USB flash failure?

[fishface]

unraid has been working fine, until today.

 

Clean power down, then added a Asmedia ASM1061 2 port SATA controller as I just need a couple more ports.

 

Rebooted, ASmedia card detected in BIOS, which detected new disk, unraid came online.

Logged in, new drive is there, but notice that one of the existing drives was missing.

 

Power-off again, and sure enough, I had dislodged a power cable to the disk, re-connected.

 

Power-on again, but this time it does boot fully, it starts to boot, detects sda1, does a few more things, then I see "Buffer I/O error on dev sda1", repeated a few times, and then later "Cannot mount /dev/sda1", and "device descriptor error read/64, error -71"

 

So is my flash drive failed?

 

I have tried several USB ports, and rebooted at least 5 times, also repeated with the ASmedia un-installled, made no difference.

 

Before I made the changes I did backup the flash drive.

 

Also, when I plug the flash drive into a Windows PC, it does open it.

 

What is the best way to recover from this?

 

Thanks.

Edited October 27, 2023 by fishface

[fishface]

So, I restored from my backup, on a new flash drive, and I'm up and running, but unraid reports.
 

Unraid OS Multiple License Keys Present Purchase key.

 

The guide doesn't mention duplicate keys, and I only have one, but I did do what it suggested below.

 

Please copy the correct key file to the config directory on your USB Flash boot device

I did upgrade in August 2023 to a PlusKey, wonder if that has caused an issue?

 

I did notice that I do have a Basic.key and a Trial.key, so I removed those, as that was suggested as a solution in the forums, I rebooted, after doing that is now says "Unraid OS GUID Error"

 

I think I understand some of the issue, the backup has a Plus.key but with the old faulty flash drive, but I did copy the Plus.key to the config directory on the new flash drive, so I cannot see what I did wrong.

 

I have emailed support, so let's see what they say.

Edited October 27, 2023 by fishface

[fishface]

Support, very promptly, sent me a new key, great customer service from the unraid team.