DukeVimes Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 Version 6.11.5 I significantly upgraded my setup a few weeks ago, swapped out a 6TB parity and several 4TB and 6TB array drives for a 14TB parity and 2x 14TB array drives. Things have been fine (or so I thought), but I went in to make some changes to my Plex Docker this evening, and received an error message about a drive having some sort of issue. Unfortunately, I didn't screenshot or otherwise write down what that error was. However, I did download the diagnostics and SMART reports (attached) before I shut down. I switched SATA and power cables to make sure it wasn't one of those, but the drive still seems to be missing. Hoping there's something in the log files that points towards an answer, I just don't know what to look for. tower-diagnostics-20230530-1736.zip tower-smart-20230530-1735.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 Disk dropped offline, so SMART is empty, this is usually a power/connection problem, check/replace cables and post new diags after array start. Quote Link to comment
DukeVimes Posted June 1, 2023 Author Share Posted June 1, 2023 @JorgeB, I might have just done something pretty bad. I wasn't able to get that drive to work, so I figured I'd add in some smaller/older drives and then rebuild the array that way. I put the drives in, but wasn't able to start the array, as it said I couldn't both remove and add drives at the same time. So... I did a New Config, thinking that since 1 array drive and the parity drive were going to stay the same, it would be fine. I put all of the drives in the new config, and started the array for a Parity-Sync. But instead of reading from the parity and writing to the array like I expected, it started reading from the array and writing to the parity. Additionally, the original 14TB functioning array drive from the pre-breakdown setup is now listed as "Unmountable: Unsupported or no file system". The array is currently started, but I've paused the Parity-Sync and am just sitting in a bit of limbo now. I've downloaded and attached my latest diagnostics file, and I'm desperately hoping that I didn't just erase the entire contents of my server. I'm not religious, but if there are gods of technology, I'm about to go burn a CD at their altar if I can recover from this self-inflicted snafu. tower-diagnostics-20230531-2257.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 1 hour ago, DukeVimes said: But instead of reading from the parity and writing to the array like I expected, it started reading from the array and writing to the parity. That's what the new config does, there's a warning there that it should never be used to rebuild a disk. You you able to get the disk that dropped online? Quote Link to comment
DukeVimes Posted June 1, 2023 Author Share Posted June 1, 2023 @JorgeB no, it appears to be completely dead, tried different power and sata cables and even an external enclosure, can't even get it to spin up. If I'm able to fix it somehow, is there a way to "roll back" to the last config using it and the other two original drives, even though I've deleted that config, and now started to overwrite the parity? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 You could do a new config to force disable that disk, but since parity was overwritten IMHO there's not much point, you can recreate the array without that disk. Quote Link to comment
DukeVimes Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 11 hours ago, JorgeB said: you can recreate the array without that disk. Hi @JorgeB, I apologize for monopolizing your time like this, if there's a paid resource/tech support or someone else who you'd like me to reach out to, I'm happy to do that. Potentially losing about 15TB of data has me a little out of sorts at the moment. You mentioned that I can recreate the array without 'that' disk. For clarification, here are the statuses of the 3 disks that comprised my array before the initial issues happened earlier this week: Drive A, 14TB is the array drive which stopped responding, prompting me to start this thread. I've tried swapping power and SATA cables, as well as plugging it into an external bay on my desktop, but it doesn't appear to be powering on at all. Drive B, 14TB is the array drive that, after doing a New Config, is listed as "Unmountable, Unsupported or no file system" Drive C, 14TB is my parity drive, which since the New Config appears to be being overwritten by the new array I created. Despite my pausing the parity sync last night, it apparently restarted, and is now 73% complete. From my understanding, I need any two of the original three disks intact/functioning, which I then could use to rebuild the third. Since Drive C, my parity drive, is now being overwritten, that would mean that I need to get Drive A working, then somehow recreate an array with it and Drive B, which can rebuild the (correct) parity onto Drive C. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 8 hours ago, DukeVimes said: Drive B, 14TB is the array drive that, after doing a New Config, is listed as "Unmountable, Unsupported or no file system" This drive should be recoverable, assuming nothing else happened to it, there are some Unraid driver crashes in the last diags, so first step is to reboot and post new diags after array start. 8 hours ago, DukeVimes said: Drive A, 14TB is the array drive which stopped responding, prompting me to start this thread. I've tried swapping power and SATA cables, as well as plugging it into an external bay on my desktop, but it doesn't appear to be powering on at all. Since parity was overwritten there's no possibility of recovering the data on this drive unless you can get it working again. Quote Link to comment
DukeVimes Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 Attached is a new set of logs downloaded just now, array is online and functional with the exception of Drive B being listed as unmountable. tower-diagnostics-20230602-1345.zip Quote Link to comment
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