Hello, I was just about to swap my hardware but figure I’d hit the forums first. I will explain my current hardware setup, and what I am going to.

 

My current setup is an Intel motherboard. As is the motherboard has:

4 onboard SATA

4 PCI SATA (Promise TX400)

The current amount of hard drives connected is 8 in total (1 being parity)

When I look at the device list in the unraid GUI, I took a screen shot for ports each drive is connected to, it looks something like this

 

INTEL CHIPSET (onboard sata)

 

Parity: 1f.2 SCSI 0:0:0:0

Disk1: 1f.2 SCSI 1:0:1:0

Disk2: 1f.2 SCSI 1:0:0:0

Disk3: 1f.2 SCSI 0:0:1:0

 

PROMISE TX400 (4 port pci sata)

 

Disk4: 01.0 SCSI 2:0:0:0

Disk5: 01.0 SCSI 3:0:0:0

Disk6: 01.0 SCSI 0:0:0:0

Disk7: 01.0 SCSI 1:0:0:0

 

So I have this setup printed off, basically a screen shot of the device list, so I have matching hard disks to matching port.

The hardware I am swapping to is: Biostar A760G M2+  / AMD Sempron 140 (2.7 GHz)

The biostar has 6 onboard SATA + my 4 port PCI SATA (Promise tx400)

Having said that, when I do swap the hard disks onto this hardware, will I have to pick the same exact port as stated above so unraid works correctly, or do I use the first 4 onboard sata with the 4port PCI SATA and leave the 2 onboard ports un-used or vacant till I expand the server? I hope that isn’t too confusing, I just want to be clear in case I run into any problems.

Thank you.

 

You need the model/serial numbers of the disks, not the PCI ports they are on.  The PCI ports are guaranteed to change with different hardware, they will not help when you boot up on the new motherboard and have to use the "Devices" page to re-assign specific disks to slots in the array.

 

unRAID does not care which port a drive is on, or what disk controller, or even if on one MB it shows as an IDE drive and on another a SATA, as long as you assign it on the "Devices" page back to the original logical "slot" on the array.

 

 

 

 

 

ya, it was sort of a noobish question, but i wanted to be sure. Thank you !! everyone here is always a great help !

What you need is a screen print of the "devices" page of the management interface.

 

Or, a listing of

parity = model/serial number of parity disk

disk1 = model/serial number of data disk1.

disk2 = model/serial number of data disk2.

etc.