June 7, 20197 yr Transferred my unraid setup into a server chassis from a huge desktop. Everything was going great. Booted up, worked, no problems. Bumped the power supply button and accidently turned it off. Turned it back on and it says no devices for all nine of my data drives and two parity drives. Cache drive still shows up fine. I can switch the plugs around on the hba's and all four plugs the cache drive will show up, so it's not that. I've tried different power supplies, pulling out a drive and plugging it into a different computer (which it doesn't show up in BIOS or disk management), pulled a drive from something else and plugged it in and it shows up in unassigned drives. So as I'm sitting here with zero idea what to do, I'm getting more and more pissed off because not only am I essentially missing like 30Tb of data, I can't even get anything to recognize the disks in case I couldn't fix it and have to start over. They don't even appear to spin up.
June 7, 20197 yr Community Expert Your description does not sound promising It sounds a bit as if you have somehow managed to send a power surge into the drives damaging their controllers. If the drives do not show up when plugged into another PC then they are definitely damaged in some way. Do you have backups? If not you might have to look into data recovery services if the data matters to you. Edited June 7, 20197 yr by itimpi
June 7, 20197 yr Author After all of the trouble shooting I've been doing for the last few hours, that was kind of what I was thinking too... Fuck... I suppose I'll give it a little while and see if anyone else has any ideas, and if not, take it outside and smash it in my driveway.
June 7, 20197 yr 4 minutes ago, Ix3u said: take it outside and smash it in my driveway. Yeah, don't do that. Yet. There are resources available to replace circuit boards. I've used these guys, no affiliation or kickbacks, just a satisfied customer. https://www.donordrives.com/
June 7, 20197 yr Author Well even though I have a very nice soldering iron (that I've never used) I'm about 100% sure I don't have the skills to swap the rom chip... Not too mention doing it nine times. Although by the end, I'd probably be better than when I started.
June 7, 20197 yr Well, at the very least get a quote from them on sending the drives in. 30TB is an awful lot to recover from backups, and if it was just a voltage spike the drives are likely ok to be reused after a circuit board replacement.
June 7, 20197 yr Author I was looking at the stuff to do it myself and got discouraged. After looking at the site more, looks like they'll do it cheap enough to make it a viable option. Thanks for the recommendation 👍
June 7, 20197 yr Just now, Ix3u said: I was looking at the stuff to do it myself and got discouraged. After looking at the site more, looks like they'll do it cheap enough to make it a viable option. Thanks for the recommendation 👍 Fingers crossed they'll offer you a bulk rate discount, especially if you have very many similar or identical models.
June 7, 20197 yr Author Nine of one type and two of another. Bulk pricing would be nice. I'll keep my fingers crossed
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