It has been an interesting week.   

 

Here are the details:

 

- Flash drive failed - does not respond at all (tried several PC's)

- One data drive failed - heard a nasty clicking sound when rebooting, a great example of murphys law....

- Backup flash drive installed and working

- I do NOT have the original configuration files (rookie mistake - should have copied this whenever I made a change to the array....)

- I know the locations for the drives as they have been installed from the top down

- Drive 2 is the drive that has died.

- Running Unraid 4.1 (although originally was running 3.x)

 

I have attached screenshots of the devices page and main page as well as the disk.cfg file.  See reply for the last attachment as the combined size was greater than the attachment limit for the forum.

 

Questions:

- Is it as simple as swapping in the replacement drive and assigning it to device 2?

- How do I bring the array on-line without rebuilding the parity drive and initiate rebuild of drive 2?

- What am I missing??

 

Thanks for the help.

 

Kevin

 

 

No screenshots

Here is the devices file.  It would not let me add it to the original post.

 

Kd

 

Should I post this in a differnt forum??  Usually the responses are a little faster at this site.  Just wondering if I made a mistake.

 

Kevin

 

Send an e-mail to Tom.  He is best able to guide you.

 

Basically, you must replace the missing drive and also re-create the super.dat file that would have been there if your flash drive had not died.

 

The creation of the super.dat file is the issue...  You probably have one now, but it thinks parity is bad.  You need for your array to think the parity drive is valid.  I don't know how to do that.

 

Joe L.

 

edit: actually, looking at the first screen shot, it says "initial configuration" so you might not have a super.dat file yet.

 

Whatever you do, unless the contents of the disk that failed does not matter, do not start the array and overwrite the parity that currently exists.  Wait for Tom to respond.

 

Joe L.

Kevin, did you ever sort this out?  I don't believe I received any email from you.

It has not been sorted out.  I sent an email early last week - not sure why it was not received as I did not get a bounce message.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks,

Kevin