papnikol

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  1. First thank you very much for your willingness to help. I also learned about the concept of Rebuilding a drive onto itself. I would usually do a new config and accept the array. I hope to exploit it, hopefully, for one last time So, I removed drive 8 and its emulated counterpart seems to be working. I also mounted drive 8 as unassigned and it seems to work but, still, although I changed cables, the SMART test seems to get stuck at 90%, while it works for other drives. This is a bit strange, so I am thinking of using another drive for a rebuild. Does that make sense? Also, would it hurt if I simultaneously allowed the new 2nd parity to rebuild? That would allow me to be sooner protected from another failure...
  2. Thanks a lot. Disks 1, 2, 3 (along with 4) share both the same SATA splitter and miniSAS. I will have to investigate. Just a few clarifications: what do you mean by that? since disk 8 is redballed, wouldn't the only way to mount it be to take it out of the array? Should I take it out of the array and try mounting with UD? (btw, I changed SATA cable and it still gets stuck at 90% of the short SMART test) -What exactly do you mean by "rebuild on top"? Accept disk 8 as good and rebuild the new parity drive?
  3. Hi everyone,, I posted this question to r/unraid but I am posting it here too because it is somehow urgent: I have an array with dual parity. A few days ago I decided to replace both parity drives with larger ones (16TB). The first parity drive replacement went smoothly. The second parity sync stuck at some point and I had to reboot. When I came back one data drive was red balled. I run a short SMART test but it gets stuck at 90% (I tried other drives and they completed their short SMART test). This indicates that the drive might be problematic. So, my situation is: One of the 2 parity drives is un-synced and one data drive might need to be replaced. I also have a feeling that another disk might be on the verge of failing. What is the optimal solution:? replace the redballed disk with my previous parity drive (which was obviously removed from the array) and have the array simultaneously rebuild the new parity drive and the failed drive. 1st rebuild the new parity drive and then the failed data drive (so, 2 runs) Remove the new parity drive, accept the array as correct and check if the drive works. Then, if it works, add again the second parity drive for parity sync Some other solution I have not though of... Any input is welcome towerp-diagnostics-20240314-1206.zip
  4. No, you were, I get it now. So, a viable solution would be to use a splitter with only 2 SATA connectors? Again, do you think I could use 1 splitter on every connector of the PSU cable? like that (where every "[" is a 1->2 splitter): PSU | | |----[ | |----[ | |----[ | |----[
  5. I see. Yet, my Corsair has 4 SATA connectors on one cable. Maybe it is specifically made////
  6. And they are easier to find, but, generally, from all the comments in various forums, the common wisdom is that they should be avoided (although that is what I have been using up to now)
  7. Interesting, can you please point me to the source?
  8. There are a few but they are relatively expensive: https://de.pcpartpicker.com/products/power-supply/#A=550000000000,2050000000000&D=20&sort=price&page=1&E=5,14 So, going back to the original question(s):
  9. No, I am talking about this: Thanks for the info, I am aware, but even many good quality 750W PSUs usually do not have enough connectors to accommodate 20 drives. Whenever I built a PC, the last thing I use to cut costs is the PSU, but, obviously, I am trying to avoid buying something that I dont need, hence the power extenders (I also happen to have them at hand).
  10. Hi everyone, I am looking for a PSU that will power many HDDs/SDDs (up to 20). I can buy a PSU with 6 cables, with 4x and 2x SATA connectors but these are higher wattage PSUs that are unnecessarily expensive for my purpose. Trying to avoid IDE -> 4x SATA cables, I wanted to try for my first time SATA expanders. So, I have 2 questions: 1. Is it safe to connect a 4x SATA expander to a 4x SATA cable (thus having 7 drives per cable in total)? 2. Is it better to connect the expander at the 1st or the last connector of the SATA cable. Or is it of no importance? Thanks in advance for your answers....
  11. So I tried various proposed stuff (and was away for a bit, sorry for taking too many days to get back to you after your prompt inputs). What I found out is by disabling docker, the problem was fixed. Additionally, I noticed in the dashboard that docker was using quite a lot of memory, when enabled. More particularly 67% of my 6GBs, which is almost 4GBs. I noticed that in my other unraid machine docker was also using ~4GB. I do not understand why that would be since all my containers were stopped. Maybe the memory is reserved by docker?
  12. Thanks a lot for the input. I will boot normally and when the problem occurs again (I am guessing soon), I will post the diagnostics. I might try that too, afterwards. A plugin might be the problem but I seriously doubt it has something to do with Docker since I am nor running automatically any of the installed plugins.
