So, I have a raid 6 volume with 16 drives, it was 15, but I recently did an extend volume and added 1 more (15), but while doing the extend, a few drives reported issues(16,18). 2 of which showed as "crashed", the guidance was to remove them, "Deactivate" and then to re-add them, then reboot for automatic rebuild, so I did this but they are now just showing as “not initialized” and I can’t seem to readd them until the volume is repaired, while all this was happening, the volume was still trying to expand with adding the disk (15), then the disk I was adding (15) and another disk (17) "crashed".
I can’t add disks as hot spare until the volume is back up and running, but the system keeps reporting the disks as "crashed" after reboots, I've taken the disks out and done full sector scans on them on another system, and they are showing as fine!
I really don’t understand what is happening or why. I tried adding a new drive, but it just shows as “not initialized” and can’t add it to the volume in place of drive 15/17
The volume is currently in read only mode, I can see the data, but when I I try to back it up, its going soooo slow (few meg at most, somtimes KB's).
Looking for options to getting the volume fixed, thanks!
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So, I have a raid 6 volume with 16 drives, it was 15, but I recently did an extend volume and added 1 more (15), but while doing the extend, a few drives reported issues(16,18). 2 of which showed as "crashed", the guidance was to remove them, "Deactivate" and then to re-add them, then reboot for automatic rebuild, so I did this but they are now just showing as “not initialized” and I can’t seem to readd them until the volume is repaired, while all this was happening, the volume was still trying to expand with adding the disk (15), then the disk I was adding (15) and another disk (17) "crashed".
I can’t add disks as hot spare until the volume is back up and running, but the system keeps reporting the disks as "crashed" after reboots, I've taken the disks out and done full sector scans on them on another system, and they are showing as fine!
I really don’t understand what is happening or why. I tried adding a new drive, but it just shows as “not initialized” and can’t add it to the volume in place of drive 15/17
The volume is currently in read only mode, I can see the data, but when I I try to back it up, its going soooo slow (few meg at most, somtimes KB's).
Looking for options to getting the volume fixed, thanks!
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