husky55

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  1. Can the Popbox V8 be the problem? With 5.0Beta14, I had no problem with the V8.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 !!!
  7. 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."
  8. 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?
  9. Click on the Modify at the right hand side of your post and changed your title to SOLVED.
  10. 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
  11. Seagate 3TB Goflex Desk Usb 3.0 $119.99 after $20 IR - Starting July 22nd thru August 5th at Costco BM.
  12. 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.
  13. Thank you. That is exactly what I will do.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. The Seagates have the best 3 TB prices right now. So I am between a rock and a hard place. Quality vs price, Seagate vs WD.
  17. make this transition to a new server. I have an Unraid 5.14b server with 1 parity and 2 data drives. Everything is working perfectly as far as I know. Trouble is, my HP Proliant ML110 G6 is limited in expansion so I have built a new server with expansion in mind (using Raj recommendations mostly). My question is can I just move the drives over to the new server with the same exact config, i.e. parity, disk1, disk2. When I built the new server, new parity, new disk1 and 2 were installed and tested and everything is working. Note that I have 2 sets of parity, disk1 and disk2 drives. My intent is to move the original drives into the new server and use the new drives as additional data drives since they were all precleared and tested. I do not want to lose the data on disk1 and disk2 in my original HP server. So can I just stop the array in the new server, power down and installed the original drives. Boot up and setup the new configuration with assigning the proper drives to their id i.e. parity, disk1, disk2, 4 and 5 will be the new drives. Is there something else I should do before I mess up.
  18. Costco Milford, CT has the Seagate USB3 GoDesk for $129.99 + taxes. I bought and took the drive out of the enclosure, it's the ST300DM001 3TB. It seems to run well for me so far. There was no marking about rpm on the drive, but Anandtech review of the drive said it was a 7200rpm unit. The date of manufacture is 04/2012 firmware CC9E. Power down is disabled.
  19. I am obviously confused as I have the latest preclear version already. However I just found out that even before any preclear activity is taken place, there is a SMART drive problem: "Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options." And then there is a bunch of errors: Jun 19 09:12:59 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 195694336 Jun 19 09:12:59 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde, logical block 195694143 Jun 19 09:12:59 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 195694336 Jun 19 09:12:59 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde, logical block 195694143 Jun 19 09:12:59 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 195694336 Jun 19 09:12:59 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde, logical block 195694143 I will look for the newer UNMENU and will connect the Seagate drive to the SATA connection and see what happens.
  20. I am using Unraid version beta 5.14 and preclear_disk.sh version 1.13. I just bought a Seagate USB3 3TB. After removing the drive from its enclosure, I proceeded to preclear it. What should be a couple minutes work has now turned into couple days of pulling my hair. I used the command ./preclear_disk.sh -A /dev /sde sde being the new Seagate drive in a USB2 dock. So I got an error, something about a SMART query failed. So I investigated and found that there were 3 partitions on the drive. Then I remember that 3TB drive needed to be formatted as GPT partition. Now I have a single partition of 3 TB. So I thought problem solved. But no, preclear_disk.sh -l now showed the Seagate as sdf instead of sde as before. So I assumed that it was just the change in the GPT partition which caused that. But again preclear failed. Then I found out that the version I used is 1.13 but apparently there is a newer 1.6 version for beta 5.8 or later. Well I spent hours looking for 1.6 but apparently it was removed because I could not find it. Joe L did say to use 1.6 for later betas. I check the Seagate drive with Seatools tests. It passed all the tests. Any idea what I can do? I am afraid to just add the drive to the array and let Unraid do what it must do because I have lots of files that I would not want to lose. This is to replace a smaller drive which has my files on it. here are some errors from my syslog: un 19 07:50:34 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde, logical block 195694143 (Errors) Jun 19 07:50:34 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sdf, logical block 195694336 (Errors) Jun 19 07:50:34 Tower kernel: Buffer I/O error on device sde, logical block 195694143 (Errors) Jun 19 07:50:35 Tower unmenu[1089]: Precleared disk sde not found in drivedb[] (Drive related) Jun 19 07:50:35 Tower unmenu[1089]: Precleared disk sdf not found in drivedb[] (Drive related)
  21. Hi Raj, I must be in the woods for too long. But how in the world are those prices, good deals? I am looking for a 3 TB at about $120.
  22. You have network problem. So to fix it, shutdown unraid, use Windows Explorer, open up flash, config, network.cfg and edit it with notepad, USE_DHCP=yes. If you saved the config folder as backup then just use it to overwrite the config folder. Reboot unraid. You should be good to go.
  23. I do not run sabnzbd on unraid (yet, would want to try one day), but the file permissions only got messed up when an attached usb drive was mounted externally to the server and MC was used. Everything was wireless. Files transferred/saved with Win Explorer have no problem (wired). I did fix my particular problem of file permissions.
  24. Greg, when I ran 4.7, I did not have any problem with either file permission or ownership. But if you still have problems with 4.7 then do a search, there were some pointers around. You also need to be more specific in your problem definition so we can help, i.e. how were the file transferred? saved? edit? r w x ?
  25. @marcone, thank you for bring this problem up to Tom. This is not a major problem since there are workarounds. The permissions do indeed get messed up in certain transfer modes (not all) but they can be fixed. It just bothers me that very few people, supposedly, knowledgeable experts, have dismissed this problem as the fault of users who should have known better.