Need help with a parity drive that no longer is seen in old server or new server I moved my unraid setup to

[johnny.ink]

Hello everyone - some background.

 

I have an unRAID server now for about 10 years, and it has grown to the point where I wanted to get into a new enclosure and go dual parity drive.  I had 1 disk drive get disabled about 1 month ago but my 10 GB parity drive covered it and I limped along until I could get everything I needed to build a new server.

 

So I bought the new Fractal Design Meshify 2 XL case, 2 Exo's 18 GB drives to add as dual parity, and an ASUS mainboard B650M-A AX II with CPU and RAM, the whole smear.

I brought up the mainboard and CPU and RAM first in the case - testing the 750w Corsair PSU (tested with PS tested) and ran MemTest+ for about 1 week with no issues.

I shut down my unRAID server via console, and the parity drive was fine as shown in Fig 1.  The 5 TB WD drive was disabled, but I was able to test it via Hard Drive Sentinel-  as I took the drives out and installed them into caddies, etc. - doing an Extended self-test which is non-data destructive per their FAQ.  This drive came back clean (this bit of info could be important).

Now I have a new case, with mainboard RAM and CPU and this has all been tested. I move all drives that are active in unRAID over along with the 2 18 TB drives and the HBA card.  Boot it up and I see 8 hard drives (should see 9 with the 2 new 18's), but notice I do not see 1 of the 3 10 TB drives.  I get unRAID working with UEFI and do not start the array but boot it up and see parity drive is the one missing. I shut down the server, find that drive (labeled all drives as part of the project with a labeler I bought)

I now start testing this drive in the HBA card, in different ports on the mainboard, and I never see this drive.  Hell, I even got the old server up and plugged it into this mainboard which it was seen and worked on just yesterday morning, and still don't see it in the BIOS.  Now this is where I am confused, I plug it into my USB doc, and can see it fine in Hard Drive sentinel and SMART status says it is fine (figure 2).

 

I obviously can not start my array with 1 missing drive and a missing parity and have a happy ending.  But can Disk 5 be brought back up and tell the array it is happy and make 1 of the new 18's a parity disk or will unRAID not even allow me to bring up the variety without parity?

Is there a way to get this array up and not lose data and end up with the dual parity?  Any help is appreciated as I am at my wits end, I assumed the drive would be seen in the old mainboard and even if I had to plug all the drives in on that old system, and do the parity swap, just do that and then plug the drives in.

 

Please help ❤️

[johnny.ink]

and just some extra info this is a HD shucked from an inclosure a couple years back, so I don't know if the hard drive could be "asleep" and need to be woken back up which would explain why I can see it in hard drive sentinal but not BIOS hopefully.

[itimpi]

Since this is a shucked drive it could be affected by the SATA 3.3v issue (google for details) and fixes.   This might explain why it is seen when connected some ways and not others.  If so then powering it via a molex connector (if possible) might help as that does not supply 3.3v.

[johnny.ink]

6 hours ago, itimpi said:

Since this is a shucked drive it could be affected by the SATA 3.3v issue (google for details) and fixes.   This might explain why it is seen when connected some ways and not others.  If so then powering it via a molex connector (if possible) might help as that does not supply 3.3v.

Thank you so much Itimpi!  That was the solution, I obviously forgot about the whole shucked HD needed special power.  Thank you!  I was going through horror stories in my head about losing all the data and other bullshit, so many thanks!  Now to do the parity swap, or since I am doing dual parity, is it easier to just add 1 18 GB HD as second parity drive and then when that is done, go and swap 10 GB parity for 18?