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.

The intent was to get this Tower updated with expansion of the data drives in place. I have another unraid server that is actually newer and more horsepower than the Tower, it has 4 3tb drives. I want use the tower as purly a backup to my newer unraid.

Attached, please find the diagnostics file. tower-diagnostics-20180816-1910.zip

I corrected my post. the 2tb drive was removed from physical bay 2 not one.

I have upgraded my Tower parity drive from a 2tb drive with a new WD Red 6tb parity drive. I then removed an older 2tb (disk 2) from bay 2 and replaced the drive with another new red wd 6tb to run a preclear step. I ran the preclear process and it finished successfully today. I then removed the precleared drive from bay 2 and placed the 2tb old drive back. Now when I restart the array the system does not find the previous data drive (2tB) and when I stop the array and place the 6TB back it does not recognize it either? How can I get the system to recognize either of the drives again?

Hi Jonathanm, Bingo! You were correct. The BIOS had reverted to checking for the drive not the USB. Now my question is was I correct in the thought that I could simply power don the system, swap out the parity drive with a newly purchased unformatted out of the box 6tb WD Red drive and the system would rebuild the parity on it? Just would like a confirmation before I try that again. As before, thanks very much for your help!

Hi Trurl, Today I purchased and installed addtional memory for the Tower. It installed and booted up fine. Was 2 GB, now 8GB. In addition I purchased a 6tb WD Red drive and wanted to replace the 2TB Parity drive. I powered down the system replaced the Parity Drive with the new WD 6TB and the system has not been able to boot up since even after returning the original Parity Drive. Can someone give me an idea of how to get the system back up? Thanks in advance for assistance.

How do I delete the docker image? I have issues with file paths in my Docker.

Is there a reason why the server is not showing up on the network? The UNRAID shown below is a different server. The one that has just gotten restarted is "TOWER". I need to copy the data from "UNRAID" to TOWER. What is thefastest way to do that? They are sitting beside each other and are on the same network. 10.0.0.111 and 10.0.0.113.

Would it be worth putting in an additional Parity drive or upgrading the existing parity drive to a bigger drive for future expansion? Please advise.

Hi Trurl and Jonathanm, Thank you both for the help! It looks like it is ready to go. This server is a bit old but it has literally not been up for the last 4 years. I am not sure if it is capable of some of the newer features that are available. Would you be able to let me know the options? Regards, Bob