nGran Posted November 20, 2022 Share Posted November 20, 2022 So, the situation is the following: for 1 year, i had this configuration working perfectly: one 6TB HDD for parity two 6TB HDDs for data. I just bought two new 6TB drives, and wanted to add them to the array as data drives so i will get one disk for parity and 4 for data. After adding the hardware to the server i added them "disk 3" and "disk 4" slots in the array. (I did not run pre-clear or something like that, but directly added them) It took some time to update the parity, and i got to the following place: As i understand that is expected, because now the parity drive includes what is on the two brand new drives, but there is no file system on them. So i go and run the format on the bottom of the page. Format starts, page refreshes. and few seconds later i am back to square 1, like i never clicked the format button. when i opened the console, i see this: I did try this several times and with the same result. I restarted the server and still the same thing. I have try to start the array in maintenance mode and format it like that, still same thing. While reading around i found out about "unassigned devices" plugin and tried several things with it as well. I stopped the array and removed one of the drives and using "unassigned devices" ran pre-clear. it was perfectly fine, no errors. I added it back to the array and waited around 8hours for the parity to finish rebuilding. when trying to format i get the same problem. I have also tried to run the "erase" command from "unassigned devices" on one of the drives, but same result. I have also tried to format it using "unassigned devices" but there i am not sure what is going on, because after page refreshes, i get no messages, but also the "FS" column for the drives is empty, so i have the impression that it did nothing. Anyway, after i added it back, still same as before. if i was adding only one drive, i can assume that it is broken out of the box, but what is the chance both new drives to be broken? i have the feeling that i am not doing something correct here. I need to save the data on my original two drives, but the new ones i do not care, they never had any file system on them, let alone data. I was thinking if i start from scratch (let say new install of Unraid, or somehow new config for the actual array) can i keep my data from my original two drives as well? Of course i prefer to fix this one if possible, but i have already spend almost 4 days testing different ideas i find, so what is 2 days setupping Unraid from scratch Diagnostics file attached. diagnostics-20221120-1451.zip Quote Link to comment
Solution Kilrah Posted November 20, 2022 Solution Share Posted November 20, 2022 Update unraid, 6.11.2 has a bug with formatting. 1 Quote Link to comment
nGran Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 lol if that is the problem it will be super fail form unraid side. I updated few weeks ago, and literally after the reboot was done, one of my nvme ssd drives stopped working, I just assumed that it is coincidence, and the drive just died for unrelated reason, but maybe it was not. Anyway, thanks for the info, I did not know there is even newer versions, i will try 6.11.4 and if it dose not resolve it, i may try with reverting to something older. Hope no other issues will come from this. Quote Link to comment
nGran Posted November 20, 2022 Author Share Posted November 20, 2022 Ok, yea that was the problem. i updated to 6.11.4 and it is resolved. Thanks a lot for the help, you saved me so much time Quote Link to comment
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