January 29, 20233 yr Though I'm not aware of any notifications, I just noticed my parity drive is disabled with the red 'x'. Mouse-over displays, "Parity device is disabled. Click to spin up device." Clicking starts the progress arrows, but when complete is still disabled. Then the mouse-over says, 'Click to spin down device'. I rebooted earlier, so hopefully there is something useful in the diag (attached). A SMART short self-test was good. Thanks in advance. tower-diagnostics-20230129-1104.zip
January 29, 20233 yr Community Expert The only standard way to clear a ‘disabled’ state on a drive is to rebuild it. Since you rebooted the diagnostics do not show what lead up to the drive being disabled as syslog resets on each boot. If you want a persistent log that survives a reboot you have to enable the syslog server.
June 2, 20233 yr Author My parity disabled again & the rebuild had parity disk errors, so I swapped out with a new drive. Though that rebuild isn't finished (no parity errors), as the parity is 4TB larger than any other drive, I think it's done with scanning my existing drives, and there are 108 errors on disk5. Any thoughts on the problem (diagnostics attached)? Thanks in advance. tower-diagnostics-20230602-0800.zip
June 2, 20233 yr Community Expert Disk5 has pending sectors and failed a SMART test, so it should be replaced before syncing parity, you can try to copy any data there manually or use ddrescue tp clone it to a new disk.
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