Had this issue from time to time, but have never found a solution.  While upgrading a data drive to a larger drive, another drive or more suddenly start throwing read errors, probably a cable issue. How can you force Unraid to mark the drives throwing errors as active again. It's now in a state where the drive to be upgraded is marked emulated, but the drive throwing errors is marked as new, and now it says too many wrong or missing disks.  Reading and reading, this kind of thing seems to happen a lot, but there don't seem to be any solutions... If I could simply mark the "new" drive as active again, I could do a rebuild. Is there a utility or some way of forcing Unraid to reactivate the drive? Can I replace the upgrade drive with the old one and somehow make Unraid think the config is valid so I can then rebuild parity or just make it think everything is back to what is was before the attempted upgrade?

Thanks for any help!

Norm

 

Please post the diagnostics.
 

Not sure how that will help, but will attach.  I'm was actually upgrading two drives, since i have two parity drives, I stated just one before since the situation would be the same. Currently I have replaced the upgrade drives with the originals, so the drives are all the same from before the attempted upgrade. If I could do a new config or mark the drives as active again, I assume I could just rebuild parity from the array, since nothing should have changed with the array drives.

Thanks, Norm

 

littleboy-diagnostics-20240926-1009.zip

20 minutes ago, indy66 said:

Not sure how that will help

It doesn't help much because it's a after a reboot, but it still helps a little, next time save the diags before rebooting.

 

21 minutes ago, indy66 said:

Currently I have replaced the upgrade drives with the originals, so the drives are all the same from before the attempted upgrade. If I could do a new config or mark the drives as active again,

Not sure I follow, the currently assigned disks 7 and 10 are the old ones? They are not showing as wrong.

Yes, 7 and 10 are now back to the original 10TB drives, was trying to upgrade them to 18TB drives. Disk 9 is a 14TB that started throwing read errors shortly after the rebuild started. One suggestion was to create a new config, which is when disk 9 showed up as new.  It was strange too because initially Unraid marked it disabled and emulated which gave me three drives in an emulated state, which shouldn't be possible with just two parity drives. After trying a new config, disk 9 when to new and Unraid said it then had too many wrong or missing disks. The data on the disks should still be valid, so if I could somehow get Unraid to accept the current configuration, I would think that I could rebuild parity based on the array disks. Attached are screen shots of the array before the upgrade, and the current state.

 

 

13 hours ago, indy66 said:

One suggestion was to create a new config, which is when disk 9 showed up as new. 

Ahh, so you have already done a new config? Some info is missing, since if you are using the old disks 7 and 10 they should show as wrong, not as invalid, but showing as invalid also suggests that you started rebuilding them and then canceled/aborted, it's important to know what exactly happened, or the advice can be wrong.

I started by replacing disks 7 and 10 with 18TB drives.  Started the rebuild, but shortly after saw errors on disk 9.  I stopped the rebuild and shut the system down, re-seated cables and brought the system back up.  At that point Unraid marked disk 9 as disabled and emulated and I started looking for solutions.  One was the new config - once I did that Unraid marked drive 9 as new and I was again stuck looking for solutions, since I couldn't find any I decided to post.  I also at that point replaced 7 and 10 with the original disks, hoping Unraid would be happy with them and let me do a rebuild on 9, even though nothing should have changed there.  I don't know that anything on the drives has actually changed, I never did any writes to the array, so I am hoping I can somehow tell Unraid the 3 drives are good and just rebuild parity again.

54 minutes ago, indy66 said:

One was the new config - once I did that Unraid marked drive 9 as new

That would not happen after a new config, something is missing, all disk would be new, not just disk9.

 

54 minutes ago, indy66 said:

that point replaced 7 and 10 with the original disks,

That also doesn't explain the invalid disks, they should show wrong, I'm sorry, but without the correct info I'm not sure what to suggest, but if you thing all the drives are good, you can just do a new config and re-sync parity.

Did a new config and all drives show up as new. Started the array and it's rebuilding parity. I'll report back when it's complete, probably 3 days...

 

Are all data disks mounting? You can also post new diags.

The rebuild finished, and so far everything looks ok, but I haven't had much time to take a good look.  For some reason, I'm not getting the status email I used to twice a day, don't know what would have changed there.  I tried the test button, but nothing came through, something else to look at...