  13. Hi everyone, I am using unraid v6.11.3. Suddenly (without me having made any significant changes), the user shares have started disappearing and they do not reappear until I reboot. Initially it happened once in a while but it keeps happening more and more often (3 times today). Here is what I tried (having also searched the forum for suggestions): 1. Tried stopping and restarting the array - didn't work 2. Changed Settings > Global Share Settings > Tunable (support Hard Links) to "No" - didn't work 3. I have some Docker Containers but they are not running so I dont think they could be the problem 4. Updated all apps - didn't work 5. Checked the XFS filesystem in all disks EDIT: I just noticed an error in the logs: Could this be the problem? My server has 6GB and I am running cache_dirs (folder caching). I also have a LOT of files in the server. I always had but they have been slowly increasing. Could I have reached a limit where the memory is somehow filled? Any help would be very welcome as my server has been rendered unusable.
  14. I just stumbled upon this this Silverstone "ECS07 - 5-Port SATA Gen3 6Gbps Non-RAID M.2 PCIe storage expansion card". I just wanted to mention it because it seems like a very interesting alternative. If a Mobo has 2 M.2 slots one could easily add 10 SATA ports. If they work as advertised, I would certainly prefer them to HBAs. One big caveat is that the price has not been released yet so I dont know if they cost 50 or 500 euros....
  15. I hate it when people try to help me and I seemingly ignore them. I read your answers but I had to be away for >1 month. When I came back, 1 HDD was dead so I first had to replace it. Now the problem has disappeared for some reason. Thanks for your input and know that i did not ignore your input (at least intentionally)...
  16. I did not notice any such errors in the systems log. Thanks for pointing me to the upcoming changes. I think I will wait for 6.10.3, so as not to bother anyone for no reason, and come back if the problem persists.
  17. I had already done all the above but I did not think to try the private mode. unfortunately, it did not change anything. PS: Just to be sure, I tried a fresh Firefox portable but I get the same results...
  18. Hi, I upgraded from 6.9.2 straight to 6.10.2. I noticed that, after the upgrade, for some reason, the main window content takes a few seconds to load (and meanwhile it shows as in the attached file). This happens in Firefox but not in e.g. chrome. It is a bit annoying but minor, I am just mentioning because I dont think it has been already mentioned.
  19. Hi, I have encountered an error that (from what I managed to find) I have not seen mentioned somewhere else. I was trying to benchmark this controller: MV64460/64461/64462 System Controller, Revision B Marvell Technology Group Ltd. RAID bus controller Type: Add-on Card in PCIe Slot 2 (x1 PCI Express) Current & Maximum Link Speed: 2.5GT/s width x4 (1 GB/s max throughput) Capabilities: storage pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom Port 1: sdj 8TB Seagate ST8000AS0002 Rev AR17 (Disk 13) Port 2: sdk 2TB Western Digital WD20EARX Rev 51.0AB51 (Disk 7) Port 3: sdl 4TB Western Digital WD40EFRX Rev 82.00A82 (Disk 9) Port 4: sdm 2TB Western Digital WD20EARS Rev 80.00A80 (Disk 3) Port 5: sdn 8TB Seagate ST8000DM004 Rev 0001 (Disk 12) Port 6: sdo 8TB Western Digital WD80EZAZ Rev 83.H0A83 Port 7: sdp 8TB Western Digital WD80EZAZ Rev 83.H0A83(Parity) I should add that according to the manual for the mobo, this slot is suposed to be PCIe v.2 (PCI Express 2.0 x16 Slot (PCIE5 @ x4 mode) which seems different with what Diskspeed is reporting. and I get the following error (the error appears when the "Benchmarking Parity (sdp)" bar reaches 100%).. What could be causing it? container run: I should also mention that i have this controller in the same mobo and it is benchmarked with no problems (although it might also be misreported) : MV64460/64461/64462 System Controller, Revision B Super Micro Computer Inc (Marvell Technology Group Ltd.) SCSI storage controller Type: Onboard Controller Current & Maximum Link Speed: 2.5GT/s width x4 (1 GB/s max throughput) Capabilities: scsi pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
  20. Sorry @Alex R. Berg, somehow I missed your comment (and, again, thank you for your contribution). Your strategy is useful for cases like yours, but for cases like mine, where I cannot foresee which file I will need to use, It is not very helpful. Additionally - and this might be less important - in my windows machine I use Everything for indexing/searching, and cache_dirs works well with it... Still, thanks for sharing your scripts, one additional value for me is that they can help improve my shell scripting....
  21. I actually remember @Joe L., I had one or two very pleasurable interactions with him. I both hope that he is having a good time and also that @Alex R. Berg keeps maintaining cache_dirs
  22. @Alex R. Bergyou have a sincere "thank you" from me. just 2 questions for anyone invloved: The thing is, I think cache_dirs is very important (at least to me). If you have many disks you have to wait a long time for a listing. What do people who do not use it do? Is there an alternative? Why does Joe not still maintain it? Is there an "official" reason i have missed?
  23. Hi, I am having a similar problem, Mobo is booting, 2 green LEDs turn on but I have no image from the GPU. There might be an incompatibility but shouldn't the Dr Debug LED show something? It never turns on. Does anyone know if the Dr Debug LED always shows something or only when there is an error?