bobcooper79

Hi Jonathanm, You are correct that I was thinking it would handle hot swap. It was after a complete shutdown and power up that the 11th disk became readable (no disrespect on your instructions I had not read your post with the instructions until after) . I am now trying to learn the Krusader docker tool as I mentioned in the post to Trurl. Could use some guidance there. Thanks!

Hi Trurl, Sorry for the delay in responding. I have been on vacation and have now gotten things up and running. It took a bit but I got the Docker installed and have been trying to use Krusader to copy files from my other unraid server. I am not comfortable with Krusader yet but attempting to learn it. I have copied some of the files to Disk 1 but I think I need to set up some new shares to facilitate using the entire array. tower-diagnostics-20180828-1418.zip

I have tried placing a brand new 6 tb in the bay and the system does not recognize them either?

That is the underlying problem. When I place either of the 2 drives (original 2 tb or the precleared 6 tb) in the physical bay in which the 2 tb originated I cannot get the system to recognize the drives

Yes, I can not screen capture the drop down. The only drives available in the dropdown for array assignment are the ones I am showing in the list.

My newly precleared 6 tb data drive is not available as a drive to select? Nor is the original 2 tb that I replaced?

How can I get the precleared 6 tb in the state to be formatted?

As stated in the original post. I replace the drive in the physical machines 2nd bay which turned out to be identified as data disc 2 with a 6tb drive. I then ran the preclear process and when the process completed I stopped the array and then put the original 2 tb drive back in . The reason being I wanted the new data drive to be data disc 1 in the array (I am anal in that way). When I went to replace the 6 tb with the previous 2tb and start the array the system did not mount or recognize the original 2 tb drive. When I stopped the array and placed the just precleared 6 tb drive and started the array, the system did not mont or recognize the 6tb drive.

I am not able to mount the 6tb drive.

I believe I followed the instructions from the forum to do the preclear process. However after successfully replacing the parity drive with the 6tb driver as shown in the screen print. It as after that when I replaced the 2tb drive from bay 2 with the 6tb drive in order to mount it and run preclear. I have attached the successful preclear log of that new data drive for your review. Disk Drive preclear results Disk 3.docx

No it did not allow me to recognize the newly precleared disk or the 2tb disk that I had removed because I only have 12 bays. Which was the original start of this Topic.

I did not want to place data on the Tower until I had capacity for more data. Much more data in fact as I have a synology server with 8 4tb drives with 1700+ BRD Movies and 100k+songs. I would also like to have it backed up.

I did! The fact that I am not able to mount the 6tb drive I precleared or the drive which I replaced to be able to mount it has me concerned. I am new to the unraid as it was built by someone else and I had purchased the servers from them. I have been trying to give myself a crash course in unraid over the past week and thought I was making progress. The Tower only has capacity for 12 drives. Below is what my rebuild now looks like. I assume I am going to have to wait another 2 days for this to complete and then I will need to try and put in 6 tb. drive I precleared again Very dejected at this point.

I have the parity drive built. It took 2 days to run through preclear and then update the parity. I then replaced data disk 2 with another 6tb wd red and it took 2 days to preclear. At this point I would be happy to just have the system recognize the 6TB drive I had precleared. Did removing the freshly precleared 6 tb drive before another step now make it such that the system cannot recognize it?

The unraid is almost full and I will copy the data from it to the Tower. Then perform an upgrade of the OS and space on the Unraid. I have 4 more WD Red 6tb to upgrade the unraid with.