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Sure, why not spend $16 and get Newznab +, scrounge up a PC, install Ubuntu 12.04 and have your own personal indexing rig in 3-4 hours, running headless. I did, and its not difficult to do. If you have a "fat pipe", it may be a good investment. But the fact is, there's still plenty of "free" resources available for the information being discussed in this topic.

Happy New Year - I too can vouch for the web-server not automatically starting upon a reboot, well so far its 4 out of 4 reboots. Something else, totally unrelated... the shares on the Tower are not visible from my PCH....

Yep, I have every model of the PCH except the 300 series, and if I needed one I would buy it.

I started to say, good thing I'm buying Hitachi disks, but I see now where WD is buying Hitachi Q3/2011, right about now...perhaps already have in which case I would assume both disks are manufactured in the same flooded facility.....

"downloading torrents" = oxymoron

Appreciate it guys. And yes I did purchase: Description: Quantity 2: 2GB USB2.0 Flash device containing unRAID Server OS Pro registration So I reckon I'm good to go on another box. Now if either fail, Ill just purchase new one's or see what Tom can do. No biggie one way or the other. Thankx Richard

Hello, I need to build another Tower. I purchased (2) Pro Licenses, but I'm not sure if I registered the spare. I simply cant remember. Is there a way to tell? I would like to use the spare for another box. Also, if the original Flash (the 1 currently being used) failed, is it possible to have it replaced / purchased so I wouldn't lose any data? Sorry, these may be simple but I cant find much that is relative to my questions. Thankx in advance Richard

The disk is rebuilding itself now. I appreciate the info and Ill keep and eye on it. Thankx Richard

I appreciate the suggestion Joe. The cable seemed to be OK, and I reseated the disk in the slot. Attached is the SMART report.... SMART_16.txt

Hello, I put in a new disk 2 days ago, cleared it, and copied approx 1TB of data to it. This afternoon I get a dreaded red X (disabled) status. I believe the disk has bellied up on me. As I look through the log, looks like it never mounted correctly. Here is a small sample of the attached syslog of the disk: Mar 30 18:16:58 Tower kernel: md: disk16 read error Mar 30 18:16:58 Tower kernel: handle_stripe read error: 820528600/16, count: 1 Mar 30 18:16:58 Tower kernel: ata9: translated ATA stat/err 0x51/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Mar 30 18:16:58 Tower kernel: ata9: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Mar 30 18:16:58 Tower kernel: ata9: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } Mar 30 18:16:58 Tower kernel: md: disk16 read error Is the anything to do except replace it? All info appreciated. Thankx Richard disk16.txt

That done the trick. Much appreciated. Great plugin by the way...

Hello and I hope everyone had a great Christmas. OK, yesterday I installed MyMain plugin from UnMenu and everything looks good so far. I've read several posts and pretty much figured a lot of things out. What I don't "see" are the MyServer and MySlots .jpg files. Their "links" point to http://tower/log/images/MyServer.jpg and MySlots.jpg. All other "icons" eg; Samsung, WD, refresh are displayed correctly and are functional. As suggested, I modified MySlots to resemble my configuration in \\tower\flash\unmenu\images\stock, MyServer is fine. From a command line, ls -l /var/log the output shows that the /var/log/images directory is linked to /boot/unmenu/images. I believe this is correct. But still no images. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thankx

Depends on how many licenses you want to buy I would think....I believe the "home" version is 1 license > 1PC.

I just ordered the HITACHI Deskstar HD32000 at NewEgg for $119. Not a bad deal ...be sure to add the promo code

Same here .... on the AOC-SASLP-MV8 cards. I have a couple of them.

