February 12, 201115 yr So I made some hardware changes and plugged the wrong discs in the wrong SATA slots... I booted the drive, found the error and fixed it, but it still says I have an error. am I screwed?!?! HELP! I have lots of data.. I have 4 drives in array: 1 sata1- drive 1 2 SATA2- drive 2 3 SATA3- Drive 3 4 Sata 4- parity? Please help! Reed
February 12, 201115 yr hi, please add a screenshot and syslog to your thread so that we can see what is going on ... putting drives in the wrong slot is not a biggie normally you can reassign them on the drives page ... but without more info we don't know what is happening to your system
February 12, 201115 yr Author Ok, first of all, THANK YOU for responding quickly sacretagent... I figured it out and it was PURELY my fault. I was asleep at the wheel. Bottom line, Im a moron and essentially wired the SATA drive backward (up to down vs down to up)... I was adding a new drive and needed to pull the sata cables and then just put em back wrong. Now I need to take a deep breath before I go and start playing with the new drive... Good news is I put them in the right slots, and everything is fine... I was basically having a nervous breakdown. Ok, now time to go figure out why my main PC is bluescreening on me. FML Reed
February 12, 201115 yr No worries ... Please change your title to SOLVED in the first post have nice day
February 12, 201115 yr hi, In future, I believe as I'm going from memory, it doesn't really matter the order of the cables. (It makes it easier though) When the disk is not the right one you can assign another device to go in that disk slot and I believe if you have the correct one it will go green. Correct me someone if I'm wrong but I believe that is what happens. Been a while since I plugged in a new controller and rewired the hdds. Josh
February 12, 201115 yr hi, In future, I believe as I'm going from memory, it doesn't really matter the order of the cables. (It makes it easier though) When the disk is not the right one you can assign another device to go in that disk slot and I believe if you have the correct one it will go green. Correct me someone if I'm wrong but I believe that is what happens. Been a while since I plugged in a new controller and rewired the hdds. Josh You are exactly correct. You can play SATA cable shuffle and once the server boots just go to the devices page and match up the drives to their proper disk# pull-down and then they'll go green and you can start the array. The main page will even show you the expected disk serial number info in italics so you know which one is assigned where. Peter
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