Stuck removing a failed hard drive?

sonicm

HI,

I purchased Drive-pool a few weeks ago and have been using it for a month or so with no issues. This week one of my drives started the show the tale-tale signs that it's about to fail (loud clicking). I took the opportunity to start the remove drive process. However, the drive failed during the process and now the interface is reading "This drive is currently being removed from the pool. This can take a while. Do not shut down the server" but the drive has already failed and is no longer in the system. How can I reset this as it seems to also be blocking me from writing to the pooled drives. The version I am using is 1.0.0.5933 (BETA M4).

Many thanks

Mike

MikeWI

Physically remove the drive and then remove it from DP.  If there are any unduplicated files on the drive, you'll need to try to recover them or they're gone.  To recover the files, don't just plug the drive back in (leaving out the shutdown reboot etc) or DP will add it right back to the pool.  Personally, I'd plug into another PC and try to copy the files off that way.

sonicm

Hi thanks for the response.

I have removed the drive from the computer but when I load up it says "This drive is currently being removed from the pool. This can take a while. Do not shut down the server". The drive itself is no longer in the computer and windows does not report it. However, drive pool still thinks its trying to remove it?

Thanks.

MikeWI

Ok, time for me to run away with my tail between my legs and defer to the experts.  Luckily that didn't happen to me when a drive failed.

Shane

Hi sonicm, please contact Alex via http://stablebit.com/contact about this bug.

sonicm

Thanks Shane, I've send the support request email off.