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I have a SoftRIAD mirror volume in which one of the disks takes a couple of seconds to spin up. Once it's running, everything works fine, it just takes a couple of seconds to get there. The problem is that apparently this is too slow for soft raid, so I keep getting errors about "missing secondary disk" and "One or more of the disks for the volume "Media" (disk7) is no longer usable. The volume is now locked to prevent data corruption." By the time I go into SoftRaid to see what's going on, the drive has spun up and there are no longer any errors. How can I fix this? Thanks.
Posted : 23/03/2019 9:54 am
Set the mirror time out to 2 minutes. (Mirror preferences)
See if that fixes this problem.
Posted : 25/03/2019 1:51 am
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Set the mirror time out to 2 minutes. (Mirror preferences)
See if that fixes this problem.
Well, I tried that, and now SoftRaid has completely lost its mind. It now shows two copies of the RAID drive, both mounted, both degraded, and both with no errors. Trying to unmount either only results in the first one being unmounted - the second one never can. And the command line df command *also* shows two disks mounted at /Media (which is where I have this drive mounted).
I'm thinking I'm going to have to physically pull one of the drives, manually copy the data to a third drive, blow away the mirror completely (assuming I even can) and start over. Unless there is some way to fix this...
Posted : 26/03/2019 10:39 pm
Send a SoftRAID tech support file to support at softraid.
You are describing the mirror failing over. But that would not make two volumes of which only one can mount. Maybe if we see it, something will be obvious what is wrong.
Posted : 26/03/2019 11:49 pm
