I had a hard drive fail in my box. I have tried replacing it with 2 of the identical model drives, but the array is stopped because the drive is too small. If it is, it has got to be only by bytes... is there any way past this short of buying another drive?

I had a hard drive fail in my box. I have tried replacing it with 2 of the identical model drives, but the array is stopped because the drive is too small. If it is, it has got to be only by bytes... is there any way past this short of buying another drive?

You've not posted a syslog to assist in the analysis.  Basically, the only time recently we've seen drives differ in size by a tiny bit is if there is an HPA on one of the drives making it seem smaller.

 

So... post a syslog

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Capturing_your_syslog

 

Read about the HPA issue

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Topical_Index#HPA

 

Once we see the actual sizes we'll know how to react.

 

You can get also get hdparm reports on the drives

 

hdparm -N /dev/sdX

where sdX = the device of the drive that is too small.

 

Joe L.

Sorry about not posting the log... here it is:  http://pastebin.com/eZ70cmqc

 

You nailed it right on the head with the HPA issue. I did have these drives connected into a Gigabyte MB at one point, and the HDD Restore utility found a difference of 1Mb.  I let the Utility fix it, and now the array is currently rebuilding.

 

Thanks for your quick response, and for your help.