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Unraid Thinks I Have Installed A New Parity Disk (parity drive now blue)

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I have a 10x6TB unraid server running 5.0.5 (1 parity + 9 data)

 

I was writing a file to disk9 and it was failing. I have been having some issues with my local network, so i tried deleting the failed file and unraid told me the file system was read only. I rebooted unraid through the web interface, and now it is telling me that a new parity disk has been installed.

 

On the device status screen, there is a blue ball next to the parity drive. All the other drives are green.

 

Relevant lines from syslog:

 

Dec 31 03:37:29 Tower2 kernel: mdcmd (1): import 0 8,80 5860522532 WDC_WD60EFRX-68MYMN0_WD-WX21D1406561

Dec 31 03:37:29 Tower2 kernel: md: import disk0: [8,80] (sdf) WDC_WD60EFRX-68MYMN0_WD-WX21D1406561 size: 5860522532

Dec 31 03:37:29 Tower2 kernel: md: disk0 replaced

 

I haven't added or removed any drives, so I am unsure what to do next. I don't want to corrupt my existing data.

 

How do I go about resolving this?

 

The full syslog is attached.

 

syslog_tower2.txt

SMART reports could help, if not all at least from the parity disk.

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How can I get SMART reports without starting the array and mounting the disks?

Running diagnostics (see Tools), creates a SMART report of all disks present in the system regardless of the array state.

 

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Smart report from parity drive (/dev/sdf)

smartctl 6.2 2013-07-26 r3841 [i686-linux-3.9.11p-unRAID] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-13, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x002f   200   200   051    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   198   194   021    Pre-fail  Always       -       9066
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       461
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x002e   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   087   087   000    Old_age   Always       -       10174
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032   100   253   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       44
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       12
193 Load_Cycle_Count        0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       1133
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   119   110   000    Old_age   Always       -       33
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate   0x0008   100   253   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0

Running diagnostics (see Tools), creates a SMART report of all disks present in the system regardless of the array state.

 

He's still on v5  :P

Running diagnostics (see Tools), creates a SMART report of all disks present in the system regardless of the array state.

 

He's still on v5  :P

 

Ay ay, didn't pay enough attention, would recommend to upgrade to v6 though :)

 

SMART looks fine, syslog is not very useful because it's after rebooting, assuming all other disks are fine, you have to options:

 

1) Start the array to begin a parity sync (you'll be unprotected until it finishes)

 

 

2) Assume parity is mostly valid and:

 

Take a screenshot of all array assignments

Go to Utils and click New Config

Reassign all disks, double check parity is in the parity slot

Before starting the array check the box "Parity is already valid"

Run a parity check

 

ETA: when done also recommend upgrading to v6

 

 

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The smart reports for the other drives look very similar, no real errors that i can see.

 

Sounds like the best thing to do here is to run another parity sync.

 

Out of interest, what could have caused unraid to think my parity drive has changed? Some configuration file getting corrupted somehow?

Difficult to guess, if it was a disk error it should get disable (red ball), next time grab the syslog before rebooting.

The smart reports for the other drives look very similar, no real errors that i can see.

 

Sounds like the best thing to do here is to run another parity sync.

 

Out of interest, what could have caused unraid to think my parity drive has changed? Some configuration file getting corrupted somehow?

 

You may want to compare super.dat and super.old files, they should be the same unless some corruption. super.dat keeps track of current disk assignments and a new disk (blue) isn't referenced in this file yet.

 

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Sounds like the best thing to do here is to run another parity sync.

 

If you're going to do a New Config and new parity sync anyway, I'd go ahead and upgrade to v6 before doing it.  You're going to be running "at risk" anyway, and no longer have the ability to rebuild any of the other drives ... so you may as well move to the newest version while you're doing it.

 

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