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    Powercool UPS - compatible?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Update. 
     

    installed the powercool software on my VM within unraid. 
     

    got the UPS to appear and when I killed the power, it recognised it. 
     

    And then!

     

    s7ff3tC.jpg

     

    UnRAID recognised it too!!

     

    but just as quickly as it saw it was off, it then went back online (and at the same time, I could not connect to the powercool on my VM any longer)

     

    so, I’m definitely getting warmer!

     

    bonus was seeing I’m only using 20% capacity, so it’ll last a few minutes on battery mode. 

    Help an inexperienced user solve this please - freezing since upgrading.

    in General Support

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

    Please post new diags after the errors.

     

    attached but not sure what good it'll do as i've powered down and swapped out the sff8087 breakout lead to another one to try and rule out connection issue as i woke to parity and disk7 read errors and they are on the same lead.

     

    telegram messaged the error @ 23:25 last night.

     

    i've replaced the lead and re-begun a parity check.

    amjam-diagnostics-20210411-0857.zip

    Help an inexperienced user solve this please - freezing since upgrading.

    in General Support

    Posted

    Hi!

     

    migrated to Unraid last year in August. 6.8.3

     

    check out my first ever post. 😂

     

    been bulletproof. 
     

    I’m all containers and VMs now.

     

    upgraded to 6.9.1 on Sunday before the Easter egg hunt. 
     

    plain sailing and straight forward. 
     

    onto this week. 

    woke up Friday morning to a server with array stopped due to unsafe shutdown. 
     

    start array and parity check begins. 
     

    read errors on disk7. 
     

    power down server and move plugs around on drives. 
     

    power up and add back into array and parity check completes lunchtime today. 
     

    sat down for Plex this evening and it drops off. 
     

    go back out to server and it’s 8:13pm but screen says 8:09pm. 
     

    unsafe shutdown again (hold power button) and start up again. 
     

    everything’s back up and it’s doing another parity check. 
     

    to say I’m absolutely gutted I updated to 6.9.1 and regret it. But I was intrigued on “my servers” which has only made it odd difficult to log in. 
     

    I don’t know what to do and where to look at logs to find a solution. 
     

    I hope it lasts the night and it gets parity checked out again. Third time this month it’s done one now. 


    should I be upgrading to 6.9.2?

    Powercool UPS - compatible?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    4 hours ago, jonathanm said:

    The screenshot shows status online. Does it change when you turn off the outlet that supplies power to the UPS? Obviously all such testing needs to be done with the server powered on a separate circuit.


    no, it stays ONLINE the whole time. 

    Powercool UPS - compatible?

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by Jammy B

    20 hours ago, jonathanm said:

    Not sure what it is you are wanting, but as long as the UPS properly signals immediately when power is lost, that's all that's needed. Set unraid to shut down after 2 or 3 minutes of outage and you will be fine. A UPS like that isn't meant to keep services running through an outage, it's to allow a safe and proper shutdown.

    That’s exactly what I’m wanting, but at the moment the two aren’t talking to each other, if it were as simple as the APC was. It’d be great. 
     

    im after advice on how to get the two to communicate so that it can safely shut down Unraid in the event of a power cut. 

    [Plugin] NUT v2 - Network UPS Tools

    in Plugin Support

    Posted · Edited by Jammy B

    i've posted this in General Support but it might get a bit more NUT attention in here:

     

     

    Quote

    ok, so against my better judgement [i just wanted UPS protection that i currently lost from the broken down one] i ordered the PowerCool 1000VA

     

    plugged it in and used AutoDetect in NUT and it detected:

     

     

    nutscanner.png.6c5cbeacd3794944bdc5cbdb34b92a6c.png

     

    but it kept setting the driver to blazer [which reading in the NUT manual - LINK is what is it], but then further reading and googling found this:

    Discussion on the Powercool and the nutdrv-qx driver

    GitHub

    2113680434_2021-04-02(1).png.a43551522d858272194b4c13790d892f.png

    so put this [without quotes] into the ups.conf in the editor at the bottom of NUT settings and set USB driver to custom nutdrv_qx

     

    2067977535_2021-04-02(2).thumb.png.fadb4be870795351a13b2489ab9e0244.png

     

    1117220360_2021-04-02(3).thumb.png.bc8248d4ec943140ce60fa26e2d765bf.png

     

    989888241_2021-04-02(4).png.96802d6f68a1d9fad797ff6b30b3c7b6.png

    and that is the limit of capabilities.

     

    has anyone managed to get Powercool UPS to work with NUT?

     

    a little surprised as its such a budget/cheap UPS in the UK that if it were to work easily, it'd be a no-brainer for UK users to get one!

     

     

    any advice anyone can offer, i'd appreciate it!

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Powercool UPS - compatible?

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by Jammy B

    ok, so against my better judgement [i just wanted UPS protection that i currently lost from the broken down one] i ordered the PowerCool 1000VA

     

    plugged it in and used AutoDetect in NUT and it detected:

     

    nutscanner.png.ea023f8ccca8dce049374b36e6c94400.png

     

     

     

    but it kept setting the driver to blazer [which reading in the NUT manual - LINK is what is it], but then further reading and googling found this:

    Discussion on the Powercool and the nutdrv-qx driver

    GitHub

    468701738_2021-04-02(1).png.285291533fc164d62e5f51c01fa64f3c.png

     

    so put this [without quotes] into the ups.conf in the editor at the bottom of NUT settings and set USB driver to custom nutdrv_qx

    77731983_2021-04-02(2).thumb.png.cbb61d834751f5a56319910a4dedddf4.png

     

    661350279_2021-04-02(3).thumb.png.a9341f937f592db3fec0f5b5595bd5df.png

     

     

    1141084168_2021-04-02(4).png.5cedbeed763c332e839112e5599c7b54.png

    and that is the limit of capabilities.

     

    has anyone managed to get Powercool UPS to work with NUT?

     

    a little surprised as its such a budget/cheap UPS in the UK that if it were to work easily, it'd be a no-brainer for UK users to get one!

     

     

    any advice anyone can offer, i'd appreciate it!

     

     

     

     

    Parity disk in error state [1/2 solved - duff SATA lead?]

    in General Support

    Posted · Edited by Jammy B

    Hi!

     

    woke up this morning to Parity drive in error state.

     

    not had this one before, so bit of reading...

     

    i've taken it all offline, removed/reseated the HBA card, checked connections.

     

    drive appears fine, as soon as put it back as parity and press start array, it starts then fails.

     

    the Parity drive is about a year old [not that that means anything]

     

    i've attached diagnostic files from TOOLS/DIAGNOSTICS

     

    not really sure what to do next. it all works. just no parity.

     

    the only recent changes i've made [excluding upgrading to latest release] is set drives to spin down after 3 hours in an attempt to save a little energy at night.

     

    other than that. Please can someone advise what to do next.

     

    edit added disk info from diskspeed.

     

     

    server-diagnostics-20210301-1231.zip

    parity disk.png

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