I "believe" I followed the directions about adding a new drive?

 

1) stop array

2) power down system (clean)

3) unplug everything and add new hard drive to server box

4) plug everything back in and power on

5) Start the array

 

When starting the array Unraid does..."write zeros" and let in run overnight, in morning it was finished and then "format"(this was all within Unraid by the way).

 

6) then as suggested I ran a parity check after it said the new drive was ready (green ball), about 20 or 30 min in I just checked and it said "Parity updated  1013  times to address sync errors". I panicked and stopped the parity check.

 

So what did I do to screw it up? and what do I do to fix?

 

Also as a side note ALL other drive I went through the "preclear script" through a telnet session. This new drive was the only one I didn't do that process (NEVER AGAIN!) and just let Unraid do it for me.

 

I have learned my lesson...will ALWAYS do a "preclear" or maybe 2, but please help out a noob

 

Thank you

When was your last parity check before adding the drive ?  The errors do not necessarily need to come from the nee drive..

 

If you never do checks then parity can be totally worthless for months before you notice when a drive fails..

I did a parity check...about 5 days ago. All clear, no errors. I do monthly parity checks just like it is suggested to do

 

 

Well, you could always just make a new configuration file & rebuild the parity, although, are you 100% sure all your data drives are correct (excluding the new one)?

I know it is possible (in the last 5 days since parity check was good) but probably unlikely that something happened?

 

Also I turn it off each night (clean shutdowns). I always do it through the web interface button POWER DOWN where it says "Power down will activate a clean power down".

maybe a alternate question? I messed up and didn't follow my normal pattern of preclearing drives before hand (like suggested...I am dumb) can I NOW just use the preclear script on the new drive? A.K.A. follow my original pattern? Or does that mess things up further?

 

I am NOT picky with time, I can do as many preclears as needed to fix my stupid mess. What should I do?

 

Thank you all

maybe a alternate question? I messed up and didn't follow my normal pattern of preclearing drives before hand (like suggested...I am dumb) can I NOW just use the preclear script on the new drive? A.K.A. follow my original pattern? Or does that mess things up further?

 

I am NOT picky with time, I can do as many preclears as needed to fix my stupid mess. What should I do?

 

Thank you all

 

You can run the preclear after use, as all it does is completely write over & read the drive a couple of times, however, I wouldn't recommend using it while the drive is an active part of the array for obvious reasons (Starting off it'll destroy your file system and confuse the hell out of unraid).

You can run the preclear after use, as all it does is completely write over & read the drive a couple of times, however, I wouldn't recommend using it while the drive is an active part of the array for obvious reasons (Starting off it'll destroy your file system and confuse the hell out of unraid).

 

Joe has a check where preclear cant be run on a drive in the array anyways so hes safe there.

 

I would think the best course of action would be to do a new config and set it like it was before the addition(make sure to note which drives go to which slots). This should get you to how you were before. You will now be able to run preclear on the new drive. Once this is done, build parity, run a parity check, then add the drive. The adding part should take under a min if you preclear it.

 

Please wait till someone more experienced confirms before doing anything I suggested as I am still pretty new to this.

You can run the preclear after use, as all it does is completely write over & read the drive a couple of times, however, I wouldn't recommend using it while the drive is an active part of the array for obvious reasons (Starting off it'll destroy your file system and confuse the hell out of unraid).

 

Joe has a check where preclear cant be run on a drive in the array anyways so hes safe there.

 

I would think the best course of action would be to do a new config and set it like it was before the addition(make sure to note which drives go to which slots). This should get you to how you were before. You will now be able to run preclear on the new drive. Once this is done, build parity, run a parity check, then add the drive. The adding part should take under a min if you preclear it.

 

Please wait till someone more experienced confirms before doing anything I suggested as I am still pretty new to this.

 

This is also what I recommended above, although, I'm with this guy on the last line. I'm also very new to unraid.