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Removed two disks from an older system and installed in the ReadyNAS system. INstalled into existing system and get an error message. What do I do to get the system to recognize these driv...
Digital999 wrote:
Yes, we want tow different volumes of different sizes. Lots of history there but that is what we want.
Have you switched to flexraid? If you haven't, then that is the first step. If you see a green stripe on the XRAID control, then click on it. (the green stripe signifies XRAID is on).
Then you'd select the two disks and create a new volume on them.
Not sure what is going on with disk 4. It kind of looks like you'd already created a volume, but and not just formatted the drives??? If that is the case, you'd need to click on the volume settings wheel for bank-3 and bank-4, and delete those volumes (before you can create a new RAID-1 volume).
Yes, we want tow different volumes of different sizes. Lots of history there but that is what we want.
Digital999 wrote:
Yes, we want tow different volumes of different sizes. Lots of history there but that is what we want.
Have you switched to flexraid? If you haven't, then that is the first step. If you see a green stripe on the XRAID control, then click on it. (the green stripe signifies XRAID is on).
Then you'd select the two disks and create a new volume on them.
Not sure what is going on with disk 4. It kind of looks like you'd already created a volume, but and not just formatted the drives??? If that is the case, you'd need to click on the volume settings wheel for bank-3 and bank-4, and delete those volumes (before you can create a new RAID-1 volume).
Thanks -- late in the day. Will attempt tomorrow.
Thanks for the guidance.
Thanks again for you guidance. As suggested, I deleted the JBOD volume, had two drives shown, selected both and made a Raid 1 volume.
It is grinding away as it attempts to sync the raid disks. There is no useful data there but after 18 hours it will complete and we can go forward.
I then reproduced the issue on another system and was able to document the process.
Thanks again for your help.
In review it seems that the key was to power down the system and then disconnect the two drive and then power up.
Plugging in the drives when the system was operational seemed to get the system to recognize them and then make a new RAID volume.
If XRAID is off, then the system should not automatically create a volume or add drives to an existing one. Hot insertion is the recommended method for expansion.
Digital999 wrote:
There is no useful data there but after 18 hours it will complete and we can go forward.
RAID operates at the block level. Sync always takes the same amount of time - even if the volume is empty.
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