I know this is old tech now but I am trying to help a friend out with a issue.

 

Basically he has a N40L Microserver with 6 gig of ram and also it has a Startech ESata card which connects to a Sliverstone 4 bay enclosure with two disks in it.

 

He called me up as it had errored and wasn't moving files from Sab that Sonarr had downloaded.

 

The Sab and Sonarr dockers had disappeared, the cache drive was full. And also Disk 5 was disabled.

 

So I have moved all the files off the cache, tidied up the cache drive, reinstalled the dockers from a backup and then upgraded the server to the latest Unraid - it was on 6.8.2.

 

I have managed to get Disk 5 working again and the server is now going through  parity check and correct. The reason for the check is that disk 6 is now showing errors.

 

My gut feeling is that the Startech card is faulty but I have attached the Diagnostics for someone smarter than me to see if they can give me a point in the right direction to give me some guidance. The attached diagnostics are after having upgraded so are missing the info for Disk 5 being disabled. 

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20200414-1816.zip

It might be faulty, it might just having the typical Marvell related issues, but it can also be cable related since there are CRC errors, so you might try that first, but in any case I suggest replacing with an Asmedia or JMB based controller if possible.

Thanks Johnnie, I should have said that I have previously got him to change the cable between the N40 and the Silverstone.

 

I had seen previous CRC errors and I’ve seen you mention that it could be cable faults usually 👍 so that was my first port of call, we do heed your advice on here 😁