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I too have had problems with spaces in share names. CamelCassing and Underscore_separation both seem to work well

both my unraid machines are on apc smart-ups 1000. This machine is on a brand new 1000 battery set My main unraid server is OFF for now - we are being hit with a blizzard, so this machine may still need to be turned off - but we are also between 2 LARGE switching stations so our power outages are seldom longer than a hour (though brownouts are NASTY), and the 1000 lets this power hungry machine run for about 1.5 hours sans juice

1 - no autostart, 1 hour spindown delay, each disk set to use default 2 - neither would spin down with no data on them, now 1 of the 2 has data (but is going through a new config/parity rebuild) 3 - one of the needed add-ons! at this point, no. This will be added after each share has a fully robocopy from my main server. the only add-ons at this point are unmenu (for ups/clean powerdown, and screen).

strange - this may have been caused from a disabled disk in the array. ran a new confg, removed the bad data disk (which had no data on it), and now it is not replicating.

thanks crew! data transfer was stopped when power went out after first 15" of snow arrived... it has been back up for a little while now. 1 - first 4 TB preclear was NEARLY done when the server shut down... dang - restarted. 2 - new config run 3 - good parity disk, disk 1 (65.1 GB/3TB free), disk 3 (now 2 - 1.11TB/2TB free), 2 cache drives - rebuilding parity. NO other drives in array. ... fingers crossed that power stays up at least 9 hours to allow array to become protected.

thanks Gary - when we have power back up consistently (middle of a blizzard here) I will pound away on this. The first 2 reboots after starting up a cache pool I had to rebalance for the capacity shown on the cache drive to indicate a raid-1.

I have an assortment of drives on this server. My 2 TB data WDC WD20EARS never spin down. I will probably just replace these 2 2TB drives with a 4 TB HGST the next time one goes on sale. Anything anyone would like me to provide while these are still in my machine?

Good day Crew - new server is up and running 6b12. All disks passed 3 levels of preclear. Data disks XFS, Parity BTRFS raid 1 pool. Parity 4TB HGST_HDN724040ALE640, Disk 1 3TB WDC_WD30EZRX-00MMMB0, Disk 2 3TB ST33000651AS Parity built and looks good. Using Fill up with 70 GB free/level. Using ROBOCOPY to copy contents from //TOWER/sharename to //TOWER2/sharename by share. I am doing this is steps to keep each shares data on 1 disk as much as possible. After writing about 100 GB to Disk 2 that disk was disabled. Smart no longer reports. I deleted the contents off of disk 2 and I have been copying via robocopy to //TOWER2/DISK3/sharename. I do not trust this drive, and it is my only 3 TB seagate around. I have a 4 TB HGST preclearing now to replace this. 1 - May I check parity with a disabled disk? 2 - Once the 3rd preclear looks good may I simply stop the array, swap out disk2, restart the array, rebuild parity? Thanks

bump? any advice?

Good day crew - I am using 2 1 TB WD Red drives as a cache pool (v6b12) After booting up TOWER2 the 2 Cache drives show as 2 TB worth of unprotected Cache available. By navigating to MAIN/CACHE/CACHE and clicking onto Balance (-dconvert=raid1 -mconvert=raid1) I can convert the array to a Raid 1 and I see 1 TB worth of data post Balance. How do I keep the balance / raid 1 selection persistent? Thanks everyone FYI I can fully saturate my networks writes to a raid 1 cache pool... NO need for additional speed of a raid 0 .

I decided to keep the Asus board but tested this on our work rig. With 4 data drives on the machine we have noticed no slowdown in access or writes. We use this machine to do 8 windows backups within a small time frame and 4 Cobian backups. Parity checks are not noticeably slower - usually they take about 4.5 hours and now they take about 5 hours. I do not currently have the ability to check speeds using 8 drives.

looks like this is normal behaviour http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=21465.0 A couple hoops must be jumped through to keep these suckers spun down.

The server starts with the disks spinning and they just do not stop... UNRAID doesn't touch drives not assigned to the Array or Cache slots. Currently I have 1 data drive in the array and 3 precleared drives not mounted on my SASLP controller. The 3 drives are NOT spinning down. The Cache drive is on the motherboard ANY guidance would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.

The server starts with the disks spinning and they just do not stop...

