December 31, 201015 yr I've read that its is strongly recommend to place a jumper on WD 20 ears drives (new ones) i 've done this with my 2 new drives (one is data1 now, second is about to be the parity drive) I'm currently copying from a third wd 20ears drive which is full of data, to the data1 after that i want to add that drive to the array as data 2 the drive has currently 2 partitions ext2/3 so what should i do? i think about this: - remove the partition (its mounted in my vista machine right now, remove it there) - format the drive as fat32? - move the hardware to the server, and put a jumper on 7-8? (or not?, cause i sometimes read id better not once its used) - preclear the drive - add to the array
January 2, 201115 yr 1. Do this before you put the jumper on: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5384.msg62729#msg62729 2. put the jumper on 3. preclear you don't need to format the drive in windows.
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