Booting hangup after new drive

[StephenB]

muddauber wrote:
StephenB, You commented "There is a checkbox that you can check before you insert the 4th drive that lets you add it for redundancy, not more capacity. If you check that box, you'll end up with xraid dual-redundancy/raid-6." Where is that checkbox?

I also told you to use XRAID, not flexraid. I don't believe that checkbox applies to flexraid (but am not sure).

Select Volumes, and then Raid Settings and you see if the checkbox is there.

If you want flexraid, you might need to reset again with 4 disks in place, and chose Raid-6.

[muddauber]

I did not see an option for RAID5 with XRAID, so I chose FLEXRAID because it showed the option of
RAID5.

After the drives synced and I added 4th drive, it showed RAID5 "redundant",

and when I added 4th drive it gave me option of
__ Add To Volume __Make Hot Spare

I chose Make Hot Spare.

So this is not going to be RAID6?

[StephenB]

muddauber wrote:
I did not see an option for RAID5 with XRAID, so I chose FLEXRAID because it showed the option of RAID5. After the drives synced and I added 4th drive, it showed RAID5 "redundant", and when I added 4th drive it gave me option of __ Add To Volume __Make Hot Spare I chose Make Hot Spare. So this is not going to be RAID6?

No. A "hot spare" is something else.

If you had simply installed xraid with three drives you would have had single-redundancy - which is RAID-5.

To get where you want to go you need to do another factory reset.