April 18, 20224 yr Oh boy. I have 2 parity drives and 6 disks (currently the 1st disk is the only thing with data from the Main screen). My 1st drive (nonparity) went out and is bad. I figure I might as well but a replacement 8tb, preclear it and then replace it. I put it in, but my 6th drive (640mb) wasn't detected and now when I mount it unraid thinks the 640 is a replacement for the 8tb and tosses and error. I guess now I need to remove the 640mb from the array, but then it'll rebuild the parity without it, but the 1st drive (nonparity) is still bad. The preclear software also doesn't see the new 8tb unassigned drive. How can I remove the 640gb, preclear the 8tb, and then rebuild the 1st drive with the new 8tb? Currently it looks like it's data-rebuilding disk 6 with the new 8tb drive (that used to be 640gb). I'm feeling like what I need to do is let it finish, then find a way to remove that 8tb drive from the array (dunno how), and then set it up to replace the 1st disk (the bad one).
April 19, 20224 yr Your "guessing" and "looks like" seems to be good to me. A backup would be great if you had one. Less parity, more backup, next time. Mr. Grey
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