Hey Guys,

 

I replaced the cables for the raid card, and found that only some drives were not showing depending on which ports they were plugged into on the raid card.

 

Its about 10 years old and has had a hard life of data thrashing before being put in my unRAID rig. So its time to retire it by the looks of things.

 

I've replaced it with a M1115 flashed to IT mode and all my drives are populating again, however I have a new issue in that they are no longer being identified as the original drives (syslog attached). It appears that the Cache and Parity drives are intact however the WD drives do not seem to be referencing the original drives serial numbers?

 

it looks like dikkiedirk was correct when he said that the Areca Raid Card was not referencing the true serial numbers of the drives.

 

Can anyone advise on what the best course of action would be to "import" the drives correctly to reconstruct the raid without losing data.

 

My Cache drive is an SSD, and Parity drive is a different brand. All data drives are the same model 2TB WD Greens, so im certain i wont wipe out my parity or cache drive.

 

Thanks!

 

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I still think you have to set a New Config. Add the data disks to the slots 1 to 5, an start the array. Are you on unraid V5 or higher? If you are on a version lower than V5 you might to add them in the right, but I am not sure.

+1. Use New Config and assign the desired drives.

Just out of curiosity, if I was to reflash my USB stick with the latest beta would I be better of doing this now or after I re-create the pool?

well selecting the drives in a new order (with the parity and cache drive identified and correctly selected) did the trick.

 

Thanks for the assistance

Glad it worked. Going to the latest beta shouldn't be too difficult.