Parity Disk Disabled

[curtis-r]

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

[itimpi]

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. 

[curtis-r]

Got it.  Rebuilding...  Thanks.

[curtis-r]

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

[JorgeB]

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.

[curtis-r]

Yeah, I was afraid of that.  Thanks.