Shadey1 Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 (edited) Firstly I've made this issue myself. I'm acutely aware I am a twit 🤦♂️ So over the past few weeks, we've had cable issues, eventually, they come out to replace the modem/router combo and reconnect us to the exchange, tweak the power and get us back into our usual service but the wifi range is shocking. I think 'screw this, I'm off to buy a better router' It'll solve some other issues, like the unraid box being in the study and it connects over wifi, along with the wifi being flakey and slow. So far so good, the new router in, but it can't see the unraid box, I can't //tower or IP it. I stupidly hard power off a few times, and reboot thinking it was the unraid box before I thought to check that the router could see the tower. I left it a good few days before trying again to work it out. This morning I've sorted the subnets out, I can get to //tower, and I'm greeted with this: Panic sets in. My idea was to start it without the disks, turn it off and add them back in, but I can't since 2 are down...but I can't due to the warning: 'Too many wrong and/or missing disks!' Now I could believe the 1TB might've failed but the 4TB is a few months old, sure it could've failed but I've had unraid lose a drive before with power cuts, and readded it fine with it lasting for years after. I've tried digging around a bit and it looks like new config might be my answer but I wanted to ask the experts and see if anyone had any thoughts before I pulled that trigger! Other than that I am stumped! Thank you in advance. Edited June 15, 2019 by Shadey1 Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 You need to check/swap connections for the missing disks, check if they are detected in the bios, very unlike two disks would die at the same time. A new config would allow you to start the array but by losing the data on both missing disks. 1 Quote Link to comment
Shadey1 Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 33 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: You need to check/swap connections for the missing disks, check if they are detected in the bios, very unlike two disks would die at the same time. A new config would allow you to start the array but by losing the data on both missing disks. So I've had a look in the bios, the full ID string isn't there, but thankfully the 2 'failed' ones are pretty obviously different IDs, Boot option 8 and 9 which might be on a PCIe SATA card. Quote Link to comment
Shadey1 Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 (edited) And as if by magic: I'll change it to solved, I'm starting to think the sata card might be a bit screwy Edited June 15, 2019 by Shadey1 Quote Link to comment
testdasi Posted June 15, 2019 Share Posted June 15, 2019 Not just controller. Cable can be a problem too. Some years ago I had disk dropping randomly that turned out to be a bad cable / loose connection. I replaced the cable and it was all good. So recommend you replace the cables first to see if the problems come back before going drastic with the controller. Quote Link to comment
Shadey1 Posted June 15, 2019 Author Share Posted June 15, 2019 Cool I'll try that thanks, It's a bit of a mess in there so to even get 1 out might take a bit of effort. I'll spend some time on it. Next time 8 port Mobo instead I think Quote Link to comment
Shadey1 Posted October 7, 2020 Author Share Posted October 7, 2020 Just incase anyone else gets a similar issue this has twice since this post. Both in the last 3 months. The first just dropped while watching something streaming from it, and then after looking at the notes I spun down and it lost the second. A bunch of restarts, removing and adding drives until it could see them both again and it's fixed. I'm certain after a restart/power hiccup it 'loses' the sata card so I'll look to replace that in the near future! Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 7, 2020 Share Posted October 7, 2020 Surprised nobody asked for diagnostics. That would tell whether or not you are using a SATA controller that isn't recommended. Quote Link to comment
Shadey1 Posted March 7, 2021 Author Share Posted March 7, 2021 On 10/7/2020 at 3:13 PM, trurl said: Surprised nobody asked for diagnostics. That would tell whether or not you are using a SATA controller that isn't recommended. I missed this response at the time! I am pretty sure I picked a supported one, but now you have me wondering as it's done it again lol Quote Link to comment
Shadey1 Posted May 26, 2021 Author Share Posted May 26, 2021 I'm 90% certain I know what the issue is now as it's got worse and worse at doing this since I updated unraid a few months back, and since the most recent update it's nearly constant. My marvell Sata PCIe card is either dying or just not compatible. The wiki (in it's own words) is out of date but basically avoid marvell cards for Unraid 6.x Time to switch it out Quote Link to comment
ChatNoir Posted May 26, 2021 Share Posted May 26, 2021 3 hours ago, Shadey1 said: Time to switch it out You might want to look at this : https://forums.unraid.net/topic/102010-recommended-controllers-for-unraid Quote Link to comment
Shadey1 Posted June 14, 2021 Author Share Posted June 14, 2021 Very useful! Thank you @ChatNoir I switched it out before seeing this and I've had 0 issues since. I went with a https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08J2PK1HF/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 IO Crest 4 Port SATA III PCI-e 3.0 x1 Card Non-Raid with Low Profile Bracket ASMedia 1064 Quote Link to comment
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