As the title states, the drives in my DAS didn't appear upon booting my server, because I failed to plug in the external cables correctly. I shutdown my server and the das, fully seated the cables and rebooted. All of my DAS drives show up now and short SMART tests of my two parity drives and disk 16 was completed without issues. These three drives are a part of my DAS along with the 4 12TB unassigned drives. The question I have is, should I proceed with caution still and start my array in maintenance mode to perform further checks? If so, what would those be?

I'm due for a quarterly parity check that I've postponed for a week due to swapping hardware in the server.

tower-syslog-20260111-0258.zip tower-diagnostics-20260110-2058.zip

Edited January 11Jan 11 by chris206

Start in normal mode and post new diagnostics.

7 minutes ago, trurl said:

Start in normal mode and post new diagnostics.

Done.

tower-diagnostics-20260110-2152.zip

That looks good. Go ahead with parity check

1 hour ago, trurl said:

That looks good. Go ahead with parity check

Will do. It's scheduled to start tomorrow and is set up to increment, so I'll report back in a few days with results.

Parity check finished without errors. Everything's all good it seems.