Hi.  One of my kids pulled out a drive out of my UnRaid box (it has hot swap trays).  UnRaid marked the drive as failed.  I pushed the drive back in and now UnRaid sees the drive and says it's new and wants to rebuild it.  Can I just skip that whole process and tell unRaid that the drive is OK?  I would still do a parity check afterwards.

 

Thanks. - Jeff

Hi.  One of my kids pulled out a drive out of my UnRaid box (it has hot swap trays).  UnRaid marked the drive as failed.  I pushed the drive back in and now UnRaid sees the drive and says it's new and wants to rebuild it.  Can I just skip that whole process and tell unRaid that the drive is OK?  I would still do a parity check afterwards.

 

Thanks. - Jeff

For it to be marked as invalid, a write to it must have failed,

therefore it IS NOT OK, IT IS NOT VALID. 

 

If you force it back, it will likely have file or file system corruption of some kind.

 

Let unRAID re-construct the drive.  It will let parity in combination with all the other disks correctly write the disk with all the data, including what was not correctly written.

 

Joe L.

Thanks for the reply.  I will have it rebuild itself.