October 13, 201213 yr I have just begun to assign drives into my unRaid. My first hard drive identifies in the unRaid Menu. When I assign it as the parity drive, nothing happens. The drive is a 3TB WD Red Drive. I am running 5.0 rc8a. Interestingly, the drive serial number shows (sda) in its description. Does this mean something? Rebooting does not help.
October 13, 201213 yr Drives in Linux go sda, sdb, sdc... for SATA/SCSI drives. It would be hda, hdb, hdc... for IDE. So sda means it was the first SATA/SCSI drive recognized by Linux. If the only drive you have assigned is parity then nothing would happen when you start the array. The parity drive is not cleared and does not have a formatted partition so when you assign it there is nothing for unRAID to do if it is the only drive assigned. Now it is a different story if you have other drives assigned. When you assign a parity drive and you have data drives assigned unRAID will start a parity build process as soon as you start the array.
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