(SOLVED) Changed Flash drive - now disk assignments are lost

[jademonkee]

Hello, 

I changed the flash drive on my unRAID server this morning, following the instructions here: https://lime-technology.com/replace-key/

The process of changing the key was successful, however, my disk assignments were somehow lost in the process. 

Not realising this was a risk, I (stupidly) didn't take a screenshot of the assignments before I shut down the server. Further, as my old USB key is now blacklisted, I can't just boot back up to a working config. 

I don't want to just assign the disks willy nilly, in case it causes some data corruption, so I thought I'd ask for advice here before I do anything stupid.

Notes:

All 5 of my disks are appearing as unassigned devices, so I can see which one is the parity (not formatted) - does it matter what order the others are assigned?

Curiously, my cache drives appear to be correctly assigned. 

A screenshot is attached (ignore the footer appearing halfway down - that's just a quirk of the screenshot app I use).

Your advice on the matter is greatly appreciated, thank you.

[JorgeB]

17 minutes ago, jademonkee said:

does it matter what order the others are assigned?

 

Not for single parity, make sure you select parity is already valid before starting the array, then run a parity check.

[jademonkee]

Thanks, jb.

I shall give it a go now.

[jademonkee]

Just letting you know that everything worked well, and the parity check completed without errors. 

Thanks for your help, @johnnie.black

[JorgeB]

Good, luckily for you, and since you have and even number of data drives, parity is easily identifiable, though you should've been able to copy super.dat from the old flash drive if needed, that's where the assignments are stored.