Hey All,

 

After being forced into some drive upgrades and repairs over the last few days I have been reading quite a bit and some things I have read and experienced with my own situation have me confused.

 

1. In reading about pending sectors or re-enabling a drive. It has been posted over and over to stop array, un-assign drive etc start array - well on my test bed with 5.04. If I stop the array, unassign the drive ( or choose no device I have no unassign choice) I cannot restart the array there is no check box or radio button and no way to start UNless I re-assign the same or a new drive which will then allow me to start the array. So it will not let me start the array without a drive assigned, unless I am doing something wrong.

 

2. In another posters situation - replacing a parity drive and near the end of the SYNC, webGUI was not coming up after waiting for the completion of the sync a reboot was performed to get the Gui back and the system was saying that no parity checks have been done he was told to start the check again. In my situation I installed my new parity drive and parity sync did complete and I was still able to access the Gui - all lights are green but upon finishing the sync the display still stated no parity checks were performed. I am confused, is a sync and a check the same.

 

I cannot wait to dump all these green WD drives, In doing that parity sync I developed 1 pending sector on a data drive with no errors previously. This little problem is turning into a balloon effect. Just for comps I check all the drives in my 2nd data only server last night, 24-7 on no spin down 750GB or smaller drives and not one smart error on any of them, all the standard items for all those disks are 0.

 

Thanks,

 

Dave

1.  Not sure what you are doing wrong, hopefully someone else can comment.  You are correct though in that you select "no device". There is no "unassign" option.

 

2. No, a parity sync and a parity check are not the same thing. A parity sync "builds" parity for the array. A parity check simply checks that the existing parity is correct. To run a parity check, select that option from the bottom of the main WebGUI page.

Is there a parity drive?  If not then you will not be able to start the array with a drive missing.

Did the main page say parity was valid on it when the array was started? The array also can't be started in a degraded state if the parity is not valid.

Thanks Guys,

 

to the first question, Yes I was trying this on my test bed machine so that makes perfect since, I replaced another drive in my main machine last night and I checked and it works fine, having the parity drive and have being valid never came to mind.

 

I assumed that the sync and check was different made sense that way to me but the threads I was reading were confusing to me they were talking sync and check in the same syntax which is what threw me for a loop.

 

rgds,

 

Dave