Alright, so i finally made the change over to unRAID after a long time and my biggest fear may have come true. Previously i had Ubuntu desktop running as my daily driver with a MegaRAID LSI 9261-8i running (3) raid 6's with (8) drives each. All (3) virtual disc where Formatted ext4. When i first started configuring unRAID i had attempted to add a virtual drive (with data) to the array. I did not format the virtual drive for obvious reason but i did start the array. After a little trouble shooting i figured out that unRAID won't use the ext4 formatted drive and i would have to pull it out. i ended up using "Unassigned devices" to mount the drives directly and create SMB shares, HOWEVER, the virtual drive i orignally added to the array and started no longer shows a format. I'm not familiar with exactly what unRAID does when an array starts but... did i just nuke a third of my data? 

 

Thanks ahead of time to any help

If you just started the array then from what i read UNRAID did not do anything to the drives.     Did you get them reconnected back to your controller in the correct order?   If any of the drives got mixed up then I think that would lead to problems like what you  are seeing.

If you just added the drive to the array and then started it then the one thing unRAID WILL do is rewrite the partition table to the standard for unRAID (if it does not already conform).   The rest of the disk will be untouched so the data is still there but not accessible.    There are various disk recovery tools around that should be able to recover the partition table back to its original state.

Thanks for the Help! This should help a lot now that i know what the problem is.