May 17, 201214 yr Hi, I have recently setup up my first unraid server. I use it mainly as a media streamer and for apps like sabnzbd and sickbeard. It is a hp microserver with 5 x Seagate 2TB drives that I ripped out of external HDD cases as I got them really cheap. I have so far filled up half of the first drive. I haven't added the parity drive in yet, ( I know!! ) I was planning to do it when my download list was finished ( would have been in a couple of days ). I think the drive that had all the data on it has died. I was getting a tonne of errors on sabnzbd and also on unraid main. I am well aware if it is dead I was just have to restart over, as it's my fault for not adding in the parity drive yet. I just want to see if I can save the stuff on the drive, and if the drive is actually dead. When I use this command " dmesg|grep SATA|grep link " it says that "Sata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) When I enter //tower:8080 which is my unmenu address, I get : " ERROR:TOO_MANY_MISSING_DISKS, unRAID ARRAY is STOPPED 5 disks in array. " and on the array disk status it says for /dev/md1 " DISK_NP_MISSING ". On the unRAID menu tab in unmenu it tells me that disk 1 is "missing" and it does not appear on the disk identification tab you choose to allocate a drive to parity or cache or disk1 etc. Does anyone know if there is a possible fix or a better way I can check / diagnose the hdd. Is there a reason why the HDD is doing this or did I just get unlucky. I will be monitoring this thread heavily. If you need more information I'm happy to supply it. I am hoping I do not have to preclear a new drive and start over but am thinking it's my only option. Thanks guys.
May 17, 201214 yr Author Well it was working and I have not touched the server since it started, so I doubt there are any loose connections. WHat's the easiest way to see if the hdd has power, I cannot see any LED's or anything.
May 17, 201214 yr Well it was working and I have not touched the server since it started, so I doubt there are any loose connections. WHat's the easiest way to see if the hdd has power, I cannot see any LED's or anything. Can you see it when you enter the BIOS of the microserver?
May 17, 201214 yr Author Not sure I can't remember how to get into the bios for some reaosn the option isn't coming up on restart on I'm missing it .... When it goes to autodetect AHCI port 0 on startup it hangs for ages. It also says on startup on the console that softreset failed, qc timeout, failed to identify ( I/O error, err mask =0x4 ) and drops the Gb/s speed to 1.5 instead of 3.0?
May 17, 201214 yr Do you have a keyboard and monitor attached? F10 will get you in the BIOS I think. Sounds bad this hanging in AHCI detection. Might be a bad disk or faulty cable or not properly seated. It doesn't show any error messages? Can you hook up the drive to another PC?
May 17, 201214 yr Author I've tried hooking up the drive to my main pc but it doesn't show. I wasn't sure if this was because it is faulty or if it is because the drive is formatted to the unRAID type file system? Should windows recognise it by just plugging it into a sata port and powering it up?
May 17, 201214 yr I've tried hooking up the drive to my main pc but it doesn't show. I wasn't sure if this was because it is faulty or if it is because the drive is formatted to the unRAID type file system? Should windows recognize it by just plugging it into a sata port and powering it up? no, windows will not recognize the file-system unless you install a driver that can read reiserfs file system. Windows will see the drive in its BIOS. You'll probably need to go into the disk-manager on windows to see it otherwise... just be careful, do not format it or partition it in windows. If you do, unRAID will not be able to recognize it.
May 17, 201214 yr Atleast Windows 7 disk manager can see the disk and if you try to change it you get a notification that the disk has been formated by some other OS.
May 17, 201214 yr Author so even if windows can see it but can't read it does that even matter? If the unRAID server is getting errors and can't read the HDD am I wasting my time trying to recover my media or should I just start preclearing a new drive and start again? ( This time I'll set the parity from the start )
May 18, 201214 yr Author Step 2 for installing a reiserfs driver is: Merge rfsdfsd.reg into the registry How do I do this?
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