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4.7 even if I'm not mistaken. not sure what happened. it had to take the power off for a while could have been as much a dead motherboard battery causing a firmware reset, but I'm just guessing at this point. the system has only VGA out. I "borrowed" my monitor that had VGA to a friend. but is their fams only monitor so it would break my heart to go and collect it. I bought a device on which i should be ably to mount drives via external USB. I just need to find some free software that allows me to mount them min win 10 and being able to copy them, all i care for is the music and maybe some education courses. most of it was movies and TV series. and I stopped watching TV and movies ages ago i could not care less for that content. I have some screenshots with my drive setup so i think i should be able to recognize serienumbers if those match externally. I'm feeling is probably something simple like a reset bios or maybe a failed USB drive.. then again the system is like 12 years old. I think for now i just try to retrieve the files i care about. maybe in time i will have the opportunity to connect to the system.

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downloaded the ipmi software and it found the motherboard. so the cable is working. unfortunately i don't remember the login and pas for ipmi. and cant find it in my notes either . i do remember however that when i tried to login in the past it would no longer accept the credentials so even if i had it it would most likely no longer work. I also don't have a VGA monitor so currently have no way of getting in. I'm not familiar enough with linux to understand what needs to happen for the server to show up in the DHCP server. could it be the flash drive got corrupted or failed? or should it have shown up before that? in the worst case i just have to find tool to mount my drives externally on my pc and copy the files i want to recover.

so the first question is why does it not show up? could it be corrupted unraid software or must it be it hardware related? i have no vga screen to connect and ipmi got corrupted (or hacked?) tho I assume if it does not show up in the DHCP server it is impossible to connect anyway or am i mistaken about that? in the worst case scenario i need to figure out how to move some of the files from the discs (mainly Music, Dont care to much about series and movies)

Hi it has been ages since i build the server and it has been nearly always on. i had to shut it down because someone in the house needed to work on electricity. i turned of the server some plugin (i don't remember the name) from that would do a clean shutdown after a short press on the power button. Thew server went through its shut down sequence seeing from the lights dancing around. but now when i start it up it seems to remain offline. i can't see it in the dhcp server. i tried restarting the router. server, pc but it remains no show. the server is headless and is was so long ago i build it I basically forgot most things related too it. could anyone be kind enough to point me in the right direction trying to figure out what is wrong and how to fix it? Regards, E..

disks have finally stopped preclearing (The disks are the new HTGS 4tb 7200rpm NAS drives) here is an example from a report. == invoked as: ./preclear_disk.sh -r 65536 -w 65536 -b2000 -c 3 /dev/sdf == HGSTHDN724040ALE640 PK1334PBH0H4DS == Disk /dev/sdf has been successfully precleared == with a starting sector of 1 == Ran 3 cycles == == Using :Read block size = 65536 Bytes == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 17:19:24 (64 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 8:53:51 (124 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 28:02:02 (39 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 36:57:06 == == Total Elapsed Time 128:11:36 == == Disk Start Temperature: 33C == == Current Disk Temperature: 38C, strangely enough whenever i looked in the putty window reported read speeds were much higher more like 150-80 all the disks seem fine by the way. only i keep wondering what caused the slow read speeds. i do have to add i followed the wiki manual and first tried creating a new screen session withing the same putty window. but when i tried this for the 3rd drive it became unresponsive and i could see that the 2 drives that had already started prereading had stopped. so i started 3 separate putty windows and gave the commands again. wonder if this somehow could affect the read speeds. but if so why not the write speed? i cant install the disk yet need to upgrade to to unraid 5 first and clear the cache folder that still have a lot of files on it in a hidden folder. anyone has ideas what could be going on or how to find out more? is there a way without making the preclear invalid to test the read speeds? and is it normal that the speeds reported during the preclear and in the reports are so different (64 in log while during preread on screen it showed 150-80) ? i'm very curious to find out what is going on. thanks precear_reports.zip

Controller throughput and bus throughput are certainly important factors. Perhaps the biggest factor is the rotational speed of the drive. If you check the User Benchmarks, Preclear Times wiki section, you can see that rough speeds for 7200rpm drives is 10 hours (+/- 2 hours) per terabyte, and that rough speeds for 5900rpm drives is 13 hours (+/- 1 hour) per terabyte. thats why 17 hours seem a bit long for just pre-read. these are 7200 drives. i saw in old pre-clear logs that pre-reading and writing zeroes took roughly the same time on a wd green. (both aprox 6:30h) for what its worth writing zeroes is going on for a bit over 3 hours and it is at 39%. it will surely slow down a bit but i doubt it will take 17 hours like the pre-read did it will be a while before i can see the logs for these drives. wonder what i will see there

2 of them are connected to an AOC-SASLP-MV8 the other is connected to the mother board. The drive that was connected to the MB was a little faster and finished the pre-read when the others 2 were at 98%. it took about 17 hours for it to finish pre-reading. the number of 40 hours for 4tB would imply the following numbers: 10h pre-read 10h writing zeroes and 20h post read.

