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That procedure worked, I'm rebuilding Parity1 now with a 4TB and when that is done and stable I'll swap in another 4TB drive for Parity2. Thanks!

awesome, thank you

I feel like this is answered somewhere but my google-fu is lacking and I can't find the answer. I have 2 , 2TB parity drives in my unraid. Parity1 has started tossing SMART errors so I'm going to replace it. I have a 4TB drive I can replace it with. The process I was going to try is stop the array remove parity1 from the assignments. power off replace parity1 with a 4TB drive power on assign the 4TB drive as parity (at this stage I will have a 2TB and a 4TB parity drive, will that work?) let the parity rebuild eventually replace the other 2TB drive with a 4TB drive. Does that seem sane? Do I need to do anything special for replacing a failed parity drive vs a data drive? Thanks and sincerely sorry if this is answered somewhere already.

sorry I meant vfio-pci.ids which I had read was the preferred way to pass PCI devices to KVM

I'm still unable to get mine to find a USB root hub in the VMs. did you do anything outside of stubbing the device? I assume you just did the pci-id.vfio stubbing?

I would love to hear if you manage to get the vantec to work. It looks like such a great card and right now it's just sitting in my junk drawer.

I was never able to get that one to work, so I went on a spree lately and bought all of the mutlicontroller cards I could find that aren't the sonet. The only card I found that works is https://www.amazon.com/High-Point-PCI-Express-RocketU-1144D/dp/B015CQ8DCS/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=highpoint+usb&qid=1554312606&s=electronics&sr=1-1 which shows up as 4 asmedia controllers and works a treat.