Erik M

I am running an old HP 6300 SFF for my server. I have the cache drive installed in the case and currently 6 4TB & 1 8TB(parity drive) HDD in 2 of these cages HDD Cage. These run on old salvged 240w Dell power supply. I understand that I must switch them on before I fire up the server and if I shutdown the server then I need to kill the power to these manually. My question is, is this a good practice? It is working for me but I do not want to leave myself open to issues cown the road. The cages have a connector for the power supply which is controlled by a switch. Then I use a 5 way SATA Power breakout for each one

I received the better cable and it still will not recognize the drives. I'm going to chalk it up to a bad card as I bought it on Ebay for cheap. I ended up going with a different card IO CREST 10 Port (SY-PEX40167) and some SATA cables like these Multi SATA cable and so far it works fine.

I was able to get into the card's BIOS and it does not recognize any drives. I tried it with both cables that I have. I ordered a better quality cable but it will not arrive untill Tuesday. I will try that cable just incase it was that the cheaper cables were just that. Cheap.

The drives are spun up but that could be because they have a dedicated power supply. I may need to rethink that.... I did flash the bios as well. If I remember correctly, I should be able to hit CRTL-C to open that up but will need to see when I get home soon.

Could anyone point me to a solution for an issue I am having with the LSI 9200-8e? Currently I have my Unraid server working using a 4 port SATA card SI-PEX40064 https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AZ9T3OU/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o06_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1 with 4 long sata cables attached and 1 attached to a motherboard SATA port. All of the cables are running through an empty slot in the back to my stack of 5 4TB drives. It all works fine. What I want to do is put an LSI 9200-8e HBA in to eliminate the nest of SATA cables and just have the 2 running from the back of the card. I managed to flash the card to the P20 firmware and confirmed that it did flash correctly, but after I hook everything up and reboot, only the parity and Drive 4 show up in Unraid. I believe I am using the proper cables as they state they are Host to SATA https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B08NGGPPCY?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details Am I missing something? Oh, the motherboard specs are here https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03387773 I have the card in the 16x slot. Thanks for any input, I'm at my wits end here.

Thank you for this Docker! I was wondering if it is normal to have connections from unknown IP's? From my log... 2-09-26 11:43:09: IPv4 connection closed: 184.74.82.xx:xxx 2022-09-26 22:56:36: IPv4 connection accepted: 111.7.96.xx:xxx 2022-09-26 22:56:38: IPv4 connection closed: 111.7.96.xx:xxx 2022-09-26 22:56:38: IPv4 connection accepted: 111.7.96.xx:xxx. 2022-09-26 22:56:38: IPv4 connection closed: 111.7.96.xx:xxx. I recognize the 184.72... but not the 111.7.96.. Should I be concerned and try and block all IP's except the one I recognize?

Wonderful! Thank you for your assistance. I'm sure about the drive as I labeled them wih their serial # and the order. Glad I did that!

I tried to copy the config file but the usb drive is corrupt and it would only copy 30 of 146 files in the config folder. I did look at the physical HDD's in the array and I had labeled them as 1, 2, 3, 4 & Parity. Given that, I should be able to rebuild with out Unraid preclearing. Correct? Update: I did manage to reinstall Unraid and updated the registration successfully. I have assigned the drives to the array as they were but the Parity drive has this message next to it. All existing data on this device will be OVERWRITTEN when array is Started. I haven't started the array yet. If my thinking is correct, this just means that the parity drive is going to go through the 4 data drives and set itself up without clearing the data drives. Am I correct? I am paranoid, that I do know! I did just see a little checkbox next to the start array button that if checked says parity is already valid. If I check that will it not have to clear the parity drive and just start working normal?

This morning I assume bricked the USB drive that Unraid is on as it will not boot. I know I can install Unraid on a new drive. I unfortunately do not have a backup to restore (Lesson learned, I will have monthly backups after this is fixed) I would like to do this with out losing any data. The array was (5) 4TB HDD's. (1) Parity and (4) Data. I did have (2 docker containers installed, Krusader and Plex Media Server. I'm at work right now so I cant look but I'm 90% sure I marked which drive was the Parity and I do know which drive is assigned as #2 in the array as I just replaced that a week ago. I believe that after installing Unraid on the new USB, I need to go into the config file and turn off the Autostart Array feature before I try and boot the server. After that, I'm lost. From what I've read, I need to set up the new array assigning the disks exactly as they are now. Assuming I do know which drive is the Parity, I can assign that as such and Drive 2 as well. For the remaining 3 data drives, how can I determine which is drive 1, 3 and 4? And I assume I'll have to redo the shares which I think I can handle and then reinstall Plex and redo that whole mess. Can anyone provide me some guidance on how to do this without losing any data? Thanks in advance.

Thank you, I completely missed that. Must be one of the workers was flipping breakers while I wasn't there.

Hi! I have been running a few months with no issues. We had 2 power outages earlier this month and after the power was restored, a parity check automatically ran and showed parity errors. I re-ran the check after and 0 errors were reported. Yesterday I received a notice that a parity check was running which is 3 days ahead of the schedule (1st of every month). This turned up 98 errors again. I am running version 6.9.2 with 1 parity drive and 3 data drives in the array. Attached is the log. SMART is not reporting any errors on any of the drives. Any suggestions? syslog.txt