dlandon

I've added an indicator to UD whenever preclear is running. It will show the format button as 'Preclear' while the script is running, and turn off when the script is finished. You definitely don't want to try any disk operations in UD (like Format) when a disk is preclearing. This will be in the next release.

I just found out that UD is constantly reading unformatted disks looking for a preclear signature. I will disable that check. I can't believe this has been there forever and I never caught it.

No problem.

I have a fix for the file system not showing 'precleared' in UD. I also implemented the temperature display and reads and writes during a preclear. @gfjardim I see the problem with the blinking of the preclear status line in UD. UD does a refresh of the page every 3 seconds. You are updating the status periodically like when UD did not refresh itself. They are clashing. The best bet is to let UD do the page update and preclear just provides the information. Also take a look at the /usr/local/state/devs.ini file in 6.9 RC2. Unraid is providing disk information for Unassigned Devices. I use this for disk spin, reads, writes, and temperature information. I don't query the disk. UD keeps this file current when a hot plug event occurs.

Please mark this as solved.

Unraid does not spin up the drives. There is probably something else.

I do need to point out that the UD disks are now monitored by Unraid just like array disks, so a small amount of reads will occur. Unraid monitors disks for SMART issues and over temperature. You've not seen this before because UD hasn't shown reads and writes until now.

A small amount of reads is normal. Unraid monitors drive status and temperatures on RC2. Any drive over temperature or SMART issue is reported just like array drives.

The tracking of reads and writes on UD disks is the same logic as on the array disks. I also do not see any of this behavior. UD does not do any reading or writing of disks. It only mounts/unmounts them. How fast are the reads incrementing? Spin down the UD disk and see if it is spun back up while being unmounted. On your next post, include diagnostics.

It is not a bug with either Unraid 6.9 or UD. Something is reading from the disk. If you have preclear installed, remove it and see if the reads stop.

It's not a bug. The reads are legit. You've never noticed it before because UD didn't show reads and writes until 6.9 and UD now refreshes those periodically so you can see them change. I suspect that the preclear plugin is monitoring the disk. Remove the preclear plugin and see if the reads stop.

New release of UD: Biggest change is the move from polling to event driven UI updates. This cuts down on excessive polling and improves responsiveness. Several minor cosmetic changes and bug fixes.

The log on the UD page is for the script that would run if you have one setup. As you found out, the syslog is the go to place for UD logging. You'll need to put the disk back in a Windows computer and fix the issue with the disk. If it's a bootable disk, you'll need to turn off hibernation and fast boot.

Look at the log. The disk is probably being mounted read only. This can happen with some NTFS formatted disks. That only applies to XFS formatted disks.

Yes, fixed in the nest release.

If I remove the id from: $hdd_serial .= "{$preclear_link}<span id='preclear_{$disk['serial_short']}' style='display:block;'></span>"; It does not blink on and off, but it does not display either. Could preclear be changing the span id and clearing it? When the brush icon is showing, there is no blinking.

Not sure. I did a little troubleshooting and didn't come up with anything. What's odd, every other refresh, there appears to be no preclear info.

Preclear is not a part of UD, but UD picks up the preclear plugin script information and displays it in UD. Because of the recent changes to UD, @gfjardim will have to look at updating the preclear plugin and/or do a PR and change UD. Uninstalling and re-installing a plugin is not necessary if you have run the plugin update and don't see an update. Generally uninstalling and re-installing a plugin doesn't fix anything.

Just released a fix to the nervous table head refresh.

I'll have a fix today.

Major new release of UD: "Where are the switches?" The "Pass Through", "Read Only", "Automount", and "Share" switches have been moved to a new Edit Settings dialog. This is also where the script is modified. This saves some real estate on the UD page and keeps the page refresh smooth. A "Show Partitions" switch has been added to set showing all partitions by specific hard drive device and not generically as before. The option to show all partitions has been removed from the UD Settings. Read and Writes and all other status is updated every 3 seconds. You don't have to refresh the page with the browser to get an update. Mounts, unmounts, disk spin, and read and write status updates are much smoother. This is the same as the array pages. The values just update in place. You can see the current status of the device switches in a tool tip by hovering your mouse over the settings icon. Automount of remote shares and ISO files is off now by default. If you previously had a remote share that automounted and is not now, just edit the settings and turn on the Automount switch. I've been trying to achieve this for a long time, and I think I finally got there.

Not for me and the documentation for 10.6 refers to apps-external for external apps, not apps/external.

This des not appear to be correct.

That shouldn't be a problem.

You actually entered a '?' in the mount point? Is it a physical disk or a remote share mount? Can you show a screen shot of UD?