November 7, 20232 yr Author Occasionally when I start the computer it starts spinning up, and then just powers down, and restarts. I'm making a wild guess that it's a power / short issue.
November 9, 20232 yr Author I transplanted all the internals to a new case with a new modular PSU, and now I'm missing disk 5. I had a spare unassigned device in a another port that wasn't in the array, so I tried to plug disk 5 into that SATA cable and power cable, but it's still not reading it. Is there anything else I should try to do to see if it'll come back, or I'm I just hosed at this point and need to start over?
November 9, 20232 yr Community Expert Connect the disk to a known good onboard SATA port then see if it spins up and it's detected in the board BIOS, if still not, there's not much else you can do.
November 9, 20232 yr Author Well I originally just tried a different port on the mini-sas, and it didn't work, but then re-read, and tried plugging into a SATA port on the mobo, and still no go.
November 10, 20232 yr Author I don't know where to look for it in the bios. It's an old GA-Z97N-WIFI/GA-H97N-WIFI/GA-H97N mobo. Edited November 10, 20232 yr by openam Finish scentence
November 10, 20232 yr Author I see this over simplified bios screen. Seems like there used to be a much more standard looking bios screen. I'll play around a little more. I'm currently running a pre-clear on that renewed 8TB drive it's 56% through zeroing right now.
November 13, 20232 yr Author The pre-clear has finished, and I was able to find the classic bios mode. Disk 5 is not recognizable by the bios. I found where it showed the disks in the bios, unplugged all the disks and connected disk 5 to P4 on the motherboard. When I booted it back up it didn't see anything except the USB device. What's the best way to save most of the remaining data? I'm half tempted make the assumption that all the disks are fine except disk 5, and say just rebuild disk 5. Does that seem like a crazy solution? Is that even possible? preclear_disk_2EJABBEX_15770.txt
November 13, 20232 yr Community Expert 8 hours ago, openam said: and say just rebuild disk 5. Does that seem like a crazy solution? Is that even possible? I assume disk3 is still disabled, how long as disk3 been disabled? Also post new diags.
November 13, 20232 yr Author Yes disk 3 is still showing as disabled. Disk 3 became disabled on November 7th, earlier in this thread. I haven't really had the array started much since then. palazzo-diagnostics-20231113-0816.zip
November 13, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution You can try to force enable disk3 to see if disk5 can be emulated, but this will only work if parity is still valid: -Tools -> New Config -> Retain current configuration: All -> Apply -Check all assignments and assign any missing disk(s) if needed, including the new disk5, replacement disk should be same size or larger than the old one -IMPORTANT - Check both "parity is already valid" and "maintenance mode" and start the array (note that the GUI will still show that data on parity disk(s) will be overwritten, this is normal as it doesn't account for the checkbox, but it won't be as long as it's checked) -Stop array -Unassign disk5 -Start array (in normal mode now), and post new diags.
November 13, 20232 yr Author Followed the steps and attaching the new diagnostics palazzo-diagnostics-20231113-1000.zip
November 13, 20232 yr Community Expert Emulated disk5 mounted, if contents look correct you can rebuild, stop array, assign new disk5, start array to begin rebuild.
November 13, 20232 yr Author Everything looked good on emulated disk5, rebuild has started, says about 13hrs to complete!
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