Strange - 6.0-beta5a - no longer do disks outside of the array (and NOT being used/mounted/etc) spin down. If I manually spin them down they kick back up after just a few minutes.

done and thank you. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=33147.0

I am setting up a new unraid machine with XEN (dom 0 unraid, dom 1 ubuntu, dom 2 8.1) This brings in a host of new warnings and errors - would someone be so kind to give me some advice on these? Full log attached. Thank you i5-2500 ASUS P8H77-V LE SeaSonic X Series X650 CORSAIR Vengeance LP 16GB (2 x 8GB) SASLP (for DATA drives only) 5 Port USB card for 8.1 passthrough AMD GPU for 8.1 passthrough SSD Evo 500 GB for VM Cache only Warnings Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: PM-Timer failed consistency check (0x0xffffff) - aborting. (Minor Issues) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: Warning: Processor Platform Limit not supported. (Minor Issues) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Warning: 0x000000000000f040-0x000000000000f05f SystemIO conflicts with Region \_SB_.PCI0.SBUS.SMBI 1 (20130328/utaddress-251) (Minor Issues) Apr 29 03:59:28 Tower2 emhttp: shcmd (7): killall -HUP smbd (Minor Issues) Apr 29 03:59:28 Tower2 avahi-daemon[1437]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! (Minor Issues) Apr 29 03:59:28 Tower2 avahi-daemon[1437]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns! (Minor Issues) Apr 29 03:59:28 Tower2 emhttp: shcmd (15): killall -HUP smbd (Minor Issues) Errors Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psargs-359) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node ffff880064789e38), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psparse-537) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psargs-359) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.SPT2._GTF] (Node ffff880064789dc0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psparse-537) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psargs-359) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.SPT2._GTF] (Node ffff880064789dc0), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psparse-537) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: [DSSP] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psargs-359) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.SPT3._GTF] (Node ffff880064789e38), AE_NOT_FOUND (20130328/psparse-537) (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: usb 3-4: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: usb 3-4: device not accepting address 4, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:05 Tower2 kernel: usb 3-4: device not accepting address 5, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:16 Tower2 kernel: usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:31 Tower2 kernel: usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:58:47 Tower2 kernel: usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:59:03 Tower2 kernel: usb 5-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:59:14 Tower2 kernel: usb 5-2: device not accepting address 4, error -110 (Errors) Apr 29 03:59:25 Tower2 kernel: usb 5-2: device not accepting address 5, error -110 (Errors) syslog-2014-04-29.txt

thank you

Good day forumites. I am using Joe-L's awesome preclear_disk to ensure that some recylced drives are OK for service. a 3TB segate drives preclear report is showing a few items - the only ones I believe can be ignored are raw-read-error-rate and airflow temp. Is this drive OK? (and thanks!) ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdc /tmp/smart_finish_sdc ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE Raw_Read_Error_Rate = 114 118 6 ok 68518886 Seek_Error_Rate = 60 100 30 ok 1026517 Spin_Retry_Count = 100 100 97 near_thresh 0 End-to-End_Error = 100 100 99 near_thresh 0 Airflow_Temperature_Cel = 56 66 45 near_thresh 44 Temperature_Celsius = 44 34 0 ok 44 Hardware_ECC_Recovered = 33 28 0 ok 68518886 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW

This is exactly the type of answer I was looking for Gary! Thank you GREATLY. Given that I only do parity checks once a month (on about 12 GB of data) - I am not certain I am terribly concerned. Many Cheers!

I have just purchased an entire new motherboard & ram as my current motherboard only has 1xPCIe16, 2xPCIe1, and 1x1pci_legacy I need a x16 for my GPU in XEN passthrough, but I also need to use a Supermicro SASLP-MV8 which has a x4 connector I have just run across a - 1X to 16X Powered PCI-E PCI Express Riser Card Extension USB 3.0 - which appears to let one use a x16/8/4/1 card in a x1 slot. Is it OK to run 8 Hard-drives on Supermicro's SASLP-MV8 in a PCIex1 slot using these? http://www.ebay.com/itm/1X-to-16X-Powered-PCI-E-PCI-Express-Riser-Card-Extension-USB-3-0-SATA-Cable-/251427575395?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3a8a405663 http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SASLP-MV8.cfm If so, It appears as if I do NOT need a whole new motherboard/ram THANK YOU

Thank you SMH. Enjoy!

Thanks Thornwood! SMH - what does your schedule look like? Want to meet at the Imax Theater parking Lot?

Thornwood, can you let me know by Sunday 22nd if you are purchasing? Thank you Thornwood and SMH

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