July 4, 201412 yr I tried to expand my array with a 4TB disk, I thought was precleared.. then it started preclearing it. So I shut down as gracefully as it would let me and I pulled the drive. I restarted the array without the drive then I started a preclear (v1.15) again. When I restarted the array it started a Parity check.. ok... no errors... but there were missing menu items. I figured they may come back after the Parity check but they did not. I also noticed my cache drive is not present. Maybe a loose cable. Anyway I am going to wait until tonight after the preclear is done. before I reboot or anything... can anyone explain this weird menu?
July 4, 201412 yr I tried to expand my array with a 4TB disk, I thought was precleared.. then it started preclearing it. So I shut down as gracefully as it would let me and I pulled the drive. I restarted the array without the drive then I started a preclear (v1.15) again. When I restarted the array it started a Parity check.. ok... no errors... but there were missing menu items. I figured they may come back after the Parity check but they did not. I also noticed my cache drive is not present. Maybe a loose cable. Anyway I am going to wait until tonight after the preclear is done. before I reboot or anything... can anyone explain this weird menu? I have never heard of anyone do what you have done here. Once you add a disk to the array, I would think it would be in the array, and that unRAID would be complaining that a disk was missing. You might have found a bug - not sure. I think you have a reasonable strategy to shutdown after the preclear finishes, although if the preclear has a long time to go, I might suggest that you stop it and make sure that the array is happy before proceeding with the preclear.
July 4, 201412 yr Author Parity Check completed. No errors. I am running my own preclear from a shell. Unraid is just sitting there. The other odd thing I forgot to mention.. None of the shares are available. I can only access flash. Its as if the array is on some kind of safe mode. I assume there is someway to have unraid forget the configuration and just rebuild parity if I needed to. Just hoping someone knew what is up before I start trying random stuff. Sent from my SM-N900V using Xparent BlueTapatalk 2
July 4, 201412 yr I only see the one 4T drive (parity). Were you adding a 4T data drive? You should post the syslog. There may be some hints in there.
July 4, 201412 yr Also make sure shares are enabled on the Settings / Share Settings? It sure looks to me like the array is having a problem starting (hence the "Starting ..." array status message. Again, the syslog may provide hints. Gizzard said the only share his sees is the flash, which is consistent with an array that is not started. There is a mode called maintenance mode that will bring the array online but not mount any disks. This is selectable from the Web page (as opposed to safe mode that is completely different that is available from the boot menu). Did you select that option when you started the array?
July 4, 201412 yr Author Also make sure shares are enabled on the Settings / Share Settings? It sure looks to me like the array is having a problem starting (hence the "Starting ..." array status message. Again, the syslog may provide hints. Gizzard said the only share his sees is the flash, which is consistent with an array that is not started. There is a mode called maintenance mode that will bring the array online but not mount any disks. This is selectable from the Web page (as opposed to safe mode that is completely different that is available from the boot menu). Did you select that option when you started the array? I do not recall starting in maintenance mode. It's possible, but I don't think so. Attached is the syslog and the unmenu pic which shows my second 4TB drive which is not in the array, but is currently 83% through its post-read step. Does the Syslog give you any clue? syslog-2014-07-04.zip
July 4, 201412 yr I am not the greatest expert at reading the syslogs, but if there is something bad I can usually spot it. Maybe not tell you why it is happening. At line 637 I see this that doesn't look quite right ... Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata1: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata6: softreset failed (device not ready) Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata6: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata2: softreset failed (device not ready) Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata2: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata4: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata5: softreset failed (device not ready) Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata5: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: Probing IDE interface ide1... Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HDS722020ALA330, JKAOA20N, max UDMA/133 Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata1.00: 3907029168 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA Jul 3 06:27:45 Houston kernel: ata1.00: configured for UDMA/133 But it looks like whatever it was there was a workaround and the disks came up. Besides this I do not see anything that looks bad. You do have a lot of packages being installed, that there is always some risk that packages can interfere with unRAID, but if you have been running them for a while, it should not be a problem. Do you have the powerdown script? You should be able to run it from unmenu's user scripts. unmenu thinks the array is up, which is a good sign. If rebooting doesn't bring the array online, you should try a safe mode boot. It will disable all of your addons and help determine if that is the problem. If it does come up, you should be able to add your precleared disk. I'd suggest running the preclear -t /dev/sdX (to test for a valid preclear signature) before trying to add it for extra confidence. I am not so familiar with 5.0rc3 but hope that is close enough to final to not be an issue. Not 100% sure though. Sounds like you'll be waiting until the post read verify completes. [/streamofconsciousness]
July 5, 201412 yr Author Hurray. After pre-clear and preclear -t I was able to start the array, and add both the new 4T drive and my 2T Cache drive that the power cable fell out on.... See this pretty picture below! Thanks all for the help!!
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