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BMuuN
Jan 27, 2021Aspirant
Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #1,2,3,4.
Wondering if someone can help... I can't access any of the 4 hard drives in my ReadyNAS 104. As a result all network shares are inaccessible. I'm running firmware v6.10.4 and the admin web inte...
mdgm
Jan 29, 2021Virtuoso
# for i in /dev/sd[a-z]3; do echo $i; mdadm -E $i | egrep "Creat|Update|State|Raid"; done; # mdadm --examine /dev/sd[a-z]3 | egrep -i 'sd|event|uuid|recovery|super|role|update'
If you want to check the state of the RAID running one of the above commands should indicate the state of the data volume RAID for each disk. It sounds like you probably have at least three different update times or multiple disks with each of at least 2 update times.
BMuuN
Jan 29, 2021Aspirant
Appreciate you all taking the time to get back to me.
I don't want to risk loosing any of the data so I'm going to attach all 4 drives to my main PC and run a recovery software as suggested by StephenB. If the data can be recovered I'll backup the data to a new NAS which I'll order over the weekend.
mdgm I've ran your scripts and as you correctly mentioned the "Update Time" is different on 2 of the disks. It also appears that some disks think the array state is missing a disk:
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