[6.12.8] Parity drive won't start, no error

[Juliian]

Hello,

My array was fine this morning and I came back tonight and the parity drive now shows as stopped:

 

 

Trying to spin it up doesn't do anything (the icon remains as is). The server logs only show this:

 

Feb 21 18:52:15 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sda
Feb 21 18:52:22 Tower emhttpd: spinning up /dev/sda
Feb 21 18:52:29 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sda
Feb 21 19:12:33 Tower emhttpd: spinning down /dev/sda
Feb 21 19:12:35 Tower emhttpd: spinning up /dev/sda
Feb 21 19:12:39 Tower emhttpd: read SMART /dev/sda

 

I am attaching a diagnostic files as well as a SMART test for the drive.

 

tower-diagnostics-20240221-1915.zip

tower-smart-20240221-1839.zip

 

I tried to reboot, but with no luck. I am fairly Unraid noob, please excuse me if this is a dumb problem or if I am missing obvious things I am supposed to provide for you to help.

 

Thank you,
Julian

 

[JorgeB]

Parity was already disabled at boot so we can't see what happened, SMART looks OK so you can re-sync, it may also be a good idea to check/replace cables before doing it to rule it out, then:

 

https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/manual/storage-management#rebuilding-a-drive-onto-itself

 

 

[Juliian]

Thanks a lot, my array is now rebuilding its parity drive, and you taugh me that restarting the array makes the lot disappear. Much appreciated.

I'll likely investigate how to persist these logs to a cache at some point.

Edited February 21 by Juliian

[JonathanM]

5 hours ago, Juliian said:

I'll likely investigate how to persist these logs to a cache at some point.

syslog server

[Juliian]

4 hours ago, JonathanM said:

syslog server

Thank you sir! Syslog server now configured, I'll know more next time if it happens again.