January 4, 201313 yr I am running unraid server 4.7 for over a year with no problems. Problem just started and now see issue when i plugged monitor in (usually just use Putty but it wouldn't connect). The attached pic shows the issue and when looking for problem in forums it appears to be hardware. I just don't know how to go any further with debugging since it locks up with this screen after i get to the Root Login prompt. This is what my GO file looks like #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & /boot/unmenu/uucd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' - type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c To check some hardware on the machine, I booted ubuntu off another cruiser drive and all looked fine. I could see the 7 hard drives, browse net and all looked good. Here are main components to machine. MB: Asus A8N-SLI Premium Sandisk Cruzer Blade 4 GIG Ram 2(DataCage Classic MB455SPF-B 5x3.5" in 3x5.25" Hot Swap HDD Cage) with 7 drives plugged in. 2-Rosewill RC-218 PCI Express SATA II Controller Card w/ 4 internal SATA with 2 external eSATA Design I appreciate any help. P.S. I barely know Linux/Unix
January 5, 201313 yr I would start by running memtest for a night to rule out any memory errors. The error mentions scsi, as well as "ata_softreset" and "nv_hardreset", so it is getting a kernel panic when its interacting with the discs. I see your MB has 8 onboard ports, and you also have two expansion cards giving you another 8 internal and 4 e-sata ports. Where are the discs plugged into? Also seeing the icydocks. As much of a pain as it sounds, I would move some stuff around, it could be an issue with one of the backplanes going bad, a bad cable, or something funky with the ports you are using. If your currently using the onboard ports, try switching to the expansion cards, or vice versa. If the drives are plugged into the icydocks, try moving some from the partially filled icydock to a direct connection with sata(how a normal pc would be built). If that doesn't solve the panic, try moving the drives from the other icydock to the (now) empty one. You are correct in your search that it is most likely a hardware fault. I have seen on other forums where users get a MCE(machine check exception) when booting into certain flavors of linux and not when using others. Have also seen where a live disk works fine but a full install does not.
January 7, 201313 yr Author OCZ850GXSSLI OCZ Model:OCZ850GXSSLISeries ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V Maximum Power 850Watts Fans 120mm Fan I have 9 drives connected
January 7, 201313 yr Author The mem test was fine (ran for 2 days). Here is what i just did. Let me know if i am totally confused If I have 9 drives in the system but only have seen data appear on 2 physical drives, can i disconnect those other drives to at least get to the data (i did)? The system now booted ok and it is staying fine at the root. Browser won't see the system by my mapped drive to the flash drive is working (i can see all files on flash) I can also telnet in via putty and here is that shot. Tower login: root Password: Linux 2.6.32.9-unRAID. root@Tower:~# ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:d4:d1:c2:5f inet addr:192.168.1.13 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1534 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:720 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:297030 (290.0 KiB) TX bytes:163506 (159.6 KiB) Interrupt:17 What other test should i run? Do you think my PSU is faulty?
January 7, 201313 yr Author I should have waited before that post. See picture attached. It's up but not running the array due to missing drives.
January 7, 201313 yr 4 drives missing at one time typically points to a common hardware failure. (power cable, splitter, disk controller, backplane, power-supply, etc) Look there for resolution. Power Down, then re-seat all connections to the backplanes, drive trays, power supply, then reboot.
January 7, 201313 yr Author I took the 3 drives i had in the 2nd icydock and connected them direct to power/sata cables. System is working now. Looks like a bad ICYDock. See attached for what is going on now (parity check). What is the best way for me to shrink my system for now to use only 5 drives in 1 Dock and 1 single IDE drive? Right now I think i have close to 4 Terrabyte of storage capacity but am not even close to using it (for now). I'd be more then willing to run a webex so someone can jump around the system for suggestions.
January 8, 201313 yr So your wanting to remove one (empty) drive from the array for now? If so, do this: Run a parity check to ensure everything is well Take a screenshot of your disk configuration (main screen, which disk is in which spot)....Running a 5Beta build this is only necessary to know which disk is parity. Stop the array Unassign the disk you want to remove Powerdown Remove the drive Power back up, a disk will show as missing, make sure this is the disk you want! Stop the array if its running Go to Utils page Click "New Configuration" This will invalidate parity and cause parity to rebuild. Your other disks will be unprotected during this. Its a good idea to run a parity check after it rebuilds. If the disk you want to remove is not empty, first move the data off of that disk and then do as above.
January 8, 201313 yr Author So your wanting to remove one (empty) drive from the array for now? i actually want to do this with 3 drives If so, do this: Run a parity check to ensure everything is well Take a screenshot of your disk configuration (main screen, which disk is in which spot)this is the part that confuses me. I have my screen shot of drives. How do I know which physical drive is disk 1,2,3 etc.? I know for a fact that it doesn't go in order of the drive bay and since I have multiple drives of identical type, how do you easily tell which is what?....Running a 5Beta build this is only necessary to know which disk is parity. Stop the array Unassign the disk you want to remove Powerdown Remove the drive Power back up, a disk will show as missing, make sure this is the disk you want! Stop the array if its running Go to Utils page Click "New Configuration" This will invalidate parity and cause parity to rebuild. Your other disks will be unprotected during this. Its a good idea to run a parity check after it rebuilds. i already used mc to move all data from all the drives onto disk 1. This part confuses me. After all gets rebuilt, is the data striped across all the drives like a normal raid array or is the data on disk 1 only on the parity also? I know I never put data physically on individual disks and that the system spread it out with the shares I have. If the disk you want to remove is not empty, first move the data off of that disk and then do as above.
January 8, 201313 yr So your wanting to remove one (empty) drive from the array for now? i actually want to do this with 3 drives If so, do this: Run a parity check to ensure everything is well Take a screenshot of your disk configuration (main screen, which disk is in which spot)this is the part that confuses me. I have my screen shot of drives. How do I know which physical drive is disk 1,2,3 etc.? I know for a fact that it doesn't go in order of the drive bay and since I have multiple drives of identical type, how do you easily tell which is what?....Running a 5Beta build this is only necessary to know which disk is parity. Compare the serial number labeled on the disk and the serial number appearing on the main screen Stop the array Unassign the disk you want to remove Powerdown Remove the drive Power back up, a disk will show as missing, make sure this is the disk you want! Stop the array if its running Go to Utils page Click "New Configuration" This will invalidate parity and cause parity to rebuild. Your other disks will be unprotected during this. Its a good idea to run a parity check after it rebuilds. i already used mc to move all data from all the drives onto disk 1. This part confuses me. After all gets rebuilt, is the data striped across all the drives like a normal raid array or is the data on disk 1 only on the parity also? I know I never put data physically on individual disks and that the system spread it out with the shares I have. unRAID does not stripe. The data disks hold data and the parity disk contains only parity bits. If the disk you want to remove is not empty, first move the data off of that disk and then do as above.
January 9, 201313 yr OCZ850GXSSLI OCZ Model:OCZ850GXSSLISeries ATX12V v2.2 and EPS12V Maximum Power 850Watts Fans 120mm Fan I have 9 drives connected This PSU is not appropriate for an unRAID server. It provides a maximum of 20 Amps for HDDs. It has 4 12V rails which is 3 too many. See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12219.0
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