Formatting stuck - add new drive

[3ajs]

Hello, I've tried to preclear and format the new drive but both get stuck and requires a hard reset.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

 

beast-diagnostics-20200226-1555.zip

[JorgeB]

Diags are after rebooting, try again and grab new ones if it happens again, if the GUI doesn't respond use the console and type diagnostics, if that also doesn't work enable syslog server and try again.

[3ajs]

Here's an update: went through several cycles of leaving it alone for a few days, while it was stuck, GUI stopped responding, sometimes it would take down the whole LAN, unplug network cable LAN restored, hard reset Unraid server. 

 

After going through several cycles of this, the drive somehow appeared as Online and wrote 56GB of data. Now we have a new problem, whenever we start the array, it proceeds through to Array Started, but soon after the GUI becomes unresponsive. If left alone, it eventually leads to Unraid taking down the whole LAN, requiring us to unplug the network cable and hard reset Unraid.

 

Attached is the diagnostic pulled before starting the Unraid, we will try to get the diagnostic while the GUI is hung up...

beast-diagnostics-20200303-1630.zip

[3ajs]

Another diagnostic after hard reset...system was hung up

beast-diagnostics-20200303-1808.zip

[JorgeB]

13 minutes ago, 3ajs said:

Another diagnostic after hard reset

Those don't really help, did you:

On 2/27/2020 at 3:27 PM, johnnie.black said:

enable syslog server

 

[3ajs]

thanks heres the syslog attached. the ui became unresponsive some time after the array was started. a hard reset was done about 12 hours later and the syslog was pulled after the reset

syslog

[JorgeB]

There are issues with the flash drive, backup and re-create:

 

Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (5 != 4)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Filesystem has been set read-only
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (6 != 5)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (7 != 6)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (8 != 7)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (9 != 8)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (10 != 9)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (11 != 10)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (12 != 11)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (13 != 12)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (14 != 13)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (15 != 14)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (16 != 15)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: ata11.00: configured for UDMA/133
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (17 != 16)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (18 != 17)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (19 != 18)
Mar  4 16:31:44 Beast kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): error, clusters badly computed (20 != 19)

 

[3ajs]

Much appreciated...replaced flash drive...replaced registration key....UI working fine with array stopped, started array, hung up network about 20 minutes later. Attached syslog from flash drive

syslog (1)

[JorgeB]

SAT2-MV8 controller keeps crashing, those controllers have issues with recent devices (both HDD and SSD) and not recommended for some time, they usually work fine with all older disks up to 2/3TB, but have issues with some newer ones, it *might* work if you disconnect the 8TB disk.

[3ajs]

50 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

SAT2-MV8 controller keeps crashing, those controllers have issues with recent devices (both HDD and SSD) and not recommended for some time, they usually work fine with all older disks up to 2/3TB, but have issues with some newer ones, it *might* work if you disconnect the 8TB disk.

Thanks so much for your quick reply. Is it possible to switch to a different controller?

[JorgeB]

Yes, drives are tracked by serial number, though you'll need a PCIe controller, there aren't any good PCI-X options.

[3ajs]

On 3/13/2020 at 3:30 AM, johnnie.black said:

Yes, drives are tracked by serial number, though you'll need a PCIe controller, there aren't any good PCI-X options.

Really appreciate your advice. Have you heard of one that works well for swapping into the Supermicro 24 bay machines?

[JorgeB]

Any LSI with a SAS2008/2308/3008/3408 chipset in IT mode, e.g., 9201-8i, 9211-8i, 9207-8i, 9300-8i, 9400-8i, etc and clones, like the Dell H200/H310 and IBM M1015, these latter ones need to be crossflashed.

[cyruspy]

On 3/12/2020 at 3:47 PM, johnnie.black said:

SAT2-MV8 controller keeps crashing, those controllers have issues with recent devices (both HDD and SSD) and not recommended for some time, they usually work fine with all older disks up to 2/3TB, but have issues with some newer ones, it *might* work if you disconnect the 8TB disk.

Fix might be available via the openSUSE guys:

 

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/commit/drivers/ata/sata_mv.c?id=e9f691d899188679746eeb96e6cb520459eda9b4

 

I assume it would hit unRAID at one point in time.

[limetech]

On 5/11/2020 at 9:45 AM, cyruspy said:

Fix might be available via the openSUSE guys:

That patch is already in kernel 5.7.2 used by Unraid OS 6.9.0-beta22

[3ajs]

On 6/18/2020 at 5:54 PM, limetech said:

That patch is already in kernel 5.7.2 used by Unraid OS 6.9.0-beta22

Does that patch allow use of larger TB drives with SAT2-MV8? 

[JorgeB]

50 minutes ago, 3ajs said:

Does that patch allow use of larger TB drives with SAT2-MV8? 

It should, but it's not a capacity issue, there was a problem using some recent devices on that controller, it also affected some small SSDs, please test and report back.