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Is there a way to confirm the dd or preclear -A worked properly?

I ended up messing up my unRAID install on my flash drive so I scrapped it all and started 100% from the beginning. Will I need to do the dd command still? How does the process differ if I basically just started over? I installed 4.7b1 and I have started the preclear with -A I'm assuming I can pretty much follow the configuration tutorial (http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial) from there? Do things change since I used the -A option? Thanks for the help, Peter et al. I really appreciate it.

Ok so if I were to take option 2 that you listed, how would I proceed? Should I follow the process here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=10326.0 ?

I'm running mostly macs (HTPC, others), would I benefit from going to 5b?

I'm a little confused about jumpers. I just setup my system, added two EARS drive, precleared both, set one as parity and other to the array and I am now in the process of transferring data... should I have put jumpers on them first? Should I stop my transfer, start over and put jumpers on or are they not 100% necessary?

It seems the device I used was trying to connect to had multiple partitions. When trying to mount the one that fdisk found it gave me problems but after checking unMENU main page and finding that there were multiple listed (sdd, sdd1, sdd2) for a single drive, I simply tried each one until I was able to mount successfully. I'm in the process of transferring data so it appears everything is working as expected. Just to re-iterate, Spectrums line: mount -r -t hfsplus /dev/sdd2 /mnt/imported_files seemed to do the trick. Thanks again for all the help, everyone!

I see my two drives labeled Linux, one labeled W95 FAT32 and one labeled EFI GPT.

The util fdisk is not supported by GPT is what I get when I pipe through grep.

It's a USB drive if that helps

Need some help. Trying to move some data over that is on a mac formatted drive. Can anyone give me some insight on how to mount it so I can then follow the direction in the configuration tutorial? I've given my shot at Google but can't find a solution. Thanks, guys!

Oops, sorry guys! 576 minutes, indeed... misread it myself also! I knew hours sounded extremely long. Thanks for the suggestions. I'll probably leave the parity as it is and simply start moving data.

Couldn't find an answer searching the forum, hopefully someone can help me out. I just put together my box and ran the preclear script on my first 2 drives. I assigned one to Disk1 and one to Parity. Do I need to wait for the parity rebuilding to finish now before I can copy data over? I'm thinking I should have done that before assigning the parity... anything I can do at this point? If I stop the parity, copy data over, then restart the parity building will it cause problems? Parity rebuild is estimated to take 576 hours so I didn't want to wait to get all my data over. I'm holding off on touching anything until I get some advice from someone much more advanced than myself. Thanks!