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well, this is looking promising already Preclear is passed, now doing post-read!

Thanks Johnnie, i did this and ran a new preclear, i'll keep you guys posted.

Hello everybody, I'm having a problem with a new drive i've been trying to install for a couple of days now. I'm not sure where to begin but here goes: - When i try to preclear using the plugin, it either runs for anywhere from 90min to 11 hours, but at the end the drive remains 'not pre-cleared'; - At times, the preclear process stalls and stops completely, stuck at 0% after several hours; - Testing the drive with the plugin gives the following report, please note 'failed tests' 1 and 3: - If i try and mount the drive, it remains red-crossed and lastly, the error count showed 14 errors (?) on the main dashboard; - There are more than 6500 UDMA CRC errors but i'm not sure this is relevant or not. I have a attached the latest SMART report, which passed. My local reseller asks for the SMART report before validating the return of the drive, so i'm afraid that, is the drive is faulty but with a negative SMART, they'll refuse after sales service Can you please help me troubleshooting this? Many thanks in advance for your support! Cheers, Patrick deimos-smart-20180115-1222.zip

Thanks i might give this a go. Today the progress made an unexpected leap as I am now at 82% so that means 31% in ten hours. I will let it crawl until tomorrow and see where does it takes me. Cheers!

Ok guys, the process is now at 51% after 68 hours. I'd gladly stop the post read but how can I redo this step only if my SMART report is positive?

We're a few hours later now, past the 44hrs mark and yes, the post-read crawled up to 26%. I guess i'll let it continue today and check things out when I'll be back from work. Edit: 10 hours later and the process is at 47%, current read speed 102MB/s The progression is so slow, I cannot recall the previous drives taking that long. Does this means something?

Hi everybody, Since yesterday i'm preclearing a WD Green 2TB. The process has been running for 32hrs now, but for the past three hours i've been monitoring the process of the last step (post-read) and since then it looks like the process is stuck at 17%. The webUI tells me the post-read progesses at 7MB/s only, but i've read elsewhere on the forum that this might very much be wrong. I've hooked up a screen to the server, and the speed reads 74MB/s. The timer advances regularly yet it the whole process stays at 17%. Is there something wrong or anything i should do? Thanks for your help!

Okay guys, so the new Asmedia card arrived by the mail today so i went ahead and installed it immediately. The bad: i can't seem to get this card to work either. Must be something i do or do not do, i'm really not sure. The good - and this was one of those facepalm moments - it never occurred to me that i could just swap drives around to see and check wether the SATA port is defective or the drive itself... Sure enough, went i swapped a "valid" drive in the "defective" SATA port, it was detected without any problems, and the supposedly "valid" drive was not detected when plugged into a valid port (never went further than the BIOS though). So, this means that every SATA ports on my mobo are working and that i'm good for a new hard drive. Now, if i could just get this PCIe to SATA card working, i could upgrade my parity drive with a small salvaged SATA. Any idea on that?

Ok, just as i thought. Well, i'll let this thread pending until i receive the Asmedia card. I'm counting a couple of weeks, just so the package has time to travel half the globe Cheers!

Hey Rob, A different PCI is not an option for me, there is only one PCIe on my mobo. I'll get the ASM1061; it's cheaper and it rules out the Marvell-bug altogether Can i upgrade to v6 with this ongoing issue?

Unless i'm not reading my BIOS correctly (although there is not much to look at), i can't see the drive connected, and no, it does not appear in the drop down list either. It remains as "not installed" and when the array is stopped, the drop list says "Not assigned" without any other option. I could give the lspci command a try but when i typed it i got this: Linux 3.9.6p-unRAID. root@DEIMOS:~# lspci -v -bash: lspci: command not found Did i do this correctly? Should i just upgrade to v6, then? [edit] i found an ASM1061 on eBay, can i get this one instead of ASM1062, which i have a hard time finding?

Hi guys, Yesterday i got the PCIe/SATA controller card i could find (this one), installed it this morning, plugged Disk2 in and it does not seems to be detected at all. Did i purchased a wrong type of controller? Do i have to install a particular driver and if so, how? Thanks for you help!

No problem Rob, you already helped me a great deal as it is The thing is, my IDE cache drive is currently plugged into a controller card (because my mobo only has 6 SATA ports, minus one now). If i deal with Disk 3 by plugging it into a SATA controller, i lose my cache completely since i don't have somewhere to plug it into anymore. Hence my questions about a new cache drive

Okay so i've managed to check the BIOS this evening. As Rob already confirmed, port SATA3 also shows as Not present there, as you can see from the screenshot i took from the BIOS itself. I guess this leave me with the PCIe/SATA controller option I found the info i needed regarding a new cache drive on the wiki so i'll be looking for a small and speedy drive with a decent cache memory. With this option in mind, what is the correct sequence of operations? I think i should proceed as follows: - unplug the cache drive and replace the IDE controller with the SATA controller; - disconnect disk1 from SATA3 and plug it in the 1st port of the controller card; - plug a new cache drive in the 2nd port of the controller card Is that it? Cheers