Guess I took 255 minutes literally, I ran the report command 2 minutes after the "suggested" completion time. Ill make sure its finished next time. Testing has begun. Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Sun May 9 10:05:53 2010 root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdh === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Local Time is: Sun May 9 10:08:20 2010 GMT+6

Joe, here are the results from the long SMART tests. When I built the server I performed a MemTest on the 4GB installed, said no problems. I may just run 1 session of preclear and see what the results are.... root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -t long /dev/sdh smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF OFFLINE IMMEDIATE AND SELF-TEST SECTION === Sending command: "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode". Drive command "Execute SMART Extended self-test routine immediately in off-line mode" successful. Testing has begun. Please wait 255 minutes for test to complete. Test will complete after Sun May 9 10:05:53 2010 Use smartctl -X to abort test. root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# root@Tower:/boot/unmenu# smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdh smartctl version 5.38 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] Copyright © 2002-8 Bruce Allen Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2741749 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: Exact ATA specification draft version not indicated Local Time is: Sun May 9 10:08:20 2010 GMT+6 SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x82) Offline data collection activity was completed without error. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. Self-test execution status: ( 244) Self-test routine in progress... 40% of test remaining. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (40800) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 154 153 021 Pre-fail Always - 9283 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 38 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 68 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 19 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 186 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 124 111 000 Old_age Always - 28 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Not_testing 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. root@Tower:/boot/unmenu#

Will do and report back......Thankx for the advice Joe.....

Hello, I began preclearing 4 disks yesterday morning, and earlier today noticed 2 of them had basically "stalled". I stopped the 2 "stalled" sessions, 1 at 6 hours, the other around 2 hours into the process. The other 2 completed the script indicating they had not been precleared, both with this error. === = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdh = cycle 1 of 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Testing if the clear has been successful. DONE = Post-Read in progress: 66% complete. ( 1,327,560,192,000 of 2,000,398,934,016 bytes read ) Disk Temperature: 32C, Elapsed Time: 31:24:45 ./preclear_disk.sh: line 552: 1+()%(243201) : syntax error: operand expected (error token is ")%(243201) ") ============================================================================== == Disk /dev/sdh has NOT been precleared successfully == skip=50600 count=200 returned instead of 00000 skip=160800 count=200 returned instead of 00000 ============================================================================ S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem 15,25c15,87 < Error SMART Status command failed < Please get assistance from http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/ < Register values returned from SMART Status command are: < ST =0x40 < ERR=0x00 < NS =0x14 < SC =0xa8 < CL =0x88 < CH =0xe0 < SEL=0x40 < A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. --- > === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === > SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED > > General SMART Values: > Offline data collection status: (0x84) Offline data collection activity was suspended by an interrupting command from host. Auto Offline Data Collection: Enabled. > Self-test execution status:(0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. > Total time to complete Offline data collection: (40800) seconds. > Offline data collection capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. > Offline surface scan supported. > Self-test supported. > Conveyance Self-test supported. > Selective Self-test supported. > SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. > Supports SMART auto save timer. > Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. > General Purpose Logging supported. > Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. > Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. > Conveyance self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 5) minutes. > SCT capabilities: (0x3031) SCT Status supported. > SCT Feature Control supported. > SCT Data Table supported. > > SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 > Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: > ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 154 153 021 Pre-fail Always - 9283 > 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 36 > 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 34 > 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 18 > 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 151 > 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 > 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 > 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 > > SMART Error Log Version: 1 > No Errors Logged > > SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 > No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] > > > SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1 > SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS > 1 0 0 Not_testing > 2 0 0 Not_testing > 3 0 0 Not_testing > 4 0 0 Not_testing > 5 0 0 Not_testing > Selective self-test flags (0x0): > After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. > If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. > ======================================================================== After powering down and back up I ran the -t command against both completed disks and show they have successfully been precleared. Should I run the script again? What about the "partition" /dev/sdh1? I would appreciate your comments...... ######################################################################## Device Model: WDC WD20EARS-00S8B1 Serial Number: WD-WCAVY2741749 Firmware Version: 80.00A80 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Disk /dev/sdh: 2000.3 GB, 2000398934016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243201 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 63 3907029167 1953514552+ 0 Empty Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. ######################################################################## ============================================================================ == == DISK /dev/sdh IS PRECLEARED == ============================================================================ root@Tower:/boot/unmenu#