Sorry if this has been answered before, but I couldn't find info anywhere...

 

I've got an HP ProLiant N40L with 3 WD Green 3TB disks running unRAID 5rc8. I just bought a 4th disk and want to add it to the disk array. What I did was to stop the array, turn off the server, put in the disk, start the server again and from the Main tab in the unRaid admin webpage I added the 4th disk, then checked the "yes, I want to erase the new disk and add it to the array" checkbox and pressed the start button. After that, the webpage stopped responding.

 

I can access the unMenu webpage and I can see that the new disk is being written to (if I refresh the page I can see that the number keeps increasing); I can also telnet into the server. I know that adding a new disk to the array can take a long time, but I have no clue about how much time is left since there is no progress bar indicator and syslog doesn't help because the last related entry was clearing disk3...  (Other emhttp) and that was 13 hours ago. Is there any way to check the progress and see how much time I've got left until everything is ready? How can I make sure that something didn't go wrong? Also, do I have to wait until the disk has been added to the array for the main webpage to respond again, or did something went bad?

 

Thanks for any help.

If this new disk is 3TB as well it will take a good 40-40 hours to clear depending on how busy the array is from my understanding. I recently added a couple three tb drives and ran the preclear script do that my array wouldnt be offline. But dont worry the process has to zero out all the sectors and on a big disk this process takes a lot of time.

Well, things are getting ridiculous now.

 

On November 8th I put the disk in the array and hit the "Start" button. It's been 4 days and the thing still isn't done. At this rate it's faster to backup all the disks and make a brand new unRAID install with all the disks formatted.

 

Also, the web front-end is unreachable too. I can access unMenu but not the regular unRAID webpage. I can also telnet into it.

 

Is there any way to check that everything is in working order? Thanks in advance.

Well, things are getting ridiculous now.

 

On November 8th I put the disk in the array and hit the "Start" button. It's been 4 days and the thing still isn't done. At this rate it's faster to backup all the disks and make a brand new unRAID install with all the disks formatted.

 

Also, the web front-end is unreachable too. I can access unMenu but not the regular unRAID webpage. I can also telnet into it.

 

Is there any way to check that everything is in working order? Thanks in advance.

 

First thing to do is to get the syslog file.  You can do this from unMenu.  Post the log to this thread. 

Well, things are getting ridiculous now.

 

On November 8th I put the disk in the array and hit the "Start" button. It's been 4 days and the thing still isn't done. At this rate it's faster to backup all the disks and make a brand new unRAID install with all the disks formatted.

 

Also, the web front-end is unreachable too. I can access unMenu but not the regular unRAID webpage. I can also telnet into it.

 

Is there any way to check that everything is in working order? Thanks in advance.

 

First thing to do is to get the syslog file.  You can do this from unMenu.  Post the log to this thread.

 

Thanks, but I tried to kill the webserver and start it again, only to realize that I had to start all over again. I've decided to back everything up (I hadn't put that much stuff in the server yet) and start all over again from scratch.

Thanks, but I tried to kill the webserver and start it again, only to realize that I had to start all over again. I've decided to back everything up (I hadn't put that much stuff in the server yet) and start all over again from scratch.

If you use the preclear script then the new disk can be prepared for unRAID while keeping the rest of the array and the webgui accessible.