Hello all,

 

I have a main array of 30*3tb drives running, 2 drives failed within one month and i have ordered 5*12tb as replacement and spares.

As if i'm being punished, one other drive is now labled as disabled (Smart is good). Can i force unraid to re-enable the drive without reconstructing the contents and just remount the drive? (There have been no write actions to the disk since this problem)

 

If not i cant reconstruct the 2 actualy defecitve drives

 

Greetings,

Please post the diagnostics.

Excuse me, i have attached them.

 

I'm talking about disk 26 in the main array that needs to be enabled. Ignore the unmounted disks (i was checking if they worked)

bigboy-diagnostics-20240104-1224.zip

Disk24 is just missing, not disabled, is that one of the failed disks? And is it really dead? I can post instructions to force enable disk26, but it will only work if parity is still valid.

Disk 24 is dead i just entered it as unasigned because it was comlaining at the last reboot. Parity should be okay. it was running fine till this morning when i wanted to reboot the system

-Tools -> New Config -> Retain current configuration: All -> Apply
-Check all assignments and assign any missing disk(s) if needed, including old disk26 and the new disks 17 and 24, replacement disks 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 disks 17 and 24
-Start array (in normal mode now) and post new diags

Interesting, when i follow the first step it doesnt seem to respond when i press apply

 

 

If i check the inspection tool it shows me this:

 

 

When i first pressed apply it gives me the "update.htm" then i waited for 2min, pressed again. Showed me a new update.htm and canceled the first request

 

Edit:

 

If i wait it out it gives a 504 after 3min

Edited January 4, 20242 yr by Lexvdpoel
Added extra info

Try booting in safe mode or using a different browser, don't remember that ever being a problem before.

Wanted to thank you, just completed replacing the faulty drives (yes now i have spares) and saved my data, now running a main array of 100TB+, a NVMe cache of 12TB and some other pools. Very happy with unraid 😃 (now hoping the drive limit of 30 on the main array will expand in the near future)

Edited January 14, 20242 yr by Lexvdpoel
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