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RN212 - Removed one disk, now cant see data on remaining disk
I've added an eda500 to my rn314 and want to migrate disks & data from the old rn212.
I powered the rn212 down and removed one disk. I then added this to the EDA500 and set up a new volume on ...
Hi,
It was a 2 disk mirror (x-raid). If I go into the volumes tab, theres a message "remove inactive volumes to use disk. Disk #2"
I would expect everything to work fine with one mirror removed, it should just be degradded.
Thanks
That is the expectation. But waiting until you already re-formatted the second drive before checking the first would give you a degraded volume was not your best choice. Best would have been to remove the drive with power on. Second best would be to at least re-boot before re-formatting.
It appears that something did get corrupted on your drive and it now no longer has the other to recover from. On the outside chance it's just the OS partition, you can try an OS re-install.
Hi,
I agree, in hindsite, I should have checked it would boot with the disk removed! I did think I was taking the safest approach by powering down first. I was also trying to save doing a volume resync if I put the disk backin if the EDA500 had not worked and I needed to put the disk back. (wasn't sure you could have 2 x-raids with EDA500 - I can confirm you can)
Tried the OS reinstall, it now boots without going through the wetup wizard and has the correct NAS name, but the volume is still not accesible.
Is the NAS showing any volumes, even "bad" ones?
As for the EDA500. You can have one XRAID on the main NAS and one on each EDA500, if that's what you meant. Having a single volume span both chasses is a really bad idea. You cannot have two XRAID volumes in any single chassis, you have to use FlexRAID for that.
Hi
I see a voluime "data" showing 3.63TB, 0 free, Raid 1. There is a red dot in the top right corner, hovering on iot is says the volume is inactive or dead. Theres also a log message "remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #2"
A disk shows in slot 2 high;ighted red.
I only have options to "DESTROY" the volume or format the disk
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