April 23, 201016 yr I don't know what to do... I'm in that precarious place where unRAID wants me to press Restore. So I'm here to find out what I really should do. How it happened: I recently upgraded some 500GB drives to 1.5TB. So for a week I have two 500GB drives that are no longer part of the array sitting in the machine. I decided to take them out today. So I shutdown cleanly and removed two. But when I booted back up I looked at the unRAID page (I always do just to ensure nothing out of the ordinary happened). Well, it said I pulled the 500GB that was still in the array. Darn, my poor labeling skills. Anyway, I shutdown, put that 500GB back in and hooked it up. Boot up and unRAID marked the 500GB drive with dark blue ball, the command area says "Stopped, upgraded disk".
April 23, 201016 yr Author are you sure you put the right disk back in? Actually it looks like the wrong one. I'll try again.
April 23, 201016 yr are you sure you put the right disk back in? Actually it looks like the wrong one. I'll try again. This is exactly why we suggest you print out a screen-shot before you start messing with the array.
April 23, 201016 yr Author Ok, I put in the right one and unRAID is happy again with all green balls on the drives. I'm labeling the drives with the serial number so I can see it now. Thanks all.
April 23, 201016 yr Ok, I put in the right one and unRAID is happy again with all green balls on the drives. I'm labeling the drives with the serial number so I can see it now. Thanks all. Good to hear everything worked out ok
April 23, 201016 yr Author I noticed that after I pulled out the unused drives that the device names for all the drives changeed. For instance, the parity drive went from /dev/sde to /dev/sdb. I'm guessing that unRAID finds the drives by serial number id.
April 24, 201016 yr I noticed that after I pulled out the unused drives that the device names for all the drives changeed. For instance, the parity drive went from /dev/sde to /dev/sdb. I'm guessing that unRAID finds the drives by serial number id. It finds them by the port on the disk controller initially assigned. Then it uses the model/serial number to make sure it was as expected. The flash drive is identified by the UNRAID volume label because its device can change from one boot to another. Joe L.
April 24, 201016 yr Author I noticed that after I pulled out the unused drives that the device names for all the drives changeed. For instance, the parity drive went from /dev/sde to /dev/sdb. I'm guessing that unRAID finds the drives by serial number id. It finds them by the port on the disk controller initially assigned. Then it uses the model/serial number to make sure it was as expected. The flash drive is identified by the UNRAID volume label because its device can change from one boot to another. Joe L. I see. So moving non array drives around (in and out) won't disturb the array - right? But moving array drives to different ports would make unRAID drop drives from the array - right?
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