Running Unraid pro 6.3.5 on an Areca 1280...replacing a bad drive (final drive left of a great Seagate Barracuda

ST3000DM001 collapse (6 drives in 8 months)...but I digress...I always preclear before assigning to array.

 

New drive out of box, inserted on workstation...pulled smart and smart short test beautifully...stuck it in open

server slot...Drive shows up clearly (serial/model) under "Unassigned devices", but shows as being spun down, never

happens this way, clicking spin up doesn't spin it up...

 

Going to latest preclear plugin to see if it will show...preclear shows drive letter but no model/serial number

string, just an underscore...very creepy.

 

If I stop the array, the drive correctly shows as a replacement drive option for any of the available drive

assignment slots.

 

If I change the physical drive slot in the server, same issue.

 

The onboard raid card web interface shows that the drive is up and running as normal.

 

Attempting to run the ancient preclear script (1.15) from the command line, shows the drive being available

correctly, but gives me a problem with the smart not being able to get information from the drive (as expected), as

smart support for Areca is still all screwed up in unraid and even with special configuration options doesn't really

work in the web interface.

 

I have rebooted the server with no changes...almost nothing in the logs that shows an issue when inserted...does anyone have a guess as to a why or fix?

 

 

 

 

Edited December 8, 20178 yr by bsim
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This is very strange...

 

So  I switched the new drive over to the motherboard sata ports...refreshed the plugin page, still (broken) what I see from the preclear plugin is attached...

 

I dropped to the old 1.15 preclear on the command line and it works beautifully...

 

I uninstalled the preclear plugin, reinstalled it and everything shows up ok now! Is it possible there was a conflict with a dependency?

 

Edited December 8, 20178 yr by bsim