So I swapped my hardware and my drives, booted up, I had to re order all my drives, but I had a screen shot of their assignments so that is easy enough.

 

Problem is I can't start the array because even though I've put all the drives where they belong, the slots still say 'Wrong" these were the ones that were on the 16 port raid controller.

 

I have no option to start the array, so I am guessing I have to do a New Config? Or is there another way?

 

Thanks

 

Everyone must be having dinner, lol.

Sometimes different controllers can pass different drive ID's. Are you sure the screenshots match what you see now identically, letter for letter?

 

Probably ought to attach diagnostics, both from you old setup, and the new rig.

Yes I have matched the disks now so they correlate to my screen shot. I can't do a diag from my old rig as its been dismantled. I can upload one from the new rig if you like, but I am pretty positive doing a New Config at this point is my only option.

Here are two images, one of the drives before and one after.

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/grlu9nmya2s9viq/monster%20unraid%20server%20drive%20setup%20Jan%2011%202017.jpeg?dl=0]https://www.dropbox.com/s/grlu9nmya2s9viq/monster%20unraid%20server%20drive%20setup%20Jan%2011%202017.jpeg?dl=0

 

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/4ddxpt8hsia3a24/monster%20unraid%20server%20new%20hardware%20drive%20config%20Jan%2011%202017.jpeg?dl=0

The screenshots show it is exactly like johnathanm said

Sometimes different controllers can pass different drive ID's. Are you sure the screenshots match what you see now identically, letter for letter?

They don't match exactly. They just match partly. After doublechecking that you have assigned them correctly, New Config is what you will have to do. You can check the parity is valid box so it won't redo parity.

OK thanks, that's what I thought.

 

 

Yup New Config did it, reassigned the drives, clicked 'parity is valid' all good now, thanks for the help.

You ought to do a parity check, to make sure.

 

To make sure of what? All I did was swap the drives from an old server to a new one, why would or should that affect parity?

To make sure of what? All I did was swap the drives from an old server to a new one, why would or should that affect parity?

It shouldn't, that's the point. Do a non-correcting check, if it comes up with errors, you know to stop using the array until you can pin down any issues.