Hello,

 

adding a new Drive freezes my System.

If I stop the Array, then select the new Drive, then select Yes I want to do this / Start

The System instantly freezes.

After a reboot the new Disks are gone and I can repeat it.....

 

Any Idea?

To help you, we need to see your syslog, a syslog that covers the period when this occurred.  Please see my sig for the Troubleshooting link, for help with capturing a syslog.  It also would be useful to obtain a SMART report for the problem drive(s).

Hello,

 

adding a new Drive freezes my System.

If I stop the Array, then select the new Drive, then select Yes I want to do this / Start

The System instantly freezes.

After a reboot the new Disks are gone and I can repeat it.....

 

Any Idea?

If the drive had not been pre-cleared, the behavior you are describing is expected as unrAID clears the newly added drive.  That process writes zeros to the entire drive, typically between 100MB/s and 75MB/s.  At the higher rate, that is 10 seconds per GB, or 20,000 seconds for a 2TB drive.  (5.55 hours)

 

During those 5.55 hours your server will not be online.    (It is why pre-clearing is highly suggested, as the down-time is typically only a few minutes)

Yepp, that was the solution.

 

The Progess is only shown lin the bottom left corner.

 

This was out of the Screen im my case.

 

I'm using a wall mounted tft for my servers. According to the distance to the Monitor I have changed the Font Size, this has caused the problem.

 

regards

 

Matthias