Disk 8 Disabled (in error state) and other read errors on disk 4

[JorgeB]

1 minute ago, gnollo said:

and wait a couple of hours,

Couple of minutes is enough to reset CMOS.

 

1 minute ago, gnollo said:

What other settings are important for me to save in the BIOS to get the best out of Unraid?

Besides AHCI, boot order, make sure VT-x is enable if you're using VMs and that should be it.

[gnollo]

Reset CMOS, back up and running, replacing the drive with a new one and rebuilding, instead of wiping the old one in case anything goes wrong with the rebuild

[gnollo]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LSI-9211-8i-Internal-SAS-SATA-6Gbps-8-Ports-HBA-PCI-E-RAID-Controller-Card-/142280748330?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c1

 

It doesn't mention the "IT mode", is that something I can change myself once I bought the card?

[gnollo]

https://nguvu.org/freenas/Convert-LSI-HBA-card-to-IT-mode/
So I can just follow this procedure to flash it once I have received it, any other suggestions regarding this card?

[gnollo]

Event: unRAID Parity sync / Data rebuild
Subject: Notice [TOWER] - Parity sync / Data rebuild finished (0 errors)
Description: Duration: 16 hours, 19 minutes, 36 seconds. Average speed: 136.1 MB/s
Importance: normal

 

Diagnostics attached after it finished

tower-diagnostics-20181219-1529.zip

[JorgeB]

Rebuild went fine, couple of ATA errors on the Jmicron controller, that's kind of expected since they are not the best.

 

As for the LSI, it can be flashed to IT mode if it comes with RAID mode, I prefer buying used server pulls instead of new from China, less likely to get a fake.

[gnollo]

11 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

Rebuild went fine, couple of ATA errors on the Jmicron controller, that's kind of expected since they are not the best.

 

As for the LSI, it can be flashed to IT mode if it comes with RAID mode, I prefer buying used server pulls instead of new from China, less likely to get a fake.

Thanks for the advice, I will look for second hand instead then. Is the Jmicron controller a motherboard component?

[JorgeB]

3 minutes ago, gnollo said:

Is the Jmicron controller a motherboard component?

Yes, they are the 2 onboard purple SATA ports, swap the drives there to the LSI when you get it.

[gnollo]

on a different note, tried to update the server software, I get this message boot device

"shows 137044 free but upgrade needs 179648
plugin: run failed: /bin/bash retval: 1"

Any suggestions on how to free space? Flash disk size is 509Mb

[trurl]

1 hour ago, gnollo said:

on a different note, tried to update the server software, I get this message boot device

"shows 137044 free but upgrade needs 179648
plugin: run failed: /bin/bash retval: 1"

Any suggestions on how to free space? Flash disk size is 509Mb

You might have to do the manual method of upgrading. Typically this is just replacing all bz* files in top level of flash with those from download.

[gnollo]

On 12/19/2018 at 3:58 PM, johnnie.black said:

Yes, they are the 2 onboard purple SATA ports, swap the drives there to the LSI when you get it.

LSI card in, disks swapped to it.

tower-diagnostics-20181224-2153.zip

[JorgeB]

Everything looks fine, though not much to see since diags are after rebooting, but only worth posting new ones if you have some issue.