![]() ![]() Thanks for clarification, so instead of doing very inconvenient unsupported manual steps, it is just impossible to use a larger disk on a data drive fail. You will not be able to swap the parity driven before you have replaced and restored the the data disk. Not only for my usecase, but also for use cases with mixed vendors where the drive size is only off by some megabytes If seagates feature is compatible, this would be great. If both is supported by unraid, I could test HDD swap with to large drives using seagate seatool and I could share the results. I only have one external SATA connector, so I would need to connect the 2nd drive via USB: are USB 3.0 disks supported? is it possible to create an array with 2 drives? 1 data + 1 parity? I could use my main computer for testing unraid support for seagate max LBA, but I have some limits on my main rig: So I need some help with the evaluation of the seagate max LBA feature. And I don't have a spare testbench with 3 drives to test it outside of my unraid server. I could use a USB to SATA controller to plug my too large seagate drive into my array, but my licence does not allow additional drives. On my unraid server I don't have empty SATA ports to test it. I would like to evaluate seagates solution which is written directly to the drive controller but don't have an unraid server on hand to test it directly in unraid.Ĭould I do some test without unraid by checking how linux does see my max LBA seagate drive? I would need to know which parameters are used by unraid Yes, I understood the issue of BIOS related limits. If you are not sure about max LBA support, which hard disk parameters are queried during the disk size check? I could try to verify if these parameters get altered after I define a max LBA via seatools I have a Seagate drive, is the max LBA feature supported by unraid? Is it possible to assign partitions instead of disks to work around the drive too large issue? Update the parity drive to allow larger data drivesīecause you can not replace the parity drive in a degraded array so easily, I want to know more about the issues around too large hard drives before I have to deal with this issue. Which means in case of a data drive failure, I would need to replace 2 drives: If any of my drives fail, I know about the issue that I can not use a replacement drive which is larger than the parity drive. ![]() I don't want to upgrade my parity drive size because if the parity drive fails I don't want to be forced to buy an unnecessary large replacement drive. My spare drive is larger than any other drive in my array. How can I recover or return the drive to it's original size? I am hoping to start the whole process over following the advice I have read here.I use multiple drives with different sizes in my array. I tried making the drive a dynamic partition, but was only able to do the 36gb. I tried booting off the TI recover CD and it too only sees 36gb. What happened? I have tried low level formating but this only sees 36gb. It now shows up as a 36gb hard drive with no other partitions. I put the 160gb hard drive back into the USB case and attached it to the laptop. So I replaced the new drive with the old drive and rebooted. At start up I got a blue screen that the drivers were not correct and that the drive was unreadable. When it completed the clone successfully, I removed the 40gb hard drive and replaced it with the 160gb drive. I chose the "automatic" clone mode to do the cloning. I am using the trial version of TI and have connected the 160gb hard drive through a USB external case. I am trying to replace a 40gb SATA laptop hard drive with a 160gb hard drive SATA. ![]()
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