Hi guys, I had a few hardware failures and have managed to get the machine working again although it still wouldn't boot into UNRAID. I took a backup of the config drive then downloaded UNRAID and installed again to the flash drive then overwrite the config directoty with the backup I had. UNRAID now boots but shows all three drives as unassigned?

 

I had a look at the files in the config directory and they don't look right to me. The disk.cfg is blank (has a line of spaces) and the super.dat also is blank (has a page of spaces), this is from opening the files in notepad to inspect their contents.

 

Not too sure what I should do from here, I presume at least I need a new flash drive but how do I go about getting the data array active again without losing the data on them?

 

Thanks heaps in advance.

 

If I should dump log files or anything let me know.

 

Scott.

If your config and super.dat files are blank, then either they were corrupted before you copied them or they weren't copied properly. If you had a valid configuration, then it should be reflected in those files.

 

Unless you have another copy of those (and other configuration files), then you're essentially starting over. But that doesn't mean your data is lost or anything. I think you can just assign your drives and tell it to trust your array. You don't need to rebuild parity or anything. You just have to be absolutely sure to assign the parity drive correctly. The data drives can be shuffled around, but not the parity drive.

Mint tried that and I could tell which was parity as it was bigger so looks good. It started a parity check and now I am getting errors with a drive so looks like a filed hdd too. fun. I started the array anyway and all data is there so just need a replacements drive and a rebuild and I should be sorted. Thanks for the info. I was scared for a minute!

Are you just getting errors from the parity check? That doesn't necessarily mean a drive has gone bad. Post your syslog after the parity check is done, and better minds than mine can sort through it.