I have rebuilt my DX4000 but I had to use drives that are not on the whitelist due to availability. So I have 2 original drives and 2 new drives using drive enabler. I I perform a recovery will the system be able to recognise the drives?
How did you rebuild it? How would that differ from recovery?
It looks I managed to perform a recovery adding the drive p/n to the whitelist both on usb stick as well as the recover DVD, however having had 3 original drives and 1 not original I cannot be 100% sure that the success was due to the update of the whitelist.xml files or simply because the RAID was rebult starting from the original 3 drives.
If you have the log file from the recreate thumb drive it should list the drives used.
Do you manage to understand what happened looking at the attached logfile (I didn’t!)
thanks ServerRecovery.pdf (83.9 KB)
There is a much better log file in the wdrecovery folder on that thumb drive
2017.01.28 12:27:59 - INFO - RaidCfg64 detected 2 drives
2017.01.28 12:27:59 - INFO - RaidCfg64 drive WD-WCAVY71xxxxx: port=2
2017.01.28 12:27:59 - INFO - RaidCfg64 drive WD-WCAVY71xxxxx: port=3
2017.01.28 12:27:59 - INFO - Matched drive 0 serial WD-WCAVY71xxxxx model WDC WD2002FYPS-02W3B0 with white list entry Enterprise Storage 2 TB
2017.01.28 12:27:59 - INFO - Matched drive 1 serial WD-WCAVY71xxxxx model WDC WD2002FYPS-02W3B0 with white list entry Enterprise Storage 2 TB
2017.01.28 12:27:59 - INFO - Checking RAID status (2): Volume Good
2017.01.28 12:28:16 - ERROR - Failed to get disk data
2017.01.28 12:28:16 - INFO - cscript.exe //NoLogo C:\wdrecovery\partutil.vbs -FindData
2017.01.28 12:28:22 - INFO - partutil.vbs output
Number of disks: 2
Disk Index: 0
Scanned disk 0
then this was not the memory stick I used for the recover I was mentioned, I actually used 4 Tb drives, sorry. Also after a more careful check I think that thumb drive was for the RAID recreate, not the recover.
The one I used to recover a failed install reported this after having modified the whitelist:
2017.03.31 18:45:36 - INFO - Matched drive 3 serial WD-[Deleted-Privacy] model WDC WD4000FYYZ-01UL1B3 with white list entry Enterprise Storage 4 TB
This 01UL1B3 was not in the original whitelist but it was installed as replacement using the WD drive enabler. Than due to a Windows issue I had to perform a recover and before starting it I added the drive to all the whitelist files I found both on the memory stick as well as the DVD. It looks it worked.
What I pasted above was from my recovery thumb drive. The one you pasted was done on 10 April 2017
the recreate logs are different but I do not have one handy
OK, understood. Anyway the most important information is that it looks like that amending the whitelist appropriately a recover with non standard disks might work as well.
