Hi folks,

 

I "was" running unraid on a Medion system. I had 4x 18 TB drives sitting in an Addonics external disk housing.

The external disk housing supports connecting via esata or usb. Since esata did not seem to work, I opted to connect using the usb port.

This setup entailed two PSU's and no proper control of hard drives, thinking of sleep, SMART settings etc.

So today I decided to try and fit the 4x 18 TB drives into the Medion cabinet. With some work this worked out.

Tried to reboot my Unraid system => the array could not start.

 

The next thing I did, was take the 4x 18 TB drives out of the Medion PC, and put them back into the Addonics (usb) disk housing.

As I had taken a photo, I could easily put the drives back in the same physical order.

Tried to reboot with the intention to check out the drive order, but => the array could not start.

 

The next thing I tried:

In the Main view, I can select any of the 4x 18 TB drives as either disk1, 2, 3 or 4.

As far as my logic goes I have a maximum of 16 different disk order configuration possibilities. (Some searching yields there are 24 combinations)

So I tried selecting each of the 4 drives as the first drive (while the 3 other drives remained unassigned / missing).

Each time, Unraid seems to do some thinking, but then returns "wrong"  next to the Disk number.

This of course can't be true, nevertheless I can not start my array.

 

What are my options of sorting this out?

Can I manually mount each drive to inspect some config file maybe holding the drive ID?

 

Thanks for helping out!

Edited October 13, 20241 yr by panini
correction

Tools - New config

25 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Tools - New config

A bit scary - and a solution of little words..

But it worked..

Edited October 13, 20241 yr by panini
correction