hey

 

are having problems finding my hard drive.

set unraid up just as the 'initial setup' but when we need to assign hard disks find it good enough my HD

it continues to write that it is a new device ?

had it out and format into another machine to NTFS but still the same result

 

how do I fix it

 

best regards

 

easter

unRAID doesn't use NTFS drives in the array.  It uses ReiserFS, XFS, or BTRFS (assuming you are using unRAID 6).  It's recommended that you pre-clear a drive before putting it in the array - that will write zeros to the entire disk to clean it off before adding it to the array.  Try the Preclear Plugin, which is available via the must-have Community Applications plugin.  After pre-clearing your drive you can add it to the array, where unRAID will quickly format it to the default file system you've chosen (XFS is the system default).

 

Hope that helps, I wasn't quite sure what you were trying to do.

UnRAID will always think a drive it has not previously used is a New device.  On adding it to the array, unRAID will redo the partitioning to conform to what unRAID expects.  When the array is started you are given the option to format the disk to one of the supported file system types (default is XFS).  Not quite sure what you are expecting.

thanks for the help. the problem is now solved. it was because it is a brand new server setup and in this respect there is only one hard drive.

this HD I looked up as * PARITY *  and I could not get it to work .

but after I set it up as * DISC 1 * could be formatted and run now as it should.

 

missing now to put a * parity * hard drive on the server

 

how should I do this

 

thanks for you help

The parity drive is the drive that allows unRAID to protect the data contents of your system in the event of the failure of a data drive.  It will allow unRAID to emulate the contents of the failed data drive until you replace the failed drive.

 

The parity drive should be as large as or larger than, and as fast as or faster than any other hard drive in your system.  Running Preclear is still recommended to test out the new drive.  When that is complete stop the array, assign the new drive as the parity drive, and start the array.  unRAID will start a first time Parity Sync to build the parity drive.  This will take a while!