My G8 Microserver has Grub installed on a micro SD Card stored inside the server.
It is booting from there and OMV itself is installed on a SSD connected to the SATA port which was meant to be used for the optical drive.
Was a bit tricky to setup, but that way I can use all 4 drive slots for my storage.
Next try with
openmediavault 7.0-17 and
openmediavault-md 7.0-4
Still no joy 
Logfile attached.
I tested in a VM before updating my productive system.
I am on openmediavault 7.0.16 and installed the MD plugin, same error as before.
Did a:
$ monit stop omv-engined
$ omv-engined -d -f 2>&1 | tee omv7.log.txtAny update appreciated.
Looks like an hardware issue with that drive.
Check the SMART status of the drive.
Next idea:
Shutdown and check/reseat/replace the SATA cables.
After power on again check the output of blkid
(Assignment device <--> /dev/sdx might have changed)
STOP that bullshit with the --create option.
This would create and initialize a blank new array.
Instead try:
mdadm --stop /dev/md127
mdadm --assemble --force --verbose /dev/md127 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd
Have a look here:
You do not need to install any kind of software to update the system rom.
Just use 7zip to extract the binary and upload via the iLO.
(e.g. "cp039540.exe" contains "CPQJ0613.684" , all system roms i had flashed have a size of 4.201.836 bytes)
I finally found the bill of all my components bought back in 11/2014, since then running 24/7.
Fractal Design Node 804
Enermax Triathlor 450W
ASROCK Z97M Pro4 (was my choice because of an Intel onboard NIC)
Intel Core i3-4160
2 * 8GB DDR3
4 * WD-Red 3TB (one of them has died and was replaced)
In 12/2019 I added a Toshiba 8TB NAS drive for (rsync) backup purposes.
Oh boy, it's almost 9 years old but running without any issues.
I've never seen such a (needless) complicated network setup.
You could do all of this with a OpenWRT based router and another one being used as "dumb" accesspoint.
Management would be easier and centralized, apart from fine(r) grained security settings.
Can you post the "smb.conf" from Openmediavault and
the one from your handcrafted Debian system ?
With the HP G8 Microserver you have an iLO.
What do you see on the remote console when booting the server ?
Mine looks like this:
Maybe you need an "iLO advanced License" to enable graphical mode for remote console, can't remember as I have one.
Can you try with OMV and a windows client ?
(just to make sure it is not an Apple thing)
Little overkill and doesn't look like a USB-Stick.
I thought about something more compact, similar to this:
Why not simply buy an USB <--> NVME Adapter ?
(You'll gonna need one anyway, sooner or later)
And you could convert an "unused" NVME-SSD into a real fast USB-Stick.
You might want to read the man page of wipefs
This could have saved you lots of time the full wipe and the array sync will have taken.
I used it once to remove some (very) old zfs signatures from my disks in an mdadm raid-5 array.
From the testdisk homepage (https://www.cgsecurity.org)
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If you have lost partition or strange problem with your hard disk partitions, run TestDisk to recover your data. TestDisk detects numerous filesystem including NTFS, FAT12, FAT16, FAT32, exFAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, BeFS, CramFS, HFS, JFS, Linux Raid, Linux Swap, LVM, LVM2, NSS, ReiserFS, UFS, XFS |
It IS a recovery tool.
And I had used it successfully for NTFS data recovery from a faulty harddrive.
Goto Services --> MiniDLNA --> Settings and push the "Rescan" button.
Have a look here, maybe you can decrease the resync time needed.
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-raid-increase-resync-rebuild-speed.html
Assuming that your firewall appliance is between the "internet" and your local network ...
If your firewall is doing what it's supposed to do, then no incoming traffic on any port (other than 22, 4443, 8080 and 8181) should be allowed.
How about UPNP on your firewall appliance ?
You're asking us about the (mis)configuration of your firewall appliance, you must be joking.
Do you have UPNP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play) enabled on your FPR device ?