Hello!

 

Running newest version of unraid.

 

I had unraid running on an old ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard with an AMD FX 8350 with 8gb ram.

 

2 SSD cache drives 250gb each

1 parity drive 8tb

5 drives 2tb, 2tb, 2tb, 4tb and 8tb

 

I also had an old ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 with an ASUS FX 8350 with 16gb ram hooked up to a tv as a regular windows pc and just recently replace it.

 

As you can see the motherboards (tho 1 is LE version) and processors are basically the same except one had 8gb ram and the other had 16 gb ram.

 

I decided to swap out the ASUS M5A97 R2.0 motherboard with 8gb ram for the ASUS M5A97 LE R2.0 with 16gb ram. I know i could have just swapped the ram but I tried and it would still only see 8gb so I decided to just swap the motherboards so the server could have 16gb ram.

 

Now for the problem.

 

I completed the swap and when I booted into bios and also unraid it will only show 5 of the 8 drives.

 

8tb parity missing

8tb regular drive missing

2tb regular drive missing

 

I did some troubleshooting and swapped both power cable and data cable (all drives are sata) from a drive that was working and showing in both bios and unraid to a drive that wasn't showing and the drive still will not show up. I did this to all 3 drives that were not showing and they still will not show up.

 

Its seems odd that removing the drives and then popping them in the new system immediately would cause 3 drives to die. I do not know why these 3 drives will not show when hooked up to the cables that will show the working drives. I am now concerned because one of them is the parity drive.

 

I am planning to hook up the drives that were not showing up to my gaming pc (Asus tuf x570 plus - AMD 5900x – 32gb ram). The plan is to hook them up to my gaming pc and see if the bios will see the drives so at least i know the drives are still good.

 

I know the motherboard is 12 yrs old and I have no issues with buying a new motherboard, processor and ram if that what needs to be done. I am just concerned about losing the drives and data.

 

Anyone know why this may have happened? Any other ideas? Any other way to test these drives?

 

Thanks!

Edited October 31, 20241 yr by Grimbone

See if you hear the disks spinning up, if they are and still not showing up in the BIOS, try them on a different computer to confirm if they are really dead or not.

Hello,

 

Thanks for the speedy reply!

 

Ok, so I tested the three hard drives one at a time by putting them back in the old pc they were taken from and booting into the bios to see if the old machine still recognizes them. The bios did not recognize any of the three drives and I don't think they were spinning. (not 100% sure)

 

Just to make sure I went and tested a brand new drive that i have and the bios did see the brand new drive. For some reason the 3 problem drives aren't even recognized in the old PC now.

Edited November 1, 20241 yr by Grimbone

Make sure it's not the the 3.3v issue by testing with a molex to SATA adapter, if the same, it suggests the disks are dead.

I checked the 3.3v issue using a different solution by putting a piece of label tape over the third pin since I didn't have an adapter. None of the drives worked so I am pretty sure the drives are dead. I am salvaging what is left in unraid.

 

I removed the old 2 cache drives, moved the data to the array, and and replaced them with a single 1 tb drive and moved the data back over to cache. Everything looks good in the logs except for the following errors.

 

Nov  1 05:38:25 NAS-PC cache_dirs: ERROR: included directory 'bitcoin' does not exist.
Nov  1 05:38:25 NAS-PC cache_dirs: ERROR: included directory 'domains' does not exist.
Nov  1 05:38:25 NAS-PC cache_dirs: ERROR: included directory 'unRaidLars' does not exist.
Nov  1 05:38:25 NAS-PC cache_dirs: ERROR: included directory 'urBackup' does not exist.

 

Anyway to resolve these errors?

nas-pc-diagnostics-20241101-0633.zip

5 minutes ago, Grimbone said:

Anyway to resolve these errors

 

Change the settings for the Cache Dirs plugin to only include shares you still have.

Seems a reboot solved the errors.

 

I checked the logs and the errors are gone. I also checked the Cache Dirs plugin and the shares are no longer on the list.

 

I also think the original issue I opened this thread was caused by plugging in a sata power cable into my PSU that was by a different manufacture and it fried the drives.

 

Thanks everyone for the help. You guys and gals are awesome! 🙏

Edited November 1, 20241 yr by Grimbone