drgambit

Thanks a lot for your help, I really appreciate it. I'm looking on fdisk and I see that the other two drives are starting at sector 2048 and not 64... I'm going to try to preclear the drive to see if that helps...

Argh, yes they do contain files already... I was doing a rolling migration from my older server. They weren't shucked drives... I'm curious, how did you find out that was the larger drive? Is there another file I missed? The smart output looked almost exactly the same... I take it there's a tool I can use that empties a drive for another one?

Hello, I'm having a problem setting up parity for the first time, and I'm getting the 'Disk in parity slot is not biggest' message... I have searched the forums and I can't seem to find an answer to my problem... All three drives are 4tb seagate ironwolf NAS drives, and all appear to be the same size: /dev/sdb: max sectors = 7814037168/7814037168, HPA is disabled /dev/sdc: max sectors = 7814037168/7814037168, HPA is disabled /dev/sdd: max sectors = 7814037168/7814037168, HPA is disabled I have attached a diagnostic file because I don't know what else is wrong... is there something I'm missing? nagato-diagnostics-20210503-2142.zip