Hi all, been scanning but cant find any previous threads - so please will you guide me - or send a link.

 

My USB boot failed, so purchased a new one, all bootable, and licence key re-installed - i can remote onto it fine from my main PC on the network

 

Foolishly I cant find my backup - so how can I find out which is my parity disk, and the order of the remaining 4 (If there is one) of the other disks in the array?

 

All the drives are coming up unassigned.

 

I'm afraid to mis-select incase I wipe the lot

 

I have 5 disks in total?

 

thanks in advance.

 

p.

 

 

Assign all disks to data slots and no disks to parity. The disk that comes up as unmountable is parity. If more than one is unmountable seek additional help.

Hi Constructor - so far so good.

 

Put all into the array - and started - identified disk xxx018 which was un mountable (Capture 1)

So de-selected from the array and put into the parity (Capture2) - and the array wont display as startable.

I've left config this way and rebooted, and upon re-start puts disk xxx018 back into slot 5?

Thanks again.

You have to set another new config to move drive around again. Now that you know where things are supposed to go, you can select the checkbox for parity is already valid and just do a parity check.

Make sure it's a correcting check since a few sync errors are expected.

Right - done a new config - but it's now saying "PARITY IS INVALID" when i hover over the drive error - the triangle 

 

 

That means you didn't check parity is already valid, just let it finish

Ah right - so it's doing a check of the array - and will be back on line at the end of the rebuild?

 

thanks

p.

 

2 minutes ago, Spanner said:

Ah right - so it's doing a check of the array - and will be back on line at the end of the rebuild?

 

thanks

p.

 

All your shares should be online and available now. However, you should avoid a whole lot of file activity, as it will slow down the parity build.

 

If you had users and user security set up, all that will be gone and need to be reset.

Thank you for your incredibly knowledgeable assistance - really appreciated - i'm sure you'll all be on santa's good list.  

 

p.

45 minutes ago, Spanner said:

Hi Constructor - so far so good.

Hi Newbie (What was your name again?)

 

 

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Edited December 8, 20187 yr by Spanner

Sorry  Trurl - bit of a noob on the forums - just clocked the name !! doh !

All back on line, parity check took 5 1/2 hours, thanks Again....