HeyheyUnkyPhil wrote:Hi PK_TS509,
I am sad to report that I had to use your post to solve an Add Disk failure on my new TS-410. Happy to report that it fixed my problem... well nearly fixed it.
The array is now 4 disks and 4TB as expected, but in the Web Admin interface it still shows as 3 Disks with the 4th Disk Unmounted. This is obviously wrong, as I can certainly see the full disk space and the lights on the NAS flicker as I would expect when disk access happens i.e. all 4 disk lights flash as I am used to seeing with RAID5 arrays.
So, I am wondering if you know how to fix the Web Admin Interface to tell the truth?
You seem to know what is going on under the hood. I assume using Linux skills. Unfortunately, I'm a very techie Windows person with only limited Linux skills. I will be asking QNAP for support, but thought you might be able to help solve this problem faster than they do.
Thanks for the post and hopefully your help.
Regards Phil
had the same problem after expanding...
I'm new to this whole QNAP NAS THING but here something that worked for me.
I added a 5th disk to my 4disk RAID 5 following the first post. it worked, but also showed 4+1 disk in the web interface.
Solution:
1.In /etc/storage.conf delete the single disk record completely. (in my case the disk /dev/sde3)
2.Then add the disk number to the “raid disks=" line.(in my case I only added ",5" )
After that it should show the right config in your webinterface.
[VOLUME 1]
device name = /dev/sde3
raid level = -2
raid disks = 5
spare raid disks =
status = -3
record_time = Thu Feb 11 10:58:33 2010
filesystem = 103
[VOLUME 2]
device name = /dev/md0
raid level = 5
raid disks = 1,2,3,4
spare raid disks =
status = 0
record_time = Thu Feb 11 10:58:33 2010
filesystem = 103
[Global]
Available Disk = 5
[VOLUME 5]
status = -3
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