juhendri Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 (edited) I attempted to replace a parity drive with a new 10tb SAS drive. Found out the hard way that the crappy perc h700 raid card in my shitty dell 500 series server does not see but 1.1gb. I am afraid I will loose data if I upgrade the firmware. The original Parity sync was only supposed to be 18 hours. It has been like this all day. I have searched high and low to find an answer. Any advice would be awesome. Edited September 12, 2023 by juhendri Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 Attach diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread. Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 12, 2023 Author Share Posted September 12, 2023 datawhore-diagnostics-20230912-1936.zip Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 RAID controllers are not recommended with Unraid for many reasons. Don't understand what you mean by 1.1GB though. Is that a typo? Your previous parity must have been at least 4TB since you have data disks that large. Or are you talking about speed? Is anything writing to your server while you are trying to build parity? Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 12, 2023 Author Share Posted September 12, 2023 I forgot to mention that it is syncing 2 drives at the same time. A parity drive and a data drive. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 https://forums.unraid.net/topic/102010-recommended-controllers-for-unraid/ On 1/29/2021 at 7:57 AM, JorgeB said: RAID controllers are not recommended for Unraid, this includes all LSI MegaRAID models, doesn't mean they cannot be used but there could be various issues because of that, like no SMART info and/or temps being displayed, disks not being recognized by Unraid if the controller is replaced with a different model, and in some cases the partitions can become invalid, requiring rebuilding all the disks. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 12, 2023 Share Posted September 12, 2023 3 minutes ago, juhendri said: I forgot to mention that it is syncing 2 drives at the same time. A parity drive and a data drive. I can see that in the diagnostics. Shouldn't matter if things are working well since they are done in parallel. 4 minutes ago, trurl said: Is anything writing to your server? Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 The raid controller only showed 1.1gb in size when I tried to format the 10tb SAS drive. Nothing is writing to the disks. Both parity drives are 4tb and then the 6 that follow them. Then I have 5 other disks hooked up in ways you all would gasp at. All due to lack of money. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 13, 2023 Share Posted September 13, 2023 4 minutes ago, juhendri said: The raid controller only showed 1.1gb in size when I tried to format the 10tb SAS drive. Why are you trying to format anything? Format is never part of rebuild, whether rebuilding parity or rebuilding a data disk. Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 Not format. I meant to say convert to a virtual drive with raid 0. Either way the raid card would not convert it nor see its full size. Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 13, 2023 Author Share Posted September 13, 2023 I am still stuck today. The parity sync has not finished. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 post new diagnostics Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 I turned a few things ( sabnzbd, sonarr, radarr ) on temporarily to see if I could get the parity to finally finish. No luck. I have been doing some reading on the h700 perc card. I see I could update the firmware. The only problem is I don't have a working OS to use for the installer/upgrade of the firmware. Also, If I do the firmware upgrade where does it get installed? My set up is super simple. I really don't even need the cache drive so I am planning on doing something different with that, just don't know yet. datawhore-diagnostics-20230914-0826.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 There's a known issue with those Dell controllers and parity getting stuck, AFAIK there's no solution other than using a different controller, also please note that RAID controllers are not recommended with Unraid. Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: There's a known issue with those Dell controllers and parity getting stuck, AFAIK there's no solution other than using a different controller, also please note that RAID controllers are not recommended with Unraid. Understood. I was under the impression it does work better with the LSi models compared to dell. I plan to build a 2 part in the future. a server case with PC set up inside and parity on local disks and then a jbod for storage. Is that a bad plan? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 RAID controllers in general are not recommend, but LSI Megaraid usually work, with its limitations, but if possible really recommend getting an LSI HBA instead, one of these: Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 1 hour ago, JorgeB said: RAID controllers in general are not recommend, but LSI Megaraid usually work, with its limitations, but if possible really recommend getting an LSI HBA instead, one of these: I have 2 of those hooked up with stat cables coming out of the back of the server. lol That is my jank set up. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 14, 2023 Share Posted September 14, 2023 1 hour ago, juhendri said: 2 of those That thread has examples of 10's of different controllers. "those" tells us nothing. Quote Link to comment
juhendri Posted September 14, 2023 Author Share Posted September 14, 2023 19 minutes ago, JonathanM said: That thread has examples of 10's of different controllers. "those" tells us nothing. Sorry, I did not realize it was another thread until I just clicked on it. I have 8 internal drives on a back plane that goes to the perc card. Then I have 4 external drives connected via SATA cables through the back of the server into 2 different cards similar to the one below. Quote Link to comment
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