its step zero pre-reading the thing is i'm either miscalculating or the speeds don't match the time even if the speed would be constant 80MB/s it would do 288000 MB in an hour and should be finished within 14 hours i'm just curious why it is the speeds have been higher yet it is still not finished the prereading at these speeds a single cycle will be 17h + 17h +34 h = 68 Hours

i started preclearing 3 hgst 4tb nas drives. it seems to take long time. How long would be normal? it started prereading around 140-150 MB/s and is currently 85 to 90 MB/s progress is currently 94-96% and elapsed time is 16:15 - to 16:05 . i used: preclear_disk.sh -r 65536 -w 65536 -b 2000 -c 3 /dev/sdX if the average speed would be 90MB/s it should have finished aleady right?

thanks that should help i'll dive into the settings to see what going on disk2 also spins up and down like to rest for some reason it didn't in the little sample log i posted not sure why. the cache disks contains only a .torrent folder i'll try to leave the mover info blank to see if that disables the mover. i think i read unraid 5 has cache only shares maybe that helps since this is all oftopic now and 5.0 is around the corner i'll just wait for that. again thanks for pointing me in the right direction

Hi, i'm trying to figure out why my drives always spin up around 04:41 does cache directories do extra scheduled scans? if not I have to look elsewhere Jan 28 04:41:00 Whaaat kernel: mdcmd (2021): spindown 0 (Routine) Jan 28 04:41:01 Whaaat kernel: mdcmd (2022): spindown 1 (Routine) Jan 28 04:41:01 Whaaat kernel: mdcmd (2023): spindown 3 (Routine) Jan 28 04:41:03 Whaaat kernel: mdcmd (2024): spindown 4 (Routine) Jan 28 04:41:04 Whaaat kernel: mdcmd (2025): spindown 5 (Routine) Jan 28 04:41:04 Whaaat kernel: mdcmd (2026): spindown 6 (Routine) Jan 28 04:41:05 Whaaat kernel: mdcmd (2027): spindown 7 (Routine) thanks for your time

thanks for clarifying that.

reusing an older F3 disk if I'm not mistaken its OK, no? preclear_rpt_sdd_2011-02-23 ========================================================================1.6 == invoked as: ./preclear_disk.sh /dev/sdd == SAMSUNG HD203WI S1UYJ1RZ508344== Disk /dev/sdd has been successfully precleared == with a starting sector of 64 == Ran 1 cycle == == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 8:12:44 (67 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 7:57:10 (69 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 16:20:37 (33 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 32:31:57 == == Total Elapsed Time 32:31:57 == == Disk Start Temperature: 21C == == Current Disk Temperature: 27C, == ============================================================================ ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sdd /tmp/smart_finish_sdd ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE G-Sense_Error_Rate = 1 1 0 near_thresh 2110871 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. ============================================================================ preclear_finish_sdd_2011-02-23 Disk: /dev/sdd smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net === START OF INFORMATION SECTION === Device Model: SAMSUNG HD203WI Serial Number: S1UYJ1RZ508344 Firmware Version: 1AN10003 User Capacity: 2,000,398,934,016 bytes Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall] ATA Version is: 8 ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 6 Local Time is: Wed Feb 23 03:29:58 2011 CET SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled === START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED General SMART Values: Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity was never started. Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled. Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed without error or no self-test has ever been run. Total time to complete Offline data collection: (28200) seconds. Offline data collection capabilities: (0x5b) SMART execute Offline immediate. Auto Offline data collection on/off support. Suspend Offline collection upon new command. Offline surface scan supported. Self-test supported. No Conveyance Self-test supported. Selective Self-test supported. SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering power-saving mode. Supports SMART auto save timer. Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported. General Purpose Logging supported. Short self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes. Extended self-test routine recommended polling time: ( 255) minutes. SCT capabilities: (0x003f) SCT Status supported. SCT Feature Control supported. SCT Data Table supported. SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16 Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 100 051 Pre-fail Always - 252 2 Throughput_Performance 0x0026 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0023 060 058 025 Pre-fail Always - 12353 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 1629 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 252 252 010 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0 8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0024 252 252 015 Old_age Offline - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 2168 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 051 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 177 191 G-Sense_Error_Rate 0x0022 001 001 000 Old_age Always - 2110871 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0022 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0002 064 045 000 Old_age Always - 27 (Lifetime Min/Max 12/55) 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x003a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 252 252 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0036 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x002a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 17355 223 Load_Retry_Count 0x0032 252 252 000 Old_age Always - 0 225 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 099 099 000 Old_age Always - 11920 SMART Error Log Version: 1 No Errors Logged SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1 No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t] Note: selective self-test log revision number (0) not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 0 Note: revision number not 1 implies that no selective self-test has ever been run SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS 1 0 0 Completed [00% left] (0-65535) 2 0 0 Not_testing 3 0 0 Not_testing 4 0 0 Not_testing 5 0 0 Not_testing Selective self-test flags (0x0): After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk. If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay. thanks in advance

that sounds handy, would there be any external controllers that can read out data from the mobo? my current mobo only has fixed values (30% 50% 70% 100%)