So....i was about to put in a new mobo.

Through ignorance on my part,  I did not understand about how the system assigns labels... I had labelled my disks sda,sdb,sdc,sdd.  But the systme has been reassigning labels..... to the extent that I don't know now which is my parity drive and which is not...

I thought that I could find out by process of elimination,  by unplugging a drive... but i am deeper into trouble...

 

The drive that I thought initially was my parity,  I plugged in,  and the system recognized a 'new parity drive'.  So I thought,  "silly me", unplugged that one and plugged in the other.... but this also showed as 'new parity drive'.

 

How do I find out ?  Sys log attached...

 

 

Please help..

 

log1.txt

I don't know if you have to go back to your old MoBo for this, but if your flash contents are exactly the same and you have not performed a "New Config" utility, unRAID should suggest to you which drive should be parity, which should be Disk1 and so on and so forth. Are you connecting all the drives from the original array? Needless to say, it is imperative to take a screenshot of the Main page of the webGUI whenever you make any changes.

 

I once almost ended up with the same scenario as you when I decided to format my flash and start afresh with a fresh unRAID install. Thats when I realized I didnt have a screenshot. Thankfully I had made a backup of my flash, so I re-copied the contents, made the flash bootable and came back online with the old config. Then I took a screenshot and did whatever other nonsense I wanted to.

 

Additionally, there is no point in noting the sda, sdb business from what I have understood. Linux readjusts those assignments, but Disk1, Disk2 etc are always appended to the array config.

Assign all drives as data drives. The drive that appears as unformatted is the parity drive.

oK...so it happens that I took a screen shot, when i reported an issue in a previous thread.  So I am rebuilding my parity with what I think is the correct drive.

 

Thanks.