Please Help - Disk showing Unformatted
I have been running the unraid server for about 1.5 years and never had any issues or drive fails. This is my first major problem so please bear with me. I was having a issues with my disk 2 where it was showing "not installed". It ended up being the cable because was bad because when I put a new cable one on it worked. I checked the files out on disk 2 and all the data was there, so I used the restore button. Then I stared rebuilding the parity and the power went out. When I rebooted the
Your gigabyte BIOS has apparently applied a HPA on the Hitachi disk that will not mount making it appear to the OS as a small fraction of its real size.
To read about the HPA see here in the wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Topical_Index#HPA
These lines show what the kernel is seeing disk1 (currently /dev/sde) is being detected as a tiny fraction of its native size.:
Jan 14 01:49:38 Tower kernel: ata5.00: HPA detected: current 65134, native 1953525168
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