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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
Regarding HD1. During this week I have noticed that Victoria (running on MiniXP, from a boot-up disk/flash card) would give warnings of slow blocks (200<300ms) at varying locations (the location would differ from scan to scan), and would flag one error consistently at one LBA. But when I tried to run an "installed" copy of Victoria on the PC which was running XP as normal, I had no errors. Likewise, if I also boot up into XP and did not run the "installed" Victoria, but another copy off the memory stick or SD card, I have no error. But if I run again the MiniXP off the boot-up CD/DVD/memstic/flashcard, and run Victoria, I get the error.
In all cases, it is the same version of Victoria, same version build etc.
I can only guess that the driver which run the hard disks are better under Windows than under the MiniXP.
Which tells me that the HD fault is somewhat even smaller. Nevertheless, minute as it maybe , there is a weakness in that disk, which needs to be addressed.
This is the reason why I think that remapping the block could be enough to solve the issue which NAS flagged (as in my Option 3).
Your query
Both Option 2 and Option 3, HD1 refitted BEFORE restarting NAS.
I interrupted NAS while it was starting a resinch, so I assume that when I restart NAS, and it finds HD1 in bay1, it would restart that resinch (which had been interrupted after one minute or maybe two minutes maximum).
So, for Option 2, it may be immaterial if HD4 was present already (meaning been inserted when NAS was off) or hot-inserted, which would call for a resinch, but then that may simply interrupt a resinch which started one minute earlier and restart it (is it? see last paragraph).
In Option 3, I was considering waiting until NAS had finished the resinch (and hopefully found no error), then hot-insert HD4 to increase volume size, which would call for a resinch on 4 disks.
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If my thinking for Option 2 is wrong, and NAS would instead finish the first resinch of HD1, 2 & 3(ignoring the hot-insert), and then, once the resinch has finished, resinch the 4 HDs together, then Option 2 (a+b) and 3 (a+b+c) would actually be the same thing. Which means that, to do Option 2 as I am considering, I would need to refit both HD1 and HD4 before powering NAS, which should then restart the resinch which was interrupted, but seeing a 4th disk, would span the resinch across all disks (again, I am just speculating/guessing what NAS would do)
Sorry if it all sound messy and convoluted, I am sure that it is all very simple, but I probably have not yet understood the laws of NAS as yet.
In all cases, it is the same version of Victoria, same version build etc.
I can only guess that the driver which run the hard disks are better under Windows than under the MiniXP.
Which tells me that the HD fault is somewhat even smaller. Nevertheless, minute as it maybe , there is a weakness in that disk, which needs to be addressed.
This is the reason why I think that remapping the block could be enough to solve the issue which NAS flagged (as in my Option 3).
Your query
Both Option 2 and Option 3, HD1 refitted BEFORE restarting NAS.
I interrupted NAS while it was starting a resinch, so I assume that when I restart NAS, and it finds HD1 in bay1, it would restart that resinch (which had been interrupted after one minute or maybe two minutes maximum).
So, for Option 2, it may be immaterial if HD4 was present already (meaning been inserted when NAS was off) or hot-inserted, which would call for a resinch, but then that may simply interrupt a resinch which started one minute earlier and restart it (is it? see last paragraph).
In Option 3, I was considering waiting until NAS had finished the resinch (and hopefully found no error), then hot-insert HD4 to increase volume size, which would call for a resinch on 4 disks.
.
If my thinking for Option 2 is wrong, and NAS would instead finish the first resinch of HD1, 2 & 3(ignoring the hot-insert), and then, once the resinch has finished, resinch the 4 HDs together, then Option 2 (a+b) and 3 (a+b+c) would actually be the same thing. Which means that, to do Option 2 as I am considering, I would need to refit both HD1 and HD4 before powering NAS, which should then restart the resinch which was interrupted, but seeing a 4th disk, would span the resinch across all disks (again, I am just speculating/guessing what NAS would do)
Sorry if it all sound messy and convoluted, I am sure that it is all very simple, but I probably have not yet understood the laws of NAS as yet.
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