February 7, 201016 yr So my motherboard went to heck. I had a total of 9 drives, six were controlled by the motherboard and three were controlled by a Paradise controller. All drives are presented to Unraid as just a drive, no fancy htings being done by any of the controllers. I have another motherboard but to install it I have to rip out the PSU, old motherboard, and hte connections to all the drives. My question is, can I just rip it all out, put the new stuff back in and connect all the drives willie-nillie to the old paradise card and the ports in the new mb controller? I saw one post that said I should take a snap shot of which drives are in which slot so I can tell Unraid wher to connect each drive in the future.. This is not possible since hte MB is toast and I cannot get at that info anymore. How should I preceed... I hope to do this tonight.
February 7, 201016 yr You should be fine to do it. When unRAID starts back up it might actually tell you what drives were supposed to be where in the list. It is advised that you take a screen shot when this is all done and keep it so you know exactly where the drives go next time. If for some reason unRAID does not tell you were drives go then you can assign them one at a time. if one show up unformatted it is the parity drive. All other drives will have there formatting and data still there. Once they are all assigned and if they are not in the same order as before you will have to redo the user shares section so that data is written to the correct drive.
February 8, 201016 yr So my motherboard went to heck. I had a total of 9 drives, six were controlled by the motherboard and three were controlled by a Paradise controller. All drives are presented to Unraid as just a drive, no fancy htings being done by any of the controllers. I have another motherboard but to install it I have to rip out the PSU, old motherboard, and hte connections to all the drives. My question is, can I just rip it all out, put the new stuff back in and connect all the drives willie-nillie to the old paradise card and the ports in the new mb controller? I saw one post that said I should take a snap shot of which drives are in which slot so I can tell Unraid wher to connect each drive in the future.. This is not possible since hte MB is toast and I cannot get at that info anymore. How should I preceed... I hope to do this tonight. Initially do not assign the drive you think is the parity drive. You should be able to start the array without it. As already mentioned, if a data drive shows as unformatted it is likely to be the parity drive. Don't press the "format" button. When you can see all the data drives, then stop the array and assign the parity drive. Joe L.
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