I messed up the Parity Swap, need help

[superfans124]

so I was following the Parity Swap procedure https://wiki.unraid.net/The_parity_swap_procedure doing my 1st parity swap, or that's what I thought I was doing...

 

except in hindsight, I didn't have a old data drive to upgrade and swap out, I only wanted to upgrade my prior parity drive of 10TB to the new drive of 12TB, and put the old 10TB into data drive array.

 

but I was following the "standard procedure":

2. instead of the old data drive, I unassigned my 10TB parity (clearly neither my brain nor my eyes were functioning properly).

all else the same, until...

13. I assigned the new 12TB to parity, and assigned old parity drive of 10TB to data, but instead of getting as prescribed in the standard procedure, I got error message saying "you may not add new disk(s) and also remove existing disk(s)." (of course not because I messed up).

 

I should've stopped at there, and came here for help, but I didn't...

 

I thought, "I'll just assign the 12TB to parity, let Unraid rebuild the parity, then once that's done, I'll add the old 10TB into data array", that sounds pretty "logical and straight forward", to me...

 

except it is not working. after 26 hours of parity-sync to rebuild the 12TB parity, everything was green. Then, I assigned the old 10TB into a data drive slot, the entire parity sync went kaput, again. I'm still getting the  "you may not add new disk(s) and also remove existing disk(s)." message, and worse, the previous 26 hours spent on syncing parity gone wasted as it became invalid once more.

 

I need help...thanks.

[trurl]

New Config will be the way forward but just to make sure we aren't missing something, 

 

Go to Tools-diagnostics and attach the complete Diagnostics zip file to your NEXT post