October 22, 20178 yr Hi all, Just a quick one to double check before I start my array on a new motherboard, migrated 3 existing hard drives (2 x data, 1 x parity) to a new motherboard. The 2 data disks mount and work ok, but the parity disk is showing as "ALL DATA ON THIS DISK WILL BE ERASED WHEN ARRAY IS STARTED" beside the drive and also "Start will start Parity-Sync and/or Data-Rebuild." beside Start: Am I ok to start the array and not lose any data on the data drives? Cheers, Andrew.
October 22, 20178 yr Community Expert You wont lose any data if you start it like that but something went wrong (or you started the array without parity assigned) during the migration as parity is being detected as a new disk, and it will be re-synced. If parity was valid best option would be to do a new config, re-assign all disks and check "parity is already valid" before starting the array, you should then run a parity check to make sure it's valid.
October 22, 20178 yr Author Thanks Johnnie, should also add I went from 6.3.5 on the previous motherboard to 6.4.0-rc9f. New config, is that just for the drives or does that wipe all unRAID settings too? Cheers, Andrew.
October 22, 20178 yr Community Expert 1 minute ago, bishyb said: I went from 6.3.5 on the previous motherboard to 6.4.0-rc9f. That wouldn't cause your problem. 1 minute ago, bishyb said: New config, is that just for the drives or does that wipe all unRAID settings too? Just the array config, i.e., the disk assignments. Edited October 22, 20178 yr by johnnie.black
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