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This statement in the release notes: "No need to use the master key now." Has me hopeful my issue will be resolved with this update. 🙂 Thanks for making this available Djoss. Kevin

I'm having trouble getting my Backblaze B2 bucket selected. I can enter a Display name, and then paste in the Account ID and Application Key (to avoid typing errors), but then I cannot select a bucket. Are there limitations on the bucket or display names of some kind? (Other than the Backblaze guidelines limiting you to A-Z, a-z, and -.) Kevin

Does it represent a problem if you have empty slots? For example, I just replaced my disks 1 though 4 with a single drive (four 2 TB drives in to one 8TB drive) I put the 8 TB drive in slot 1, but slots 2, 3, 4, are now empty. Everything seems to be working fine. Is there any reason the empty and non-contiguous slots would be a problem (aside from being somewhat esthetically displeasing)? Kevin

That makes sense. It's been 20 years since I studied how using parity to reconstruct data worked, but it makes sense that zeroing the drive would be a step that would preserve parity. I was thinking that once the data was gone, parity would be intact without the drive, and I could just yank it, but I can at least conceive of how that would not be the case and you'd need to zero the drive before you could pull it and have parity stay intact. Patience it is then. 🙂 Thank you for your time and reply. Kevin

I have started replacing the 8 year old 2 TB drives in my backup array. I had previously updated both parity drives to 8 TB, and am in the process of shrinking the array. I am following the procedure outlined here: https://wiki.unraid.net/index.php/Shrink_array Specifically the clear drive then remove section. I am using the unbalance plugin to move everything off the old drive on to the new drive, the the clear_array_drive script to clear the old drive. Reading the description of what the clear_array_drive script does, I am wondering if that step is really needed. The wiki says the script "it will completely and safely zero out the drive" Once removed these drives will be destroyed so I am not worried about data being retained on them. Does the script do something else necessary for the procedure? I can be patient if needed, but it would be nice to avoid another lengthy step if possible. Thank you for your help. Kevin

Thank you. I updated the name and it starts the server and I can access the web interface, but it still doesn't start the GUI, though I can (as before) log in to the terminal. In the past I've just updated after looking at the release notes. I see this time there is a thread about the other preparatory steps that needed to be taken, which, of course, mentioned the change in legal characters. With future updates I'll look or similar threads before updating. Anyway, I'll run through the thread on updating to 6.5.0, and I have Fix Common Problems running now. in the worse case I suppose I can always start with a fresh installation. Thank you again for your help. Kevin

Hello all I recently updated from 6.4.0 to 6.5.0. When I restarted, it boots to the login prompt, but never starts the UI. Suggestions? Diagnostics attached. Thank you very much for your help. Kevin tower_bkup-diagnostics-20180403-1352.zip

Maybe it's just voodoo now, but I've pre-cleared all my drives and haven't had any premature failures, on drives some of which are now more than 8 years old. The drives that failed pre-clear I've returned. Although my sample size is only around 20 drives, I'm a believer in stress testing a drive before putting it in to use. If I understand correctly, the plug in functioned properly under 6.3.5. Is that the consensus here? I'm tempted to just set up a system with my unused license (I knew I'd have a use for that extra license someday!) running 6.3.5 just to preclear disks, as I've got the hardware around anyway. For those of you who also believe in doing a pre-deployment stress test, what alternative do other suggest for stress testing a disk instead of preclear? I'm certainly open to suggestions. Thanks. Kevin

Thank you very much. That will simplify the process considerably. Kevin

I have two unRAIDs at home, a main server and a backup server. When I pre-clear a disk, does it matter what version of unRAID I am running? For example, if I preclear under 6.4.0, will that still function correctly if I add the disk to a later version of unRAID? I'd hate to have to pre-clear a disk a second time when I update unRAID, but certainly will if necessary. Also, if preclear a disk in one machine (it's much easier to add and remove drives in the newer build) is they any reason that wouldn't work in the backup server? Thank you. Kevin

Thank you for the pointer. Too bad, but understandable. Here's hoping someday. :-) Kevin

I have been unable to find a clear answer to this in the FAQ, manual, or forums. I apologize if I have overlooked the answer somewhere. With the second parity disk, will unRAID now identify if the error is on the data disk or parity disk? I know that previously, for a variety of reasons, corrections were generally recommended be written to the parity rather than data disks as you couldn't be sure which had the error. Just curious. Kevin

I was having this problem. When I turned on Advanced view, I had the option to Force Update, which I did. The updated completed successfully and Plex is now current. Thanks for the pointer to Advanced View. Kevin

