I went through and did the trust the array option and did a parity check without issue.  At this point I had the array at the same place as before I ever did anything at all right?  All original drives, parity good, array working without issue, I would assume a super.dat that was accurate and correct.

 

At that point, I stopped the array, took out disk2 added the new drive and rebooted.  The array at that point had a red button on disk2 as it was missing.  I then went to devices, unassigned parity, assigned the new drive to be parity, assigned old parity to be disk2.  Just like the wiki says.

 

At this point the array showed red on parity and red on disk2, and start was not an option.  Per the wiki, I should have been able to start the array, it would then have gone through the swap-disable procedure.  As the start button was greyed out, what option did I have to run swap-disable?  Did I do something wrong?

 

So instead, I decided to just get my array up and running by hitting restore, and format.

 

If I did something wrong please let me know.  I don't expect to have to do this again anytime soon, as the parity is now 1TB, but I would like to know how to do it properly and actually get it to work.

 

thanks

dave

I went through and did the trust the array option and did a parity check without issue.  At this point I had the array at the same place as before I ever did anything at all right?  All original drives, parity good, array working without issue, I would assume a super.dat that was accurate and correct.

 

At that point, I stopped the array, took out disk2 added the new drive and rebooted.  The array at that point had a red button on disk2 as it was missing.  I then went to devices, unassigned parity, assigned the new drive to be parity, assigned old parity to be disk2.  Just like the wiki says.

It sounds like you did the right thing so far.

At this point the array showed red on parity and red on disk2, and start was not an option.  Per the wiki, I should have been able to start the array, it would then have gone through the swap-disable procedure.  As the start button was greyed out, what option did I have to run swap-disable?  Did I do something wrong?

It might have needed you to ckeck the ckeckbox below the start button to enable it...

So instead, I decided to just get my array up and running by hitting restore, and format.

 

If I did something wrong please let me know.  I don't expect to have to do this again anytime soon, as the parity is now 1TB, but I would like to know how to do it properly and actually get it to work.

 

thanks

dave

Glad you are running... Just hate to learn of anybody pressing "restore" and losing the contents of a drive.  There was an older version of unRAID where the parity swap did not work properly, that is why I asked what version you were on.  It was much earlier than your version.  I know it works, since I used it once it was fixed on my own array... and it took a very long time to do the swap process.

 

Joe L.

Gotta love Seagate, they received my dieing drive and shipped my replacement drive in the same day.

 

Too bad they pretty much dropped their 5 year warranty.

 

dave