March 27, 20233 yr So I got this error notification that one of the drives is disabled. Here's some info on the box. -Fix Common Problems doesn't give any information why and I don't know where to go from here. -The drives are not even a year old and still under warranty. Bought Apr 2022. -This Unraid-Box sits in my office and does Windows backup daily, raw photo dump occasionally -My local backup for tons of raw photography files in their respective formats (.nef, .cr2, .raf plus some gopro videos in raw/compressed) (The compressed versions are backed up online but not the raws) -Also holds media for Plex (scheduled maints at 2am-5am daily) -The drives are set to spin down after 1 hour of inactivity -Version 6.12.0-rc2 (Uptime 5 days 9 hours 8 minutes) Currently running an extended smart test (short self test passed without errors) Any help is appreciated! Thank you in advance! xfs_repair -nv: terra-diagnostics-20230327-0958.zip Edited March 27, 20233 yr by darkslyde added unraid version, diag, xfs repair
March 27, 20233 yr Community Expert Solution Looks more like a power/connection problem, since there are some UDMA CRC errors replace the SATA cable and assuming the emulated disk is mounting and contents look correct you can rebuild on top. https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Storage_Management#Rebuilding_a_drive_onto_itself
March 27, 20233 yr Author Copy that! Shutting down the box, order new cables and update the post when those are done and I've rebuilt. Thank you for the help! PS: the cables I was using was this (CABLEDECONN High Speed 6Gbps 6pcs/Set Sata Cable SAS Cable for Server 0.5m) Is it bad practice to use these type of cables?
March 27, 20233 yr Community Expert No personal experience, can't really say one way or the other, could be a single bad cable, didn't look at SMART for the other drives, but if system notifications are enabled you will get a notification for any new CRC error.
March 27, 20233 yr Author Thank you for all the quick replies! I've decided to purchase individual cables for now. The drives are in a 5-disk hotswap bay (Silverstone CS351) so for now, I'm gonna say it's not the sata power cables. Edited March 27, 20233 yr by darkslyde cleared verbage
March 29, 20233 yr Author Update: -replaced problematic sata cables -checked emulated drive, looked good -extended smart test yielded no issues -rebuilt on top of original drive (stop array, unassigned the "bad" disk, started array, stopped again, re-assigned the same drive, start in maint mode, rebuild sync) -added another wd red plus for second parity tl;dr - it was bad sata cables - drive did not fail.
July 21, 2025Jul 21 Ran into this issue today and I'm using the same cables you're using. Worried I might be running into the same issue. What cables did you end up going with? How have they been since you've replaced them? Thanks.
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.