I have an issue where I get an Alert: UPS Alert Communications restored with UPS Tower This happens very few hours. I've tried replacing the USB cable, different ports on the computer, etc., and the problem persists. The UPS is a CyberPower CP1500PFCLCD PFC Sinewave UPS 1500VA 900W PFC Compatible unit. I suspect it's a communication problem between the driver and the unit. It still works to shut down if I pull the plug, so I'm not too worried about it. The problem is that if I go a few weeks without logging in, I can have hundreds of these notices. No matter where I have them appear, they tend to obscure the rest of the interface, especially when I'm using a tablet. Is there a way to dismiss them all at once? Or keep them from overlaying the rest of the interface? I cannot seem to find a setting to do this, and suspect there isn't a way, but I wanted to ask to see if someone else knows of one. I'd prefer not to disable Alerts in the web interface altogether in the Notification Settings, but if there is a better way to review, manage, and clear them, I'd be glad to know it. Thanks for any replies. Kevin

Yes, in both the main and backup unRAIDs.

No. I do not.

32 GB in the main server. 4 GB I. The backup server.

Thanks for your thoughts. I hadn't considered the DDR4 memory issue. Kevin

Like many, with the introduction of unRAID 6 final, I'm going to take the plunge on a building a new unRAID server, with my current aging Core 2 Duo/Supermicro C2SEA server being moved to backup server duties. The SuperMicro X10SL7-F seems well liked here, but the other board I'm considering is the SuperMicro X10SDV-TLN4F, which uses the Xeon D1540 instead of the Xeon E3-1200 series. I'm interested to hear if anyone has used a Xeon D board like this one. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon/D/X10SDV-TLN4F.cfm With the support of Dockers, I'm tempted to think the greater number of cores in the Xeon D would offer more advantages than the higher clock speed of the E3. My primary interest is in running unRAID with Dockers for Plex (which will need to be doing transcoding), as well as SABnzbd, Sick Beard, and Logitech Media Server. Is the E3-1200 series simply so powerful that 4 cores/8 threads is more than enough, or would the slower 8-core/16-thread processor a better choice? I know that it's not necessarily a question with a black and white answer, but I would appreciate hearing what some of you also think, and I thank you for sharing your thoughts. Kevin

Can you elaborate on what this means? I've been planning to build a second server to replace my aging server (a Supermicro C2SEA with 3 GHz C2D, which will go to backup server duty), and have previously been happy with my old Supermicro board and was tentatively planning to use another of their boards in the new server. I have no experience with IPMI, but my reading suggests it would be worth having, as the security concerns I've read about with IPMI 2 don't worry me on my private LAN. Thank you. Kevin

Thank you! That answers my question. Kevin

I'm currently running unRAID 5.04 (Pro) with six 2 TB drives, 5 data and 1 parity. I'm adding 3 drives to the array, two are 3 TB, one is 4TB. Obviously the 4 TB drive needs to be the parity drive. I've read the manual on replacing the parity drive, but I'd like to repurpose that as a data drive. The new drives have all been precleared. My question is this: Can I simply stop the array and change the disk assignments, assigning the 4 TB drive to parity, then the two new drives to data and the old parity drive to data? I know I'll have to do a parity check to rebuild parity. I don't want to physically replace current parity drive, but I can go through shutting down, physically pulling the drive, restarting, then shut down and add the other drives if it's necessary, it just doesn't seem like it should be, and it seems like reassigning the drives should work, but I wanted to ask. I hope my question is clear. If not, please let me know and I'll try to clarify. Thanks. Kevin

Well, I solved my problem. The motherboard has a BIOS setting to activate Vt-d. I didn't think this would need to be on, as I'm not doing any kind of virtualization, however activating it fixed the problems and the drives attached to the card are now seen. Thanks to everyone for their feedback. Hope this helps someone else, too. Off to preclear some drives! Kevin

Hi Thanks for the response. Yes, I flashed it to the LSI 9211-8i firmware, P17 (not the P14 version you mentioned). After booting the unRAID, is there a way to query the system to see if the LSI drivers are loaded and/or see if the system recognizes that the card is in the slot? Thanks again. Kevin

I have an unRAID running 5.04 running on a SuperMicro C2SEA motherboard. I recently installed an IBM M1015 that has been flashed to IT mode. I placed it in the single PCI-Express 2 slot on the motherboard, but when boot the array, it doesn't appear to see the card at all. When I stop the array it shows slots for drives 6-23 and a cache drive, but none of the drives attached to the card are recognized. I've reseated the card and verified all the connections to be secure. My understanding is that v5 of unRAID has drivers for this card built in. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I'm happy to provide any other information that may be helpful. Thank you.