Changing failed drive

[darkconz]

Hi,

Before doing anything stupid, I want to check with guys here first.

I have a 11 drive RAIDZ3 setup in my case. My cable wires caught on fire and burnt 1 of the drives and burnt the ports to an unusable manner. I read the guidelines that I should hit disconnect the drive first before pulling the drive out physically... But I can't really do that now. I did drive checks on the remaining 10 drives and they are all good.

Now, should I boot FreeNAS (from USB) again and disconnect the drive even though the drive is not physically plugged into the HBA? The RAID is encrypted so would importing the RAID be a problem without 1 of the drives?

I haven't booted FreeNAS since the system went down. I've only done drive checks..

What steps should I take? Thanks.

 

[SweetAndLow]

What does the manual tell you to do when you have a drive failure?

I have a feeling it say remove the bad drive, replace the drive, offline the old drive if you can then replace it with the new drive.

 

[darkconz]

What does the manual tell you to do when you have a drive failure?

I have a feeling it say remove the bad drive, replace the drive, offline the old drive if you can then replace it with the new drive.

Hi,

I have read the manual but my situation is different. I can't have all 11 drives plugged into the HBA and start FreeNAS to disconnect the drive from GUI before removing it from the tray physically. I am wondering if I can put in the replacement drive, start FreeNAS and do the steps. I haven't started FreeNAS for the sole reason that my 11th drive cannot be reconnected to my mobo.

 

[SweetAndLow]

Hi,

I have read the manual but my situation is different. I can't have all 11 drives plugged into the HBA and start FreeNAS to disconnect the drive from GUI before removing it from the tray physically. I am wondering if I can put in the replacement drive, start FreeNAS and do the steps. I haven't started FreeNAS for the sole reason that my 11th drive cannot be reconnected to my mobo.

Yes that works, double check it works with encryption though.

 

[darkconz]

Yes that works, double check it works with encryption though.

Can somebody please shed some light this will work with encryption as well?

Thanks.

 

[joeschmuck]

You have nothing to worry about, read the user manual section 8.1.10.1 on how to replace an encrypted drive, do not worry about off-lining the failed drive, it's covered for if the drive is installed and if it's not.

 

[DrKK]

A couple of us would like to know: By what mechanism did low-voltage, low-power drive cables get so hot that they caught fire, and/or fused motherboard/HBA ports into an "unusable state".

Also, pictures.