June 16, 20233 yr So....I probably went about this the wrong way to begin with, but... I replaced my parity drive with a larger drive to then at a later point in time add another larger drive to increase capacity. As it was rebuilding parity, I accidently disconnected (loose cable, bumped) another drive and it became "disabled". With that drive disabled, rebuilding the parity on the new drive paused and wouldn't start. I read that in order to re-enable the disabled drive I would need to stop array, unassign, start maintenance, stop, then reassign...but that put that drive in "New Device" status. I haven't tried starting the array because of this, and as the parity never finished rebuilding. There is nothing wrong with that drive or any others including the old parity drive...I was just increasing capacity. I have now seen and been suggested to look at Tools > New Config or to remove the drive and try and mount elsewhere and copy the data. Restart the array and copy the data back. I looked at New Config but honestly the wording is intimidating and I don't want to continue and mess things up further. In the above screen shot, Parity is also showing as a "New Device" but that is the old Parity drive that I reinstalled, with the idea to just rebuild disk 5 from the old parity...but when it showed up as New Device I aborted that idea. Any help would be greatly appreciated
June 16, 20233 yr Community Expert New Config will just accept all the disks just as they are and optionally (by default) build parity on any disks assigned to parity slots. If you are reasonably sure everything is OK just New Config with the new parity and let it build. Be careful with connections. Post Diagnostics so we can see how things are going. If any data drive shows as unmountable when you start wait for further instructions.
June 16, 20233 yr Author 14 minutes ago, trurl said: New Config will just accept all the disks just as they are and optionally (by default) build parity on any disks assigned to parity slots. If you are reasonably sure everything is OK just New Config with the new parity and let it build. Be careful with connections. Post Diagnostics so we can see how things are going. If any data drive shows as unmountable when you start wait for further instructions. Yes I am sure everything is OK. What about "Preserve current assignments", I assume just leave as default, no. For diagnostics, the whole zip or specific log? Also, I am currently in safe mode. Should I reboot back to normal? Edited June 16, 20233 yr by khaotiq
June 16, 20233 yr Community Expert 15 minutes ago, khaotiq said: Preserve current assignments Preserve all assignments. New Config will let you change any assignments you wish before restarting. If you don't preserve all you will have to reassign all. Just preserve all and then you can change only the new parity drive. Doesn't matter about safe mode. We always want whole diagnostics zip
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