instead of green That's a setting I think : Settings / Display Settings / Used/Free columns Quote Link to comment
James_Darkness Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 On 6/18/2022 at 1:18 AM, ChatNoir said: That's a setting I think : Settings / Display Settings / Used/Free columns o, I'm sorry. I thought I meant something went wrong. id didn't change that setting. must be a new default Quote Link to comment
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