[SOLVED] Newly installed 4 TB parity disk - Do I have a problem? - General Support (V5 and Older)

March 12, 201313 yr

Last week I upgraded from 4.7 to rc11 because I wanted to start using 4 TB disks.

The upgrade went fine. I ordered and pre-cleared (twice) a 4 TB Seagate drive. I shut down the system and removed the old parity disk, then rebooted the system, which correctly reported the lack of a parity drive. I re-assigned parity to the 4 TB drive and the system proceeded to rebuild parity on the new drive.

This all seemed to go just fine. The parity rebuild was successful and the system is online and reporting that the parity is valid. However, when I looked at the myMain screen from unmenu, in the first column labelled "St" to the right of the checkmark was the notation "HPA?". (Image attached).

I DO have a Gigabyte (GA-MA785G-UD3H) board but fortunately it is a late enough model that the BIOS has the option of disabling the "Backup BIOS Image to HDD." It is disabled and has always been disabled (It's default state.) I have 2 Supermicro SASLP-MV8 cards installed, but the 4 TB drive was attached to an onboard SATA port.

I'm wondering if this in an artifact. I have another 4 TB drive that arrived today and I was about to start preclearing it, prior to adding it as a data drive, but I'd hate to go through the process and then find that, for some reason I don't understand, I can't use it because it is larger than my parity drive.

I'm attaching a syslog, a screen capture of myMain and a capture of the Main screen which reports the size of the 4 TB drive as 3,907,018,532 bytes. Is that the proper size for a 4 TB drive under unRaid.

Thanks for any help offered.

Sorry. Forgot to add attachments. Now added