RichJacot Posted May 12 Share Posted May 12 I had a drive fail in the array. I had a spare so I'm thinking I'll just shut the array down and swap the drive out. BUT whenever I plug a drive in, the same connections as the failed one, and boot the system up, that parity drive drops off/goes missing. I unplug the one I used as a replacement and boot back up and the parity drive is back like normal. I thought there was an issue maybe with the replacement I was using so I ordered another drive, pre zero'd it and it's doing the same thing. Plug the new drive in, boot up, parity disappears. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? TIA Quote Link to comment
RichJacot Posted May 12 Author Share Posted May 12 I tried a different connector on the replacement drive and now it thinks the parity drive is one that is no longer in the system. I put stickers on all of the drives when they were installed and booted so I could see the IDs the system assigned, with the last four of their IDs, and 18CT is plugged in. Now even when I unplug the replacement drive it's showing the parity drive as 47CL, which is sitting next to me. I'm at a loss.... Quote Link to comment
RichJacot Posted May 12 Author Share Posted May 12 Well... Somehow the system changed/thinks the IDs are different than they were. I plugged the drive labeled 47CL back in and unplugged the drive labeled 18CT and it thinks it's 18CT in the main array screen. I selected it and selected the new drive from the dropdown to replace the failed drive 6. It's currently rebuilding from parity. A know for a fact I did NOT peel and move stickers. I have no idea how it got confused. Quote Link to comment
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