October 4, 201015 yr I had a power cut in my house, rebooted everything and my unraid box was showing that a new parity drive was present?! Anyway, I proceeded to do a parity sync ... and it's going at 200kb/sec?! Remaining time is showing as 152999.1 minutes Please help!
October 4, 201015 yr I had a power cut in my house, rebooted everything and my unraid box was showing that a new parity drive was present?! Anyway, I proceeded to do a parity sync ... and it's going at 200kb/sec?! Remaining time is showing as 152999.1 minutes Please help! Attach a copy of your syslog to the next post you make. Instructions under troubleshooting in the wiki. Have you tried refreshing the browser. The initial estimate is often grossly incorrect as it is not considering sleeping drives.
October 4, 201015 yr I had a power cut in my house, rebooted everything and my unraid box was showing that a new parity drive was present?! I'm guessing that you hadn't added, or changed, the parity drive during the power outage? Anyway, I proceeded to do a parity sync ... and it's going at 200kb/sec?! I would have been very reluctant to start a new parity sync before investigating to find out why unRAID believed the parity drive was new!!
October 4, 201015 yr Author An update on this one: I checked the logfile, there were a bunch of I/O errors related to the parity drive, so I figured it had failed, however it wasnt making any weird clicking noises etc so I wasnt 100% convinced that it had actually died and it wasnt just some weird formatting problem (as it could've been cut off mid-write, and so on) I booted it back up without the parity drive in as I needed to get to some files, and then another of my drives was showing as unformatted?! Checked the logfile again and there were some more errors related to the "unformatted" drive. I had a quick look on here and they pointed to a controller/cable problem, so I replaced the SATA cable and it's all working fine now (albeit with no parity - i got what I wanted off and shut it down until i've sorted the parity drive problem). Anyway, back to the parity drive - I put it in a windows box to see what was going on, and for some reason it wont format - i've actually had this before on drives that are completely fine after being removed from "exotic" consoles/linux systems/etc, so i've stuck it in my test machine running DBAN, to completely zero the drive - seems to be working fine with no errors. Hopefully I can then put it back in and problem solved, when it finishes (about 10 hours )! I've also ordered a whole new set of sata cables as i've had problems in the past - not worth having potential problems in the future!
October 4, 201015 yr This thread makes me glad I invested in a UPS, especially since my area gets pretty frequent brown/blackouts.
October 5, 201015 yr Author Seems that fixed it, parity sync now going at 50mb/sec with no errors in the log
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