kinktao Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 So I added a new hard drive (powered down, assigned it, started the array, and waited for it to install the new drive) and now all my drives say unformatted? Did I do something wrong or should I hit the format button (I've attached a picture below)? Kind of scared of losing all my data. Thanks for any help. Link to comment
trurl Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Which of these is the new drive? Definitely do NOT hit the format button if any of those drives have data on them. Are you sure you haven't left anything out in your description of what you did? Post a syslog Link to comment
SSD Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Do not hit format. You will loose all of the data on your array. Did you preclear the drive before adding it? Stop the array, take a syslog, post it. You are using a very old version of unRAID with known defects. Suggest that you upgrade after this issue is resolved, to 5.0.5. Link to comment
kinktao Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 Here is my syslog. My new drive is the last drive, drive 7. syslog.txt Link to comment
SSD Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 I would do a power down and reboot. Link to comment
kinktao Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 Okay, powered it down and now it looks okay. I think it's safe for me to hit format? Posted picture below, new drive is drive 7. Link to comment
SSD Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Yes. unRAID will report a drive as unformatted if it fails to mount the drive. Although being unformatted is one reason a drive would fail to mount, there are other ones. Clearly you hit one of the other ones. But had you hit format, it would have gladly formatted every drive in your array. No recovery would have been possible without using reiserfsck, which although effective much of the time, is not something you would enjoy and the results would likely be less than perfect. As I said, update your array to at least 4.7, but you really should go to 5.0.5. Link to comment
kinktao Posted April 12, 2014 Author Share Posted April 12, 2014 Thanks for everyone's help. I will try updating later tonight. Link to comment
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