msteger

That 12TB disk was a gift from the Ebay Gods. I purchased a 10TB to use for parity and a 12TB came. Thought about selling it but then decided "Gift Horse" / "Mouth" well you know. Most of the other drives are shucks. Shucking is getting risky though, I have two (Western Digital) where I had to disable pin 3, which does work but is a royal pain. As for the cooling, the problem drive dropped when I was away on vacation. It was 115 in AZ last week so who knows how hot the computer room got. In the computer, I have 5 huge fans pushing air from front to back and top to bottom but I am going to add more around the LSI card just to be safe. That bad boy does get warm to the touch. Thanks for the good advice, I have noticed some are even replacing the heatsink on the LSI board with a good quality mini cooler. Might be something to think about. M

OK, I figured it out. Thanks everyone for making me look in a different direction. I started looking at the two drives that were constantly the issue, it didn't seem to matter which SATA port they were plugged into and they were next to each other. That made me wonder about the power. They were both connected to the same power connector with a splitter cable. I threw that cable away, (it was a high quality one) and used another splitter connected to a different power and all is well again. So I think my chain of events is as follows: 1. I just figured out the downstairs AC is not working great, it has been 82 degrees in the computer area all morning. This may have caused the LSI card to overheat making a single drive drop. 2. In my attempts to fix it, I must have broken or bent some part of that power cable so no matter what I did and how I connected things SATA wise it was no good. Lesson from all of this is - just because a drive has power and works it doesn't mean that you can rule out the power connection as the problem. Thanks All!

Thanks for the suggestion. Changed the cables on 1 and 3 and connected them to different SATA ports. Removed the LSI card to let it cool, re-installed, put a fan directly on it and got the same result (State 2). I re-attached the new diag files to this reply. jabba-diagnostics-20190705-1447.zip

Hi Friends, I am back to having trouble again which is very odd because nothing has changed other than an upgrade which I rolled back and still have the same issues. So, in summary this is what I am seeing: I can get the server into 1 of 2 states. State 1: I have two drives that report errors and eventually drop off. These are fairly new drives that work fine before the array is started and there are not smart issues that I can see. In this state the parity rebuilds are of an expected speed. The drives that get knocked off are always connected to the LSI board although I have other drives connected that work OK. State 2: Same drives, no write or read errors but parity checks estimate 300 days. I let it run overnight and it only completed 36GB out of 12 TB. The states change randomly as I connect different drives to different ports (motheboard, versus LSI). I can't seem to pinpoint an exact cause and effect. I worked with this for over 12 hours yesterday and this build has been running for years on the same hardware. The motherboard has 2 SATA chips with a total of 10 SATA ports. I am currently in state 2 which I obtained by disabling one of the motherboard SATA chips and connecting all drives to the First set of motherboard ports and the LSI board. I am thinking this is some kind of IRQ or conflict. Odd thing is that since I upgraded the firmware on the LSI board I have not had any issues for months. The firmware is the 20.0.0.9 version. Note, I have tried new cables and I have two LSI boards (both 20.0.0.9 IT mode, the second one is an older 9220-8I) which exhibit the exact same behavior. I even tried disabling all of the motherboard ports and using the two cards which resulted in State 1 again. The last time this happened the LSI firmware update seemed to solve the issue. Also note that I had a VM with Video pass-through working on this machine with no issues. The first thing I did when my first drive dropped was to disable VM's and remove the graphics card. I also disabled all of the serial ports, the Bluetooth and the Wi-fi from the motherboard with no effect. Thanks for any help, I ordered an Adaptec SAS card (which doesn't come in until next week) to see if it is some LSI compatibility issue with the motherboard. My diagnostics are attached. M jabba-diagnostics-20190705-1223.zip

Hi All, I am having intermittent problems with drives dropping off the array due to read errors. This has happened with multiple drives always connected to the LSI 9207 card. I I am on the 7.35 firmware. I have 4 drives connected to it currently working fine. I have had 5 in the past but I am now in a state where no matter what drive I connect to any of the rest of the LSI ports, I get read errors. Tried switching cables with no luck, this is even a new LSI board, the last one resulted in similar issues. I know that I am very close on PCI lanes due to a VM with pass through although this happens even without the VM running.. What are your thoughts? I am on the latest stable Unraid 6.6.6. On the plus side no data loss yet because of how great Unraid is.

