February 10, 201313 yr after getting a parity check everytime I restarted my 2nd tower, disk 5 was earmarked as failed. I thought it best to do a party check my 1st tower which had been running ok, but disk 7 came up red balled. I had few spares but went & got another so that I had 4 in total (2wd red). tower 2 had room to add drives with an empty 4-3 cooler master drive bay. I pull all the leads from the m/b & power leads except to the top 8 drives. added 2 more 2tb (wd red to replace parity at some point). hooked after arranging hard drives the way I wanted. I had issues as a couple of drives not in correct location I could not swapp locations of existing disks, I could add new of all drive not in correct locations, I had to trial & error to get right drives in correct location from onboard sata connections until I got it down to 2 drives, disk 4 & 7. I read some forums & saw something about a correct tab (which I don't have). I backed up both usb to my pc but t2 I could not copy secrets.tdb. I notice that t1 had a few more files so I replaced these onto the t2 usb. I could finally put the hdd in the correct locations. parity check proved that dsk 5 was ok. but tower 1 I was able to swap the fault disk with another in the box, did a parity check but now disk 3 is red balled. I needed to rearrange & remove 1st faulty disk. I removed my 5 way icy dock & 4-3 cooler master. I made another 5 way & figured out the I could get both 5 ways into 5 bays (alum stip screwed to disk & a top or bottom plate). rewired but on 1st reboot 8 way sata card was not found & there was a clicking noise. try several things then discovered a power cable pin not in molex properly fixed. but even with 2 new spare hdd attached disk 3 & 4 are red balled, disk 4 (Sea rebuilt) was only showing 5mb instead of 1.5tb. I cant start the array because disk3 is the original red balled & I need to attach a newer disk4 because disk 4 is cactus. I can get a blue dot for disk 3 if I put a new disk to it. But I cant start the array I conclude that I will probably lose some data from disk 4 but even with correct disk 3. I can either have 2 red dots or a blue & a red but neither will let me start the array can any body help me get it going again. My systems are both are 4.7 pro, i3 '1156' asus p7h55 m with 4 gb of ram & each has a Supermicro Aoc saslp-mv8 cards. tower 1 has 5 x 2tb, 8 x 1.5tb hdd, added 2 port astrotek pcie x1 card tower 2 has 14 x 2tb, skymaster 2x pcie x1 card.
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