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ppieper
Feb 10, 2021Aspirant
All disks marked as inactive
Hello, After pulling out and re-insert all the disks (one by one) to see if they are all the same type, all disks are marked as inactive. I know it's a stupid thing to do without shutting down t...
Sandshark
Feb 11, 2021Sensei
You can try booting with each set of five drives. When you pulled and re-inserted the first drive, the unit would have started a re-sync. Then you pulled another in the middle of that sync, when the volume was already not redundant. I would think that the set of five without the first one pulled would be the most likely to work if any of them are.
- StephenBFeb 11, 2021Guru - Experienced User
Sandshark wrote:
You can try booting with each set of five drives. When you pulled and re-inserted the first drive, the unit would have started a re-sync. Then you pulled another in the middle of that sync, when the volume was already not redundant. I would think that the set of five without the first one pulled would be the most likely to work if any of them are.
That is worth a try. The resync would definitely have stopped the instant you pulled the second drive.
If you do attempt this, you should boot up the NAS read-only so it doesn't attempt to "repair" anything.
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