My motherboard has 2 Network ports on board. I use to have them setup as "Bonded" and "Active Backup". I recently added a Windows 10 VM that I want to use with RDP so I had to remove the bonding and add a bridge so it gets an IP from my router. That said, is there any way that I can use the two network cards while still being able to address the VM? I know that I can passthrough one directly to the VM but I found a post that said doing that would slow down the VM's access to the drives on the server. I am not interested in trying to get 2GB transfers but more interested in multi-tasking (4K streaming, downloading a file, while using the Windows VM for some network intensive activities at the same time). Thoughts??

That was easy, she started right up. Thanks for the assist

Hello, I am trying to setup a virtual machine and my VM Manager always reports "stopped" even after setting up the required shares. I have 6.3.6 and my system does support HVM and IOMMU. I attached the syslog file jabba-syslog-20170902-0335.zip and an image showing the sysinfo page. My setup is standard other then I have two network cards with the second one set as "Active Backup". Thanks in advance for helping.

Hello, Thanks for your response, to answer the question, it doesn't have enough CPU (I Think). Plex stops and buffers when SABNZD is unpacking. Thanks for the advice on the cpu pinning, I tried this in the "Extra Parameters" --cpuset-cpus 6,7 for the SABNZD docker. It doesn't seem to help all of the CPU's still look utilized with the system doing nothing else. The system is a Core i7 2600K so it should have plenty of power. Any other ideas on how to limit SABNZD? Even the Unraid web interface is slow when it unpacks.

Hi All, I just switched to this Plex docker and it works but when SABNzbd is doing it's thing Plex experiences "Dropouts" where the player says "the server doesn't have enough......." and stops. This didn't happen before I moved plex from the official Unraid version on the plex web page to the docker. Is there any way to give one docker priority over another? During an unpacking event the CPU usage according to the Unraid dashboard is 50 to 70 percent. The machine it runs on is a Sandy Bridge Core I7 with nothing else running but Unraid and dockers (no VM's). I love Plex in the docker, so much easier to restart and upgrade but I am thinking of going back to the old way if there is not way to prevent the playback issues. Thoughts?

Hi All, I got it to work but I can't add books, has anyone else seen this? It finds them, you click add and it goes back to an empty book list.

I too gave up on mcmyadmin and went to mineos which works great. How would I give it more memory? The dashboard lists 384 of 256 used which seems odd. Works though, thoughts?

Great, that seems to be working, thanks a bunch!!! One more question, when using Docker or the new Plugin for Plex will I have to reset the permissions as MC is running as root?

Hi Everyone, I am looking for some advice, I am upgrading to Unraid 6 from 5 and I also want to use a cache pool for cache, docker and appdata. The issue is that my old cache drive is in the old format and I want to use new SSD drives for the cache pool. I think I understand all of the concepts but I am running into trouble getting Plex data off of the old drive. What is the easiest way to copy the Plex data (Which is an insane number of files) from the old cache drive to the new cache pool? Copying with windows works but some files are "locked" even with Plex stopped. So far my approach has been: 1. Start the array with the old drive with all plugins (plex included) disabled. 2. Using windows copy the data to a temp drive location on the windows machine. (This is my problem, all files won't copy). 3. Stop the array, configure the new cache pool. 4. Using Windows to copy the files back onto the new cache pool in the same folders. 5. Configure Docker plugins. Would it be easier to use MC to copy data off of the old cache drive to the new pool after it has been formatted? If so how do I mount the old drive?

What were the problems? I am seeing exactly the same things?