Thanks again, you're all being very helpful I'll have to check out the BIOS tonight so i'll get back on that question. In the event that there actually is one SATA port damaged on my motherboard and since my IDE cache is plugged to the IDE/PCIe controller, i think my next moves should be: - to purchase a SATA controller card (your Asmedia looks sweet but it will be hard to find in Belgium - i'll try and get a SATA III card anyway, should set be back around 40EUR...); - to purchase or recycle another SATA cache drive. What should i look for in a new cache drive? speed? cache size? Is this all correct? Cheers, Patrick

Okay so what i can tell you is that i only have one IDE drive and that is my 250Gb cache drive. All six other drives are SATAs, one being the 2To parity, then the five usable drives themselves. Disk 1 has always been a SATA drive my setup is still the same the one i posted on 2013, except now it has two extra SATA drives - as you can see on the pic, only the bottom one is an IDE.

Okay thanks. So my drive is definitely dead then. What i find confusing is that the webGui shows the drive as "not installed" and not as "disabled" Not sure about the procedure to find the dead drive though: should i unplug every drive and reconnect them one by one? Or should i stop the array, power down, remove one drive, power up and start the array, then see if the drive i removed is the defective one and if not, do it all over again?

I've made a SMART report in attachment for every drive from sda to sdf, thus seeing six drives, though i should see seven of them (one parity plus six). I can actually see the content of the missing Disk1 drive if i access the server via Windows Explorer and type only \\servername. The "not installed" drive remains so even if i stop the array. What can i do next? Archive.zip

Hi Rob, thanks. I thought about the syslog but we had a power outage very recently which forced the reboot. I did not think any further and rebooted manually afterwards, though. I've attached the syslog file. For the SMART report, i think i made a mistake in my command line somewhere since i get "/dev/sda: Unknown USB bridge [0x0951:0x1643 (0x100)]", and i'm not sure what i should do next. syslog.txt

Hi everyone, Yesterday evening, while cleaning up some files on my server, I’m absently logged on to see how much free space was still available… only to find that one of the hdd (disk1) “dark-red-balled” on me and now shows as "Not installed". Please consider that I very rarely log on the webgui so I don’t really know for how long this has been the case. Anyway, this setup has been running almost care and maintenance-free for a bit shy of three years, so I have a few questions in the general “what now?” direction, I hope you’ll be able to help me out ? 1) Let’s get the dumbest question right out of the way first: how do I physically identify the broken drive in my setup? This is silly but I did not take the care of labelling my drives so as to know which is which (not clever). 2) Are there things I can do (other than checking for an unplugged power/data cable, which I did) or checks I might run to detect further issues on this drive?* 3) I guess I can already look for a replacement drive. The defective drive was 2To, so I think I have two options: either I purchase a new 2To and make a swap and rebuild disk1, or I purchase a bigger drive and upgrade my parity while I’m at it? 4) If I decide to upgrade my parity, what is the correct sequence to do so in order to avoid data loss? I think this would also be the right time to upgrade from 5.0 to 6.1. Me not being your expert tinkerer, I’m looknig at a fair amount of head scratching. I've attached a screencap if this might help. Thanks in advance for your support! Patrick *[sOLVED] It so happens that i simply forgot to perform one of the easier troubleshooting tests that is to try and connect a valid drive to the "invalid" SATA port. Verdict: the SATA port was fine, it was the hdd that was faulty, a simple swap with a new hdd of the same capacity was all it took to fix the problem Thanks to all who took the time to help and contribute!

So far the server is holding up, the uptime is now 19h42 since last boot yesterday evening in comparison with these last few days this is a pretty darn good improvement, i'd say. Yesterday i wiped the whole usb flashdrive and started from scratch, so i guess the update i did from 4.7 to 5.0 wasn't perfect (i just overwrote the new files over the old ones). I'm running without simplefeatures now, so that might be another reason for stability. The only modification i did was to use the webGUI. Darts: do you still run BTSync?

yup, something along like these lines, exactly i'd rather try and find out if my existing gear is working correctly rather than guessing if i'd near more gear like a UPS i don't have.

I get that, but honestly, this is may be my first running unRaid, but i had a few computers and server running over the years and i've never ever suffered a rig shutting down completely every day because of tension shifts. The PSU alone is able to regulate the electricity efficiently against power variations anyway. I don't reject your theory at all, but i'm certain there are other options to explore first

Hey Frank, also worth mentionning in case other need troubleshooting for the same issue, but my server is not connected to a UPS cheers!

Yup, the wiped flash is the next thing on my list As for the time the server runs before it shuts down, it is kind of hard to say. My guess would be between 8 and 10 hours or so. I've turned it on this morning at around 10.30AM, it ran fine until i've checked again at around 9.00PM.