[SOLVED] HDDs are seen by system and Unraid, but not available to add?

[OrangePeel]

Hi everyone,

 

I have bought some new to me enterprise drives to upgrade my array.  They are not showing up as Unassigned Devices, but they do show up in System Devices.  I'm thinking I probably need to format them or something similar.  Any ideas on what I need to do to get them to show up as usable to Unraid?

Brandon

Edited July 12, 2020 by OrangePeel

[JonathanM]

Diagnostics zip file missing, crystal ball broken, my best guess would be wrong sector size.

[OrangePeel]

Any idea when your crystal ball may be fixed?

 

Ok, ok... diagnostics attached. 

Brandon

unraid-diagnostics-20200710-2150.zip

[JonathanM]

Yep, wrong sector size.

[OrangePeel]

Awesome. Thanks!

Brandon

[OrangePeel]

Officially and completely resolved.  I used this post specifically:  

 

 

To guide me through installing the utility and formatting the drives, for anyone who comes along and finds this later.

 

Also, I did 4 drives at once.  The first three I started in the web based terminal.  These keep going even if closed.  The 4th one I did on the server console itself so I could see the progress.  It's pretty easy to see if the drives are being formatted or not if you have disk activity lights, but I also could go by the 4th one which stayed open and I could see the progress.  Took a while!

 

Now I've replaced my parity disk and it's rebuilding.  Gotta upgrade every HDD I have, plus add an extra one.  

Brandon