Upgrade to 6

[sdballer]

I've been out of the Unraid game for about 4 years and so has my server. 

I turned it on today and now showing a faulty drive, which is weird because it was working perfectly before and it's been stored safely.

I want to use Plex, but it looks like mine is out of date now. I guess what should I do at this point? How to treat this drive and upgrade to a fresh clean install of v6?

Once that is done, how do I install apps? Thanks =)

[garycase]

Do you have any idea what the state of your parity drive is?     If you're confident parity is good (too late to do a check since you have a failed drive); then I'd replace the faulty drive and let the replacement rebuild -- THEN do the update to v6 after that's complete.

 

If you're not sure, you could still do that; but be sure you carefully look at the files on disk 6 when it's done to confirm they're good [Preferably comparing them to your backups if your data is backed up].

 

If you don't have anything on disk 6 that you need [You can look at the drive even with it failed, since it will be reconstructed from the other disks in the array], then you can skip the replace/rebuild for now, and just do a new v6 configuration using all of the other drives (but NOT #6).   Just be sure you assign the correct drive as parity and as your cache; and then let the system do a parity sync ... and you'll then have a functioning v6 system.     If you do that, be sure you save your key file before you reformat the flash drive and load v6 => then you need to put the key file back on the flash drive before you boot to v6.

[sdballer]

I upgrade to v6, can I just add some new drives in, disregarding the 1 with issues and run New Config, so that the parity rebuilds based on that removal of a drive and multiple additions?

Edited May 30, 2017 by sdballer

[garycase]

Yes, if you don't care about the contents of the old drive you can simply leave it out of your new config and everything will be fine.

 

[sdballer]

Thanks for the reply. I am running that now. Hopefully goes quickly.

Before I was able to access the individual disks by doing smb \\192.168.1.200\disk1 (or maybe it was \mnt\disk1 - can't remember now)

Is this still possible? Nothing shows up expect my folder shares. Seems I cant access any of the individual drives or cache drive.

Feeling super rusty, I used to be good at this!

Edited May 30, 2017 by sdballer

[garycase]

Disk shares are disabled by default in v6.

 

You should just be able to go to \\Tower\<ShareName> to see your shares.     Or to \\Tower\DiskX  (where X = the disk #) to see the individual disks, after you've enabled disk shares.

 

Go to Settings - Global Share Settings to enable disk shares.