If I re-arrange some cabling in my server will this cause any drive issues?  If so all I would have to do is re-assign the drives to the slots they were before then start the array correct?

 

For example I have 6 drives connected to my mobo right now but I want to disconnect two of them and plug them into my Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8.  

 

I will have to re-assign those two drives under the devices tab correct?

you may have to use the devices page to assign the drives to their respective slots in the array aftet you move the cables.

So I just need to make sure I assign them like this, right?

I just re-arranged some cabling and moved some disks around and it says PARITY is valid.  However if you look at the screenshot from above disks 5 and 6 are now actually disks 1 and 2 but unraid still shows them as 5 and 6, is there away to change this?

Just put them back on the devices page.

 

If you want to move the hard drives to different disks then you need to do an initconfig to reset the array.

 

Peter

 

 

If you want to move the hard drives to different disks then you need to do an initconfig to reset the array.

 

Peter

 

 

How do I do this, and will it have to rebuild the parity?

Is this what I have to do?

 

1 - Stop the array

2 - Open telnet window and type "initconfig"

3 - Refresh browser.  All drives should show blue.

4 - Start Array (parity check in progress)

 

I already moved my drives to where I want them and assigned them to there original slots

Is this what I have to do?

 

1 - Stop the array

2 - Open telnet window and type "initconfig"

3 - Refresh browser.  All drives should show blue.

4 - Start Array (parity check in progress)

 

yes

I won't lose any data by doing this right?

I won't lose any data by doing this right?

no data lost, so long as a data drive does not decide to die

umm, now under devices unRAID it is showing as unregistered, how do I reenter my license?  

umm, now under devices unRAID it is showing as unregistered, how do I reenter my license?  

You put back your .key file and reboot.

First of all, unRaid will allow you to swap 2 disks between 2 in use slots. You just have to click a check box to start the array. Second, if you want to do wholesale rearranging, you can stop the array, rearrange the disk order, and then use the "Trust" procedure documented in the wiki.  No new parity sync required!

 

Your .key file needs to be in the config directory for your license to work. If you have more than one, make sure only one has the .key extension. I think unRaid just uses the first file it finds with that extension.

thanks guys, it is all working now and building parity. 

 

Thanks again

I have no clue what you are doing. You post that you are rearranging the hardware but you put the disk (slot) assignment back to original. Well, at that point it should have worked fine. So, you must have done something else strange at the same time, which I would say your post about the key file missing highy supports.

 

Peter

it was there, I just had to reboot and then everything worked fine

 

thanks