dp12776 Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Hi Unraid Community. Thank you to everyone helping out in here. Using this forum to learn from others has been a massive help in building my first unraid server. Unfortunately, now i have run into some issues that are very specific for my own server so I need to ask the community for help. I am working away from home(seaman) and have been operating my server with a wireguard VPN tunnel. This means that I can't do anything physical to the server at the moment, save for getting the wife to press the power button if needed. Three nights in a row, I have "lost" the drives that run off my HBA LSI card. In reality only drive 8 was registered as missing but the others show thousands of errors. Each morning, i had been able to get it all back by powering down the server and powering on again. It then starts rebuilding drive 8 and everything looked fine. Until sometime in the night when it happens again. My guess was that the HBA card is broken and I was about to order a new one. The third time it happened, however, a new fault has come up. This time it is telling me that on top of the errors on the drives, my flash drive is corrupted. Is this related or a new fault? I dont even dare to try and reboot the server now in case the flash drive is truly screwed up. It is a quality sandisk drive that has only been running since mid December. I worry about not being able to run the server, as i am running Pi-hole on it and it therefore creates the DNS for my home network. I believe that if the server isn't running, the internet in the house will not work. My wife would not be too happy about not having wifi the next ten weeks, just because i have been experimenting. Attached is the diagnostics file and a screenshot of my main page. I dont know if these provide enough info? Let me know and i can give more. Thanks in advance if anyone knows what is going on and how to get out of this trouble. Best regards Daniel alameda-diagnostics-20230122-0616.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 Jan 21 20:23:05 Alameda kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: SAS host is non-operational !!!! You you can do it physically check that the HBA is well seated and sufficiently cooled, you can also try a different PCIe slot, can't comment on the flash drive errors because log is filed with the disk errors, try rebooting. Quote Link to comment
dp12776 Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 Hi JorgeB, In fact, i had my wife check the card the first two times. I dont know if it was her touching it that solved it those two times. But if it keeps happening every night, surely it is not the card that shakes loose if it had been running fine for many weeks up to that? Can i reboot now that it says the flashdrive is corrupted? As mentioned, I dont have a chance to do anything on it physically for another 10 weeks. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 15 minutes ago, dp12776 said: Can i reboot now that it says the flashdrive is corrupted? *Should* be OK, it's still mounted in the diags. Quote Link to comment
dp12776 Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 Quote Ok. I am really nervous about doing it as if it doesnt start, there will be no internet for my family for 10 weeks. Are there any things i can do to prepare for the worst? Does it make sense to do a backup of the flash now that it is corrupted? What about afterwards, if it does start up, would a new diagnostics log show why the flash drive was affected? Finally, should i just bite the bullet and buy a new HBA card straight away? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 6 minutes ago, dp12776 said: Ok. I am really nervous about doing it as if it doesnt start, there will be no internet for my family for 10 weeks. If it's working at the moment and you don't need the array probably best to leave it like that then. Quote Link to comment
dp12776 Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 The plot thickens. I went onto the server again, only to find that it has randomly rebooted itself. I have started the array in maintenance mode without disk 8. Stopped the array again and reassigned disk 8. It is now doing data rebuild again. The flash drive seems fine now. No idea why it just rebooted itself. I wanted to attach a diagnostics file, but after having waited 15 minutes for it to download i gave up. Instead is attached a syslog file. What the heck is going on? Pretty sure it will just fail again tonight. alameda-syslog-20230123-1345.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 23, 2023 Share Posted January 23, 2023 So far look good but without any changes the HBA will likely crash again. Quote Link to comment
dp12776 Posted January 23, 2023 Author Share Posted January 23, 2023 Thanks for your help Jorge. I will order a new one. The wife assures me she can install it with me on a video call... Quote Link to comment
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