I had a motherboard failure today and I want to swap it out. Now I don't have the exact order that my Hard Drives were in previously. What can I do? I'm sure swapping motherboards is a simple thing but w/o the disk order I feel I might be screwed. Any advice would be great!

 

Edit - Is there a file on the USB stick that will show me maybe?

I had a motherboard failure today and I want to swap it out. Now I don't have the exact order that my Hard Drives were in previously. What can I do? I'm sure swapping motherboards is a simple thing but w/o the disk order I feel I might be screwed. Any advice would be great!

 

Edit - Is there a file on the USB stick that will show me maybe?

 

As long as you know which one is the parity drive you can assign the data disks anywhere.  You will probably need to adjust the includes and excludes for the disk#'s that are on the Shares page of the Web GUI.

doesn't the system tell you which drives were where when you boot it up with them in the wrong positions?

 

Pretty sure it did for me when I swapped controllers.

Yea that what I'm worried about. I don't exactly remember which drive is my parity. I have an idea but I'm not sure. My UNRAID box has been put away and I haven't actually done any upgrades to it for 6-7 months. This is not good

Last resort status:

 

Remove the drives and hook them up to a Linux computer.  All of them should be readable except one.  That one is your parity drive.

That would be great if I had a linux box......yea i'm kicking myself right now. :'(

 

 

Waht if I hook it up to a windows box, could i tell that way?

Well it seems that I fixed the issue w/ the motherboard. Basically I needed to reset the CMOS, but not just once, multiple times any time I changed a piece of hardware. Stupid motherboard. And in the process, I seem to have lost a HDD.....just great.

Well it seems that I fixed the issue w/ the motherboard. Basically I needed to reset the CMOS, but not just once, multiple times any time I changed a piece of hardware. Stupid motherboard. And in the process, I seem to have lost a HDD.....just great.

You may just have a loose connector or cable to that drive... you might just try re-seating it.

 

Joe L.

I use the 5 in 1 bays and it seems one of the slots stopped working. I just happend to have another one that was empty, i put the HDD into that slot and it works now. Man what a day to end the year LOL....everything is working now. I do plan on putting in a new motherboard tomorrow thought. I can't stand this Abit POS.

I use the 5 in 1 bays and it seems one of the slots stopped working. I just happend to have another one that was empty, i put the HDD into that slot and it works now. Man what a day to end the year LOL....everything is working now. I do plan on putting in a new motherboard tomorrow thought. I can't stand this Abit POS.

As far as not knowing which drive is which...  Assign all but the parity drive.  If you have it correct, all will mount and be accessible.  if you get it wrong, one will show as "unformatted"  It is likely the parity drive.

 

As already mentioned, the config/super.dat file has a record of the drive serial numbers... It will show which go where when you reboot.

 

Joe L.

Thanks for for you help Joe! Happy New Years!