Hi, 

 

Been a long time since I started my server and now I'm running into an issue where one of the drives is appearing as "unassigned".

 

I checked all the cables and everything is connected. 

 

Don't want to start the server and risk losing some important data. 

 

Any and all help is greatly appreciated. 

 

Cheers

Your screenshot doesn't actually show the Unassigned Devices section. Post a screenshot of that part, and

 

Attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread.

I don't get what you mean by the Unassigned Devices section. 

 

Do you mean this section.

 

I'm specifically referring to "Disk 11" as appearing unassigned. 

unraid-tower-diagnostics-20250304-1547.zip

6 minutes ago, bm83 said:

the Unassigned Devices section

That should appear after the Pool Devices section in MAIN.

 

I don't see an Unassigned Disk in your Diagnostics. Can you see the disk in BIOS?

So going into Bios is a bit iffy. It's been 7-8 years since I built the server and I'm using extra hardware to get all the drives to show up (couldn't tell you what...it has been that long). 

 

The only thing that I see on the bios side are the drives connected directly to the motherboard (so from the mobo sata).

Checked into Bios. 

 

This drive does not appear there either. 

Check connections, SATA and power, including splitters, then see if it shows up.

 

Do any of your other disks show SMART warning ( 👎 ) on the DASHBOARD page?

Nope. None of the sata/power splitter or anything else is the issue. I even changed the location of the drive to see if that would help. 

 

And none of the other drives show any smart warnings on the dashboard page. 

Start the array with the drive missing then post diagnostics

I have started the array but it is just frozen on "Mounting disks". It's trying to mount "Disk 1" but is just stuck doing that. 

 

I've uploaded the new diagnostics -- but am not sure if anything is going to change.

 

 

unraid-tower-diagnostics-20250304-2354.zip

Read errors from parity, check replace/cables for that disk and try again.

The parity drive is plugged in well. And the error is still appearing. 

post new diagnostics

Here you go. These are with the array attempting to start but being stuck mounting Disk 1.

unraid-tower-diagnostics-20250305-1013.zip

7 hours ago, JorgeB said:

Read errors from parity, check replace/cables for that disk and try again.

 

"Read errors from parity, check replace/cables for that disk and try again"

I don't follow what you mean by that. 

There are read errors with the parity disk, check/replace its cables, and post new diags after array start.

Yup I guess that cable went bad. 

 

Posting new diagnostic now.

unraid-tower-diagnostics-20250305-1026.zip

Now you are having read errors on disk5.

How are these large number of disks powered? Any splitters? More than 4 disks per PSU cable?

What can I do about that?

No not really.

 

I had the server running fine for around 6 years. 

 

Then for the past 1.5 years it was just sitting unused (moving houses) --  

and now this.

Not clear what you are replying to.

 

You can quote an entire post by selecting "Quote" below the post, like this:

4 minutes ago, bm83 said:

What can I do about that?

 

Or, you can quote specific parts of a post by selecting the text and clicking "Quote selection" from the popup that appears, like this:

4 minutes ago, bm83 said:

for the past 1.5 years it was just sitting unused (moving houses)

 

13 minutes ago, trurl said:

Now you are having read errors on disk5.

7 minutes ago, bm83 said:

What can I do about that?

23 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

check/replace its cables, and post new diags after array start.

 

 

 

Alright I think I'm getting this...a bit. 

 

Now I have Disk 5 operational but disk 13 is acting up. 

 

Going to change some cables for that.