glenncol Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 (edited) Hi all I am trying ot add a WD Black NVME drive as a cache drive and getting a weirdd issue . I was using this drive in a USB3 case for a little while and thought i would whack into the HP Gen 8 as a cachee drive, before putting it in to the Gen i deleted the partition in Winddows , created the partition but did not format, i then put the drive in a NMVE to PCIE adaptor and ran it in Unraid. The drive recongnizes but fails Preclear, if i assign to the cache pool and start the array the FS is showing as auto and i cannot seen to change it anywhere. I am unable ot format or mount the drive, i have attached the log for the drive itself Edit: looking at the settings for the cache pool the drive's Partion Format is unknown log.txt Edited March 17, 2022 by glenncol Add more info Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted March 17, 2022 Share Posted March 17, 2022 Have you tried setting the file system type BEFORE starting the array? I would also suggest that you deleted any existing partitions first as Unraid normally wants to do the partitioning itself of any drive it is going to use. Quote Link to comment
glenncol Posted March 18, 2022 Author Share Posted March 18, 2022 17 hours ago, itimpi said: Have you tried setting the file system type BEFORE starting the array? I would also suggest that you deleted any existing partitions first as Unraid normally wants to do the partitioning itself of any drive it is going to use. Hi thank for your response. I deleted the portions completely and got to set the file system to btrfs , I got the format button , hot format and it failed to format and the drive disappeared , I had to get over the same steps again and when I hit format , it came back complete but actually did not format. Restating the unit the drive came up as unmountable again Quote Link to comment
podilamaya Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 @glenncol, Have you manged to fix the problem ? I experiancing same issue with WD back 500GB drrive as cache. Quote Link to comment
taulen Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Experiencing the exact same issue with a WD Blue 500gb nvme disk in a pcie adapter. Hopefully someone knows a solution for this ? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted May 24, 2022 Share Posted May 24, 2022 Please post the diagnostics. Quote Link to comment
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