Good morning all,

 

I'm running the latest 5.0-rc8a, with two 2TB WD Green data drives, 1 2TB WD Green parity drive, and one 500GB Maxtor cache drive.

 

I noticed yesterday that my second data drive was unassigned, and in unMENU was showing as DISK_INVALID.

 

Shut the server down, checked cables, rebooted, the disk was there, but had a yellow dot next to it.

 

Tried rebuilding it, was taking forever (300kb/sec), cancelled it.

 

At this point, my parity drive showed as unassigned! Rebooted, the drive is assigned but with a blue dot (new drive).

 

I'm not sure where to go from here- I fear that I now have a lost second data drive with an invalid parity drive that I can't use to rebuild from.

 

I have the option of starting the array and parity-syncing, but I fear what would happen if I did this.

 

I'll be heading out today to pick up a new 2TB disk. I'm thinking of dd'ing the second data disk to this new drive as a backup in case the worst happens.

 

So to recap, I currently have my second data drive with a yellow dot and my parity drive with a blue dot, array is not started.

 

I welcome your advice.

 

Dave

Attach a syslog.

Apologies for missing that. Here it is...

log.txt

Here's a screenshot of how things look...

Attach a new syslog that shows more. Attach SMART reports.

Not a lot more to find in the log...

log.txt

The SMART reports...

sda.txt

sdc.txt

sdd.txt

sde.txt

Little update- I've taken the 2nd data drive and connected it to an Ubuntu PC, and was able to mount it and see the contents, all of which seem to be intact.

 

I have a brand new drive, not sure of the order of things I should take... The drive is currently unformatted.

 

Should I:

 

1- leave the data drive disconnected, connect the new drive and pre-clear it, assign it to the array, then return the data drive and copy it over?

2- copy the data via dd after pre-clearing the new drive and assigning it to the array?

 

Thanks for the advice!

OK, I need help here-

 

I've copied over the data from my 2nd data drive to USB drive, data is safe.

 

Both the 2nd data disk and the parity disk are yellow, and show as DISK_INVALID under unMENU. I've run SMART reports on the data drive it seems fine, only the filesystem is corrupt.

 

I try and format the drive from the main menu, but nothing happens. If I pop in a fresh disk it says "Invalid expansion" and won't accept it.

 

I can't format, can't add a disk, can't remove the parity drive, what CAN I do here???

Log...

log.txt

log.txt

Array...

Any kind of help, please?

 

I would truly appreciate suggestions.