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Can the Popbox V8 be the problem? With 5.0Beta14, I had no problem with the V8.

My disks are set to public, ran the new permission script, when my Popbox V8 tried to access, I got the log on screen demanding user ID and password which I have never used. Tried to create a new user with password, Cannot sign with new user!!! 5RC11 did something bad since the 5Beta14 worked perfectly, no log on ever showed up. Please some body tell me how to get rid of this log on screen since I would want to build a newer server using the new 5 final and not my 5Beta.

I have a Popcorn V8 connected to my Unraid to play movies. Unraid 5.0 Beta14 ran perfectly. But I heard that Unraid 5.0-RC11 was pretty stable so I upgraded. I have spent the better part of 2 days trying to get rid of the log on screen on my Popbox V8 to Unraid. With version 5 beta 14 there was no log on screen. I ran the new permission several times to the same effect. I tried to add a new user and PW and can not sign in with that either. So I reverted back to 5Beta14 and got rid of the log on screen. I never had any user ID nor PW. I am nobody-users as per the new permission. One day soon, I need to upgrade to 5 Final, how do I get rid of the log on screen? Update: So I tried again. Installed 5.0-RC11, ran the new permission, check that all the disks were set to public. In short everything were the same settings as in 5.0Beta14. And same results again, new log on screen, Tried to create a new user with password, cannot sign in no matter what. Does anybody know how to get rid of the log on screen except by reverting back to 5.0Beta14? Thanks in advance. Update 2: No matter what 5.0-RC11 did something to my server (details in my signature below), the damned log on screen prevent any use of my server. I just found it exasperating to have problem with a near final release. May be it's not happening to anybody else since nobody seems to have any idea of what I am talking about.

That's normal and setup by default by the Seagate firmware. I actually used 254 to reduce the chirping noise and head parking and not to shutdown the APM. There was some talk that Seagate engineers knew about the problem but elected to use 128 APM because of reliability issues. Not sure about that, but I am just playing it safe.

Did you have any luck turning it off? hdparm -Z /dev/xxx didn't seem to do the trick for me. FYI: == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 6:02:43 (137 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 15:48:04 (52 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 12:46:29 (65 MB/s) Try hdparm -B 255 /dev/xxx Verify with -I . Let me know if that works for you.

Thank you Joe. I really appreciate your help. I have learnt so much from you. My server is running fine right now. I am really apprehensive about fixing what's not broken !!! But I am a tinkerer by nature !!!

I am fairly sure that the APM (Advanced Power Managment) of these drives were defaulted to ON and caused clicking sound when idle i.e. head parking. If anybody knows how to disable the APM of these Seagate drives already installed in Unraid please let me know. Some have reported that HDPARM utility can disable the APM. I am unfamiliar with this and alread posted in the Support section. "HDD APM explained in brief The Advanced Power Management feature present in virtually all modern hard disk drives is aimed to save energy and power supply by regulating the performance of the hard disk drive. Power consumption is reduced by parking the drive heads when the disk is not in use, by adjusting spin speeds, and disabling internal components when not in use. Aggressive power saving settings allow the hard disk drive to stop its spindle motor and park heads more frequently, which allows saving as much energy as possible, but leads to increased deterioration of mechanics and delays on drive reads caused by waiting the magnetic disks to spin up to the necessary speed. In other words saving energy is achieved by decreasing performance and to a certain extent shortens drive life."

I recently installed a couple of Seagate drives in my Unraid 5.14B. The Seagates have APM (Advanced Power Management) ON by default. To disable it (clicking noise, head parking etc...), one can use HDPARM tool or so I was led to believe. My question is " Does Unraid support the HDPARM utility?" Can I just use Putty to connect to my server and use HPPARM on each drive? Or is there an easier method? There is a Windows version of HDPARM, can I use this to disable APM in my Unraid drives if Unraid does not support HDPARM?

Click on the Modify at the right hand side of your post and changed your title to SOLVED.

Same here. Working fine in Unraid, fast and cool. Here is the info on the drive: === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: ST3000DM001-9YN166 Serial Number: LU WWN Device Id: 5 000c50 ***** Firmware Version: CC9E User Capacity: 3,000,592,982,016 bytes [3.00 TB] Sector Sizes: 512 bytes logical, 4096 bytes physical Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 4 Local Time is: Sun Jul 15 09:40:10 2012 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled

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Look at the date of manufacture on the drive. I have 2 of the ST3000DM001 manufactured in China on 04/2012 firmware CE9E with the power down option turned off by default. The 2 drives have been precleared and added as data drives. They seem to be OK so far. There is apparently some firmware available for older drives.

Thank you. That is exactly what I will do.

Only the original disk1 and disk2 data drives (3TB drives) have data that I do not want to lose. The newer disks ( 1 and 2 TB drives) have only test data and movies that were duplicates so can be deleted.

Thank you so much. I have 2 data drives full of music and movies and do not want to lose it. I was having both servers going but would like to simplify my life (or complicate it further) by combining them into one.