jbuszkie

Ok  I did the above steps and I seen to be working ok.  (parity 2 is in the process of rebuilding)
 
caveats:
This documentation needs to be updated:  It's pre 6.12 and the mdX device numbers have changed to mdXp1 for 6.12
The Clear Drive script as I had loaded in User Scripts plugins is not working for my unraid.  The script used pre 6.12 nomenclature.
The procedure calls for unmounting the drive before doing the zeroing.. 
umount /mnt/diskX dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/mdX status=progress Again the mdX needs to be mdXp1
And this worked fine until I tried to shutdown the array.
The shutdown script didn't like the fact that the drive was already unmounted and looped trying to unmount that drive.  I believe this is a bug
and the shutdown script should check to see if the drive is already unmounted...
 
Now one can just do a new config make all the changes you want and just have it reconstruct the parity..  but even though my system is healthy and I'm sure it would have been fine...  I'm paranoid and wanted to be protected at (almost) all times!
 
Thanks for the input, guys!
 

Thanks!
 
I just found this in the FAQ
It mentions that I SHOULD see "no balance found on /mnt/cache"
 
What was weird is I didn't see anything on the main page that said that a balance was in progress like I do when I add/replace a regular drive to the array...
So I was a little worried...
 
Glad all is good!