oops in my panic i previously posted this in the unraid 6 support section.  will delete that post and repost here.

 

My issue is that I had various problems accessing my shares yesterday.  after rebooting my router, switch, and server a few times, i see that everything has booted up, array started etc but its now saying 'disk 8 unformatted'.  this was a disk full of media!  i can access my shares just fine, however i assume they are not using files that are (or were) on disk 8.  disk is still showing green

 

on reboot there was a parity check started, which i stopped, probably stupid but i panicked.

 

so now i think i have an 'unformatted disk' which used to be full, and possibly corrupted parity because of the partial parity check?  yikes any suggestions?  Here is a smart report for the drive (attached)  i do have a backup drive precleared and ready, i could replace disk 8, and try to have parity rebuild  onto it?

 

will do nothing until i hear from someone knowledgable!

 

EDIT:  found this post which seems like i should try.

 

http://216.119.154.106/forum/index.php?topic=35092.0

 

 

 

 

Here's my previous post regarding the troubles i was having before the unformatted disk:

 

Hi all, i'm in a bit of panic mode here!  running unraid 5

 

sometime yesterday, i tried to access one of my server shares through windows, but windows wouldn't open the folder.  the windows cursor just spun and spun...

 

tried to access other items on the server and same thing.  assumed it was a router or switch problem, so rebooted both router and my switch.  no change

 

rebooted pc and server (had to do this with 'reboot' command in putty)

 

no change, cannot see or access any files.

 

wondered if permissions got screwy, so ran the 'newperms' utility.  ran overnight, but then it appears it froze.  right now can't access the gui, and still can't access any shares.

 

i CAN access the server through putty.  as well, i noticed that my plex and sab plugins are working, however plex can't play any files (ie the plex interface shows my movies, but i can't play them, it says server unreachable).  as well sab seems to be running, however it also can't seem to access files, i can see there are a couple of tv shows that its trying to extract, but can't

 

really have no idea where to go from here- any suggestions???

smart_report.zip

First thing.  Get out of the panic mode.  It won't solve anything.

 

Second thing.  Are you running version 5.0.5.  If you are, connected a monitor (and keyboard) to it and see what you see on the screen.  After hitting the 'Enter' key a couple of times, do you have a login prompt? 

 

Another thing to try if you are running 5.0.5, is to run the reboot command again and see if you can boot into the 'safe mode' from the connected monitor and keyboard.  If you can access your server this way, you probably have a problem with one of your plugins not starting correctly.

i'm not quite sure how to tell what unraid version i'm runnning... it says unraid 5.0 at the top of the gui

 

when i hit enter key, it says 'welcome to linux 3.9.6p'

 

i now have access to my server, however one of the disks came up as 'unformatted'.  i posted pics in this thread below

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=35374.0