November 2, 20241 yr I've probably gone about this the wrong way it seems. But I can't get my disks to be recognized correctly after shucking them out of the enclosure. I had precleared and did data rebuilds on them after swapping out the old disks, but I did this all via USB. Unfortunately that seems like the wrong move, cause the serial number changes and the drive is not recognized when you connect it via the SATA ports... Anyways, I've not done anything up to this point except for `Tools > New Config` a few times to try different orders of drives. This is what it looks like before starting up (sdf, sdb, sdc, and sdd are the new drives - I verified via the Power On Hours that sdd is indeed the parity drive, but all the other drives sdb/sdc/sdf are data drives and not sure which order they go in, if that matters). After starting up it looks like this: Also I've looked in the terminal and can see that the data is intact on the drives, they each have data, and the folders are identical to my shares. So i'm confused why the partition would not be valid (at least according to unraid). Any help would be appreciated! I am at the limit of my knowledge here... tower-diagnostics-20241101-2144.zip
November 2, 20241 yr Community Expert Some USB enclosures are not transparent, I would recommend mounting the disks with UD, copying the data, reformatting with the GUI and restoring the data, rebuilding one disk at a time may also work.
November 2, 20241 yr Author 2 hours ago, JorgeB said: Some USB enclosures are not transparent, I would recommend mounting the disks with UD, copying the data, reformatting with the GUI and restoring the data, rebuilding one disk at a time may also work. Oof that is a lot of work...but I can do that - do you know the reason that this happens? What does transparent mean exactly? If I can see the data on them after shucking wouldn't that mean they are somewhat transparent?
November 2, 20241 yr Community Expert 13 minutes ago, mycarrysun said: What does transparent mean exactly? It means they don't pass the correct disk info, it's different than when you connect the disk directly, for example the partition size.
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