Can't Format External USB Drives


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I've managed to scrounge up an HP dual-Xeon computer that I'd like to use as an unRAID server (it's a monster!). So far I have it working with a 500 GB SSD cache drive, a 2 TB parity drive, and two 2 TB array drives. I have Shares configured on it so I can access it from the PCs in my house for media sharing and backing up to. 

 

Here's my problem:

 

The motherboard is an old one, so it doesn't see SATA drives bigger than about 2 TB. To get around this limit, I'm attempting to use  a pair of 6 TB drives in a USB NexStar RAID box, with the box configured so the drives are treated individually (not RAID or JBOD). UnRAID sees the drives and lets me mount them, but there doesn't see to be any way to format them. In addition, I'm getting this error message overlaid on the Unassigned Devices section of the Main page.

 

Warning: syntax error, unexpected '=' in Unknown on line 14 in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/include/lib.php on line 1399 
Warning: syntax error, unexpected '=' in Unknown on line 22 in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/include/lib.php on line 1399 
Warning: syntax error, unexpected '=' in Unknown on line 28 in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/include/lib.php on line 1399 
Warning: syntax error, unexpected '=' in Unknown on line 14 in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/include/lib.php on line 1399 
Warning: Illegal string offset 'DEVTYPE' in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/include/lib.php on line 1422 
Warning: syntax error, unexpected '=' in Unknown on line 28 in /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/unassigned.devices/include/lib.php on line 1399

 

I've attached a screenshot showing what it looks like. 

 

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Have I run into a limitation with unRAID or am I doing something wrong?

 

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! 

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