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I've had a TB8 for about three years. A drive started to fail. My license had expired, so I had to buy into the new subscription model (the day after a sale on the licensing) so I could manage the array to handle putting a new disk in it (Disk G of a four drive array, Disk E-H). RAID0, so I know I'm gonna lose everything on that Volume - it's a backup volume, so not an issue. Unmounted, replaced the physical drive, then removed the volume (likely out of order -- not something I do every day), recreated the volume, and I get a message that an error occurred creating the volume (same name as the old one I removed), unable to create a file system on this volume.
I'm not roadblocked -- the Primary side of this array (Disks A-D) is working fine -- but I wanna be able to turn my backups on again.
Any thoughts about where to start with getting this array working?
Posted : 07/06/2024 2:04 pm
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OK, now it seems to work... but I'm not sure why. I'll post what I did in case it helps someone else.
I tried to disable safeguard mode, and while the logs said it did, the interface said it wasn't, and wouldn't let me do anything to the volume. I stopped/restarted the Softraid management console, and saw that the volume had safeguard mode disabled, so I quickly removed the volume successfully, and then initialized all four disks that were part of that volume. That worked. Then I pulled them into a new volume (safeguard turned off, not knowing if I'd need to do anything else to it), and it created correctly. Getting ready to load data to it.
I'm sure I violated some sequence of events that caused this weirdness to happen, but for now, things seem ok again.
Thanks for coming along for the ride!
Posted : 07/06/2024 3:16 pm
If the SoftRAID app ever gets "confused", quit/relaunch, such as safeguard not seemingly disabled. Or after failing to initialize a disk because it was "busy" for example.
good luck!
Posted : 07/06/2024 4:02 pm
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@softraid-support - Thanks! As it ends up, quit/relaunch seems to have been the most helpful thing to straightening things out. I'm moving data with Chronosync from the primary array to the secondary array in the TB8, and looks like things are going well.
Thanks for the reply!
Posted : 07/06/2024 4:04 pm
