I use my server remotely 90% of the time, when I am onsite it is usually to attach an unassigned device to back up date I have been working with (1000's of gb), the last few times I visited and done what I needed I have noticed that a drive was showing as missing when I later connected remotely, I later discovered that a sata power plug had come loosed when sliding the side case shut, when plugged back in it was all fine. This has happened again for the third time (yes, I am going to alter the hardware structure), however, the last instance, two plugs got pulled, I plugged back in and one of the drive was showing as missing, I identified it and added it back into the array, now this time it is seeing it as a new disk and has started a data rebuils, approx. 2 days to complete, im guessing I cant stop the train now ? why did the drive not just get added back into the array and carry on as normal ?

 

EDIT: rebuild has balanced out to 8 hours …. phew. guess I should let it ride out ?

Edited April 18, 20197 yr by loady

Yes, let it ride and see if it completes successfully.  

 

By the way, the situation you described is not unusual.  By any chance, did someone tie and dress all of the SATA (data and power) up so that they would 'look pretty'?  This is usually a recipe for disaster as moving one cable the slightest amount will often loosen one or more connectors.  If I get inside my server case to do anything, the last thing I do before closing up the case to check each SATA connector to make sure it is securely pushed in tight-- working from inside out.   And I have quick-change drive enclosures so that the case does not need to be opened for drive changes. 

14 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

Yes, let it ride and see if it completes successfully.  

 

By the way, the situation you described is not unusual.  By any chance, did someone tie and dress all of the SATA (data and power) up so that they would 'look pretty'?  This is usually a recipe for disaster as moving one cable the slightest amount will often loosen one or more connectors.  If I get inside my server case to do anything, the last thing I do before closing up the case to check each SATA connector to make sure it is securely pushed in tight-- working from inside out.   And I have quick-change drive enclosures so that the case does not need to be opened for drive changes. 

I plant to do the same and yes, they do look pretty.

 

I let it ride out, however when I came back to check this morning the disk is now disabled, from what I can see the data rebuild finished but it is saying contents emulated

4 minutes ago, loady said:

the disk is now disabled, from what I can see the data rebuild finished but it is saying contents emulated

If it finished the disk would't be disabled, unless it got disabled again after the rebuild, either way you should post the diagnostics.

1 minute ago, johnnie.black said:

If it finished the disk would't be disabled, unless it got disabled again after the rebuild, either way you should post the diagnostics.

yes..errmm..have not posted a diags for a while..theres a button somewhere now for it ?

Edited April 19, 20197 yr by loady

16 minutes ago, loady said:

oes..errmm..have not posted a diags for a while..theres a button somewhere now for it ?

Tools->Diagnostics to get the diagnostics zip file.

Edited April 19, 20197 yr by itimpi

7 minutes ago, itimpi said:

Tolls->Diagnostics to get the diagnostics zip file.

thanks. LOTS of errors in this one

warptower-diagnostics-20190419-1003.zip

Disk dropped offline so there's no SMART report, but looks more like a connection problem, assuming SMART is OK replace cables and try again.

36 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

Disk dropped offline so there's no SMART report, but looks more like a connection problem, assuming SMART is OK replace cables and try again.

ok, checked all cables, I even changed the power cable for a spare one, rebooted and its still disabled

warptower-diagnostics-20190419-1103.zip

15 minutes ago, loady said:

and its still disabled

That's expected, you'll need to rebuild again.

1 minute ago, johnnie.black said:

That's expected, you'll need to rebuild again.

unfortunatlely, its not offering a rebuild ?

7 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

That's expected, you'll need to rebuild again.

 

https://wiki.unraid.net/Troubleshooting#Re-enable_the_drive

1 hour ago, johnnie.black said:

https://wiki.unraid.net/Troubleshooting#Re-enable_the_drive

It's rebuilding again, so if something goes wrong will syslog catch it ?..I'm thinking last time it stopped for some reason.

1 hour ago, loady said:

so if something goes wrong will syslog catch it ?

Yes, grab diags before rebooting/shutdown.

5 hours ago, loady said:

so if something goes wrong

You should configure Notifications so you get alerted immediately by email or other agent.

No joy, I came back this morning and the disk is again disabled, from what I can see from notification from the "fix common problems" plugin, it comes back online and is in normal operation, the it immediately is disabled again and starts another data rebuild which gets cancelled, not by me, here is the log, I have not yet rebooted the server.

warptower-diagnostics-20190420-0835.zip

Unfortunately log is spammed with these errors:

Apr 19 18:20:41 warptower nginx: 2019/04/19 18:20:41 [error] 4639#4639: *79539 nchan: error publishing message (HTTP status code 500), client: unix:, server: , request: "POST /pub/disks?buffer_length=1 HTTP/1.1", host: "localhost"
Apr 19 18:20:41 warptower nginx: 2019/04/19 18:20:41 [error] 4639#4639: MEMSTORE:00: can't create shared message for channel /disks
Apr 19 18:20:42 warptower nginx: 2019/04/19 18:20:42 [crit] 4639#4639: ngx_slab_alloc() failed: no memory
Apr 19 18:20:42 warptower nginx: 2019/04/19 18:20:42 [error] 4639#4639: shpool alloc failed
Apr 19 18:20:42 warptower nginx: 2019/04/19 18:20:42 [error] 4639#4639: nchan: Out of shared memory while allocating message of size 10171. Increase nchan_max_reserved_memory.

 

No idea what they mean but syslog rotated and missed the disk errors, but it dropped offline so reboot and post new diags so we can check SMART.

Can't get smart if disk is disabled?

You can, just not with the disk offline, like currently, you need to reboot.

When I reboot it still says disabled, is disabled also offline

disk disable and offline are not the same thing, post new diags

38 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

disk disable and offline are not the same thing, post new diags

 

Ok,  turned off and on and heres the fresh diags

warptower-diagnostics-20190420-1112.zip

That disk has SMART disable by default, on the console type:

 

smartctl -s on /dev/sdf

 

Then grab and post new diags.

2 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

That disk has SMART disable by default, on the console type:

 

smartctl -s on /dev/sdf

 

Then grab and post new diags.

warptower-diagnostics-20190420-1122.zip

drive seems to be healthy ?