I checked all cables and reseated both of my HBA cards. Currently on a 2nd try at running a parity sync the first time it stooped but its now showing disk1 is also having errors. am I in danger of losing data? no sure how to proceed.

plexserver-diagnostics-20230929-0951.zip

Edited September 29, 20232 yr by fespinoza831

It's not logged as a disk problem, and the disk looks healthy, could be a power/connection issue, but I've also been seeing some issue with older LSI SAS2 controllers and high capacity Seagate drives, so could also be that.

Well the parity sync is at 10 % now so it seems to be moving along. But disk1 is showing  tons of errors. how should I proceed once the parity sync is complete? both of my cards are the ones below. what would your recommendation be in regards to the cards. any way to determine if it is the card? can I still have docker enabled during a parity sync to watch Plex? I currently have it disabled.

 

9207-8i PCIE3.0 6Gbps HBA LSI FW:P20 IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 2* SFF-8087 US

Parity is still running but  there's tons of issues There are no exportable user shares

 

/var/log is getting full (currently 100 % used)

 

and the paths below dont exist

 

/mnt/user/appdata/

/mnt/user/system/docker/docker.img

plexserver-diagnostics-20230929-1505.zip

Edited September 29, 20232 yr by fespinoza831

13 hours ago, fespinoza831 said:

Well the parity sync is at 10 % now so it seems to be moving along. But disk1 is showing  tons of errors.

No point in continuing with read errors on other disks, cancel, check connections and try again.

Even though the errors are on disk1 and not the parity drive?

Parity can't be built correctly if disk1 can't be read.

Restarted, checked all cables, all drives appeared good one it was up again. Started the parity sync, but I still get errors on disk 1 once the parity starts. not sure how to proceed.

plexserver-diagnostics-20230930-0645.zip

Disk 1 is now disabled and im still trying to run the parity sync, am I going to loose what was on disk 1 and if so is there any way to find out what was on it.

plexserver-diagnostics-20230930-0717.zip

i got more disks with errors now. What should I do?

Parity drive seems fine now but it only took 30 minutes to sync which i thought was odd.  but disk 1  is not installed any time i add it its starts acting up.  how would I go about using disk 1 as a 2nd parity drive and finding out what I lost on disk1.  i really just want to make sure Im protected and make sure these issue were resolved.

plexserver-diagnostics-20230930-1027.zip

At this point im willing to pay someone for help.

19 hours ago, fespinoza831 said:

but I still get errors on disk 1

Still looks like a power/connection problem, replace or swap cables at least.

 

15 hours ago, fespinoza831 said:

Parity drive seems fine now but it only took 30 minutes to sync

Because it will skip over the affected sectors, but it won't be OK, there can't be any read errors during the parity sync or it won't be 100% correct.

 

11 hours ago, fespinoza831 said:

At this point im willing to pay someone for help.

https://unraid.net/services

i have removed 2 drives that seem to always fail after i have swapped the cables. but when i run the parity sync it says its only taking 30 minutes.  so how to i confirm theres no read errors before the parity sync?

Just let it run and see if there are read errors.

it just completed but it says it was successful but like I said two drives are currently unmounted. 

So Im now at 3 disks being disabled and I believe its going to be a bad HBA card. I didnt have any issues prior to upgrading to Unraid 6.12.4, could this be just a coincidence? since my parity drive was the first to be affected i know i just cant rebuild the drives, how should I proceed once I have a replacement card and what card do you recommend?

 

Parity sync is finally running with no errors and should be done in about 15 hours which is normal for me. was wondering how to recover the data on the disabled drives. can i plug them into another pc to pull the data, can it be done in windows or does it need to be on a linux machine or can unraid do that?

Edited October 1, 20232 yr by fespinoza831

Post new diags.

Here it is.  I created a new config eliminating the 3 drives that were getting disabled and they aren't currently connected to the server. the Parity sync is currently at 57% but just noticed that disk 9 is showing errors. I guess I just made my situation worse.

plexserver-diagnostics-20231002-0635.zip

Edited October 2, 20232 yr by fespinoza831

Still looks like a power/connection issue, or an issue with the LSI HBA and those disks, do you have a different controller you could use?

 

The now unassigned disks should be mountable with the UD plugin.

I dont have another LSI HBA but Im ready buy one. Which do you recommend? wierd that drive is connected to the same power cable as 2 other drive after it and to the same data cable/card as 3 other drives.

Edited October 2, 20232 yr by fespinoza831

One of these, but in this case don't recommend any LSI SAS2 models (92XX) , SAS3 are fine:

 

What price range should I be looking at?

 

does this work?

https://www.amazon.com/SVNXINGTII-SAS9300-16i-9300-16i16-Port-TrueNAS-SFF-8643/dp/B0C6QG9NPH/ref=sr_1_5?crid=2XR2XXA4P2NHU&keywords=SAS3+lsi&qid=1696276868&sprefix=sas3+lsi%2Caps%2C135&sr=8-5&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.18ed3cb5-28d5-4975-8bc7-93deae8f9840

 

https://www.ebay.com/itm/385805168557?hash=item59d3c7afad:g:gPEAAOSwszlkufmF&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwD%2F3EjAIYHESN2BDggly14Ncs%2BPCFni%2FWAKDsLgLE1bL82w%2FLkIEl2C6Unlt%2BOkITGWFZ%2FhROZU5EJXjaKNJCxXQp9qv6WvOPBUf2LQnUyv0gsAx3I9Np85vJxy%2B2cAPHAREbvOzgztXVQNGIklX9vfPP0iuTh7z0UetsmrhxjO9N05TgUuN79YSNeKraL%2FwuerYs6UBLxX20RPUvScCTbvMtsABch1OpFYviZhbQbUhkMkXe2w9vHfADN67ZoK9hA%3D%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR_rOz5_eYg

 

Edited October 2, 20232 yr by fespinoza831

First one doesn't appear to be LSI/Broadcom, 2nd one should be fine.

Just got the new card but was wondering about one of the plugs on the cables and one on the card. what are these for?