Hi, this is my first time diving into setting up a server so I am hoping I am just missing something obvious. I have been trying for a week to get a parity drive set up but it keeps failing and setting itself as disabled. I have searched the forums and have tried a few things I have found but I can't seem to figure it out. Hoping someone with more experience could shed some light.

 

Setup:

2 brand new Western Digital 8tb drives taken from Easystore externals

Running unraid 6.8.3

 

Things I have tried:

- Formatting drives

- Stop array, de-select parity drive, start array, stop array, re-select parity drive.

- Run full diagnostics on both drives - both pass with no errors.

- Check cables/connections.

 

One thing to note: The drives originally wouldn't spin up. After searching I found out that these drives in particular go into an error state if 3.3v is supplied via the power supply cable. I have cut and taped off that wire. They spin up fine now and I have had no issues with them going offline that I can tell.

 

I have tried the parity check 3 times (each about 12 hours). I am kinda frustrated and exhausted. I feel like it shouldn't be this hard. I have attached the sys log but please let me know if there is any other info that would be helpful. Also, I have not put anything on the drives yet so there is no worry about data loss if that helps with suggesting something such as formatting again. I just wanted to get it setup before I use them just in case I screw it up.

 

edinburgh-diagnostics-20200530-1731.zip

Edited June 2, 20206 yr by itsmepetey
Issue was solved

Lots of call traces, including in the Unraid driver, this could point to some hardware issue, run memtest, also look for a BIOS update.

 

There is also constant log spam like this:

 

May 30 12:46:30 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3: AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:01.3
May 30 12:46:30 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Data Link Layer, (Receiver ID)
May 30 12:46:30 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3:   device [1022:1483] error status/mask=00000040/00006000
May 30 12:46:30 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3:    [ 6] BadTLP                
May 30 12:46:48 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3: AER: Corrected error received: 0000:00:01.3
May 30 12:46:48 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3: PCIe Bus Error: severity=Corrected, type=Data Link Layer, (Receiver ID)
May 30 12:46:48 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3:   device [1022:1483] error status/mask=00000040/00006000
May 30 12:46:48 EDINBURGH kernel: pcieport 0000:00:01.3:    [ 6] BadTLP    

See if this helps.

I took your advice. I updated the BIOS and then ran a memtest over night. No errors showed up so I went ahead and gave the parity sync another go. That fixed it and it completed without errors. Thanks for taking a look!