some help needed

after migration, I had setup my 4 x 3tb drives in my array. big mistake.

I want to use #4 drive empty for parity drive

when I stop array, unassign drive#4 and assign as parity

I get this error Too many wrong and/or missing disks!

what do I need to do to fix this(no data as been copied on this drive yet)

Thanks

Maz

First, take a screenshot for reference to make sure you get the disk assignments right.  Then in the unraid web interface, stop the array, select the Utilities tab and use the "New Config" utility.  This will discard your previous disk assignments and allow you to reassign the correct 3 data disks and use your drive #4 as parity.  After making the new disk assignments, it will calculate parity when you first start the array.

 

Be careful to make the correct disk assignments in the new configuration, if you assign the wrong disk as parity then the data on it will be overwritten.  This also assumes you do not have any data on disk #4, as anything on it will be lost during this process.

thanks dave_m

thats exactly what I was missing

I added also my cache drive at the same time I addded the parity

I hope it wont create a problem

Parity check...5.5 hourssssssszzzzzzz

anything special you want to share about the cache drive?

Thanks

thanks dave_m

thats exactly what I was missing

I added also my cache drive at the same time I addded the parity

I hope it wont create a problem

Parity check...5.5 hourssssssszzzzzzz

anything special you want to share about the cache drive?

Thanks

 

Only five? My first parity check took over forty eight hours, granted I was still copying masses of data over to my server.