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Hi, maybe this will help: Export/Import Funktion nutzen

Wunderbar! Thank you @hawihoney 👍

Thanks @Russ Uno! Setup with your screenshot now everything's working just fine!

Quick solution 17.01.2024: Since I have no script/programming skills but I really want this "safety net of SMART tests" for my array I looked around what I could achieve myself, this is what I found... And believe it or not it's working successfully 😉 Step 1: install "User Scripts" via the CA plugin/app store Step 2: go to the "User Scripts" plugin and set up a new script (please find screenshots attached) Step 3: find the correct /dev/sdX (X stands for the letter of your array HDD, look under "MAIN" in your Unraid GUI) of all your array HDDs you want to test and then paste commands in your new script you find in the second screenshot attached. As I have 6 HDDs in my array atm my letters run from b, c, d, e, f to g (parity HDD included) Step 4: save the script and let it test run in the background Step 5: check your logs. If everything went smoothly you can now add a cron schedule at which the script should run. For me (see screenhot 1) I run the script daily at 1 minute past 1 o'clock ( 01.01 am) The script only runs a daily SMART short selftest, for adding a weekly SMART long/extend test you can write "smartctl -d ata -tlong /dev/sdX" (X stands for the letter of your array HDD) Hope that was helpful for all of you with no scripting skills like myself and please feel free and comment this. Constructive criticism very welcome since I have no script/programming skills.

Thanks @Russ Uno for your posting. I'll try this, maybe it'll also solve my problems

Ok, thanks your your response. I'm definitely not able to write a user script but maybe such a script is also on someone else's wish list and this is a vibrant community so we'll see...

Being an Unraid newbie because I've been running TrueNAS servers for 4-5 years now, please correct me if I'm wrong: In the last years I avoided some critical data loss because of failing HDDs: as a kind of an early warning system I ran a script on my (TrueNAS) servers that ran a a daily SMART short self-test and a weekly SMART extended self-test. I'm not sure wether Unraid: does run SMART tests out of the box on a regularly basis? if it's possible there is a script that can achieve this? (e.g. via user scripts plugin?) if this is necessary with Unraid or does Unraid provide some other kind of automated early warning system regarding HDD/SSD damage/erros? Thank you very much for your input, I did not find anything like this script in the forum or CA.

Please allow me to look again in the direction that started this post but of course thank you very much for your input Filling my array with precleared HDDs atm and it's just a "smooth sailing" along with Docker, this fantastic community and all the community apps. It's fun and thanks to everybody being involved with Unraid. Really loving it!!! So for me the decision towards the Supermicro X13SAE-F was a good but not cheap one. I always found the idracs of Dell servers very useful for troubleshooting and the Supermicro has also a kind of online IPMI so this also was something which made me choose it. Of course other (much cheaper) brands would have been possible (thanks for your recommendations) but I hope for the next 5+ years I will not have to shut Unraid down. Let's see

Yes, it's working just fine with it's GUID. Thanks for your recommendation.

Just a short update for anyone who is interested: I found the LSI HBA 9201-8I was a very reliable HBA for many years in my TrueNAS servers BUT not for this actual built. So without it, everything is working just fine for me with this built and being an Unraid "firsttimer" I must say that I really love Unraid!!! Filling my array with precleared HDDs atm and it's just a "smooth sailing" along with Docker, this fantastic community and all the community apps. It's fun and thanks to everybody being involved with Unraid.

Thank you @JorgeB for all your help! I wasted too much time on troubleshooting so I kicked the LSI HBA 9201 out, wired all my disks directly to the mobo and its 8 Sata ports and bought an Adaptec 1430SA for the remaining HDDs. The Adaptec 1430SA hasn't arrived yet but the rest works like charm and up until now I'm happy with my Unraid setup. Let's see what happens when parity sync is through... Lesson learned: no LSI SAS2008 / LSI HBA 9201-8I for me anymore...

Did all of this, even exchanged the controller for an LSI HBA 9201-8i (also flashed to IT mode)... everytime the same. No disks to be seen. The problem seems to be the BIOS setup of the SuperMicro X13SAE-F. Because it will only boot in UEFI mode (there's no setting to boot in legacy mode) it's not possible to hit "CTRL-C" in POST so you can't change controller settings. You can change the LSI controller settings when you're in the X13SAE-F BIOS settings, please see attached screenshots. So there it is possible to disable legacy boot but nothing changes. When being in the LSI BIOS via the X13SAE-F BIOS the controller sees all HDDs which are attached (screenshot below) BUT outside of the LSI BIOS so when you're back in the X13SAE-F BIOS you should e.g. be able to select the HDD you want which is attached to the controller. This is not the case because the X13SAE-F BIOS sees only "UEFI hard disk" but this is just generic and not one of the HDDs being attached to the controller. So: if the BIOS can't see the LSI controller attached HDDs I think neither Unraid nor Ubuntu etc. are able to see the HDDs later on. The card worked perfectly with TrueNAS for 4 years but the reason was (I think) that everything was legacy boot and not UEFI... Really don't know what do to tried every possible BIOS setup in the X13SAE-F and the controller cards BIOS but it just won't work. Perhaps anyone that has a X13SAE-F mobo can answer how the boot their machine with which settings. Thank you :-) not possible to select any HDD attached to LSI HBA inside the LSI HBA BIOS all 6 attached disks are seen inside LSI HBA BIOS I disabled legacy boot but that solved nothing...

Did both things you suggested but still no HDDs to be seen if they're connected to the LSI SAS2008... Any ideas? Thank you in advance.

Will try both and keep you posted! Thank you very much for your quick reply and help! Already loving this forum!

I hope I've done this right? Thank you in advance.