After a previous disaster with a failing hard drive due to a power cut and no UPS (bad idea i know!). I've got a replacement drive - installed it, etc.....yet unRaid doesn't seem to be able to pick it up. Uninstalled and reinstalled (I had a suspicion over a SATA cable I was using) and was the same.

 

Done some searching on here (switched from IDE to AHCI - nothing) and ended up plugging a monitor and keyboard in just to see what was going on. The new drive does get picked up by the BIOS (tried the IDE -> AHCI change as well) and there's a lot of error messages going past relating to an hard drive problem - and it takes a good 5 minutes to get to the root login prompt.

 

It all feels like the new HDD needs to be RMA'd. But I'd thought I'd post the syslog in case I'm being silly. Other potential issues could be that I decided to upgrade from 4.5.3 to 4.6 whilst the server was offline (I also added unMenu but I've not got further than putting the install program on the USB stick).

 

syslog.txt

It all feels like the new HDD needs to be RMA'd. But I'd thought I'd post the syslog in case I'm being silly.

The disk seems to be un-responsive when given commands.  I do not think you are silly.

 

Only other possibility is a bad port on the disk controller.  (If you use a different physical port, you'll need to assign the disk on the Devices page to the correct logical slot in the array.)

 

Joe L.

Well I just tried it when connected to a different SATA port on the mobo (I've got a 320gb drive going spare which worked just fine) and got this message: "S.M.A.R.T. Command failed - press F1 to resume"

 

No prizes for guessing this HDD is going back to the supplier...