Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere in the roadmap forum and subforums, but a search did not show anything immediately related.

 

After going through an issue where a data drive was suffering from READ errors but not WRITE errors (documented here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35014.0 ), the following feature is part of a larger feature set to bring this situation to the user's attention as early as possible.

 

Ability to manually mark a drive as disabled as it prevents the need to have physical access to the server

 

This is an alternate sub-feature if there is some requirement to only allow certain operations on disabled drives, such as replacing or rebuilding the drive.

Apologies if this has already been posted somewhere in the roadmap forum and subforums, but a search did not show anything immediately related.

 

After going through an issue where a data drive was suffering from READ errors but not WRITE errors (documented here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35014.0 ), the following feature is part of a larger feature set to bring this situation to the user's attention as early as possible.

 

Ability to manually mark a drive as disabled as it prevents the need to have physical access to the server

 

This is an alternate sub-feature if there is some requirement to only allow certain operations on disabled drives, such as replacing or rebuilding the drive.

This is already available - albeit maybe in a non-obvious way.  The sequence is:

• Stop the Array
  
• Set the problem drive to not assigned
  
• Start the array.  It will warn you that the array is unprotected and a drive is missing.  At this point unRAID 'forgets' the serial number of the drive previously assigned.
  
• Stop the array
  
• You can now assign any drive you like (including the one unassigned above).  When you start the array unRAID will start a rebuild onto the drive just assigned.
  

 

I agree a simple check box in the GUI that effectively did the steps to get the drive unassigned would be a nice addition.  The logical place to add such a box would be on the dialog displayed when you click on the drive in the main tab of the GUI.