I shut down my unRAID a few days ago when thunderstorms were coming through and haven't had it back on since then.  I turned it on tonight and it wasn't working.  I went to the Main page on the web server and it says the array is stopped because one of the disks is being upgraded (see attached picture).  My first 10 disks are all the same and previously they all had similar disk names (like disk 4 = SAMSUNG HD501LJ/S0MUJ13P325953).  However, now disk 5 has a new name (SAMSUNG HD501LJ/400611FP375626 where it is all numbers after the slash instead of S0MUJ...) even though I haven't messed with the drive at all!  I know it used to be similar to the other disk names because I took a printout of the screen after I got it set up.

 

I've attached my syslog, if anyone has seen this behavior before, I would greatly appreciate advice on how to get this back up!

 

 

Rebooting didn't help, but powering off, pulling the bad drive out of its IcyDock and shoving it back in and rebooting seems to have taken care of it.  Not exactly reassuring.  If someone does get a chance to take a look at this, it might be helpful to others in the future.

 

Thanks.

This is the second post in a couple of days where thunderstorms may have caused problems.  I hope most folks are running some sort of filtering - even a cheapie offers a bit of protection.

 

 

Bill

In my case, I didn't think it was related to the thunderstorm, as I shut down without any problems, restarted after it had passed, and every thing appeared fine.  But you could be right, there may have been a power spike that caused hidden corruption, that showed up later when I tried to write to the array.

 

See my thread http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=796.0, and notice the resulting problems in the model and serial numbers of Disk2 and Disk6.  When I was able to get my system back up, all of the drive info was correct again.  I don't know if my problem is related to yours or not, but it does seem possible.  I can't help with yours, because I have no idea what happened to mine.

 

I use a UPS from APC, Backups Pro 1100.  It should have filtered any problems, and there were no obvious symptoms of a power spike or blink, other than some very loud cracks of thunder!

 

Like RobJ, I shut down well before the storm got close by.  I also run with a APC Back-UPS XS 1500, so I don't think this was storm related.

 

I think the corruption of the disk names that we both saw is cause for concern though.  I'm not sure if they are related to each other, but they seem pretty similar.

My HD501LJ discs show all with "S0Hsomething" or "S0Msomething" names. So if this one HD501LJ disk really shows with a different name now, I'd guess that this is probably some kind of hardware problem. Either the controller has a problem. Or the harddisk. Just my best guess, though...