mikela

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  1. Success! Thank you for this wonderful plugin. Really great for those of us that need to shutdown our servers at night. 👍
  2. So just stop the array and put it in position 10 and unraid will recognize the preclear signature and format it ?
  3. I started to do that but read the following warning: "If this disk was pre-cleared, you will remove the pre-clear signature. If you add the disk to the array and the pre-clear signature is removed, Unraid will go through the lengthy process of clearing the disk again."
  4. I did a preclear over the course of several days shutting down at night. It successfully completed. However, the "Mount" button was greyed out so I deleted the preclear log per the instructions and still am not able to mount. Do I need to stop the array and press the red x to clear the disk?
  5. Switching to a USB 2.0 port on the back of my rack mounted server seems to have worked. I swapped out my old Cruzer USB 2.0 drive with a Samsung BAR Plus USB 3.0 drive based on this review by gridrunner (aka SpaceInvader One). Before trying the 2.0 port, I had been using this USB board adapter since my original build. I have been using the Samsung 3.0 drive since April without any problems. Only recently did I start having problems. I reseated the adapter and continued to use the 3.0 drive. That worked for awhile before reverting to previous behavior (failing to load the OS). Taking the advice of @JorgeB and moving the Samsung drive to a 2.0 port seems to have cured the issue at least so far.
  6. I believe you are right. Definitely operator error on my part. Is there any way to recover? Should I just let it rebuild?
  7. I was able to get my new 8TB drive precleared over the course of several days while stopping in the evenings and then resuming. However, the "Mount" button was greyed out so I stopped the array and assigned the drive to the array. I selected for the drive to be formatted but it seems that unraid wants to rebuild so I stopped everything for the moment and ran a diagnostic. Thoughts? tower-diagnostics-20220606-1054.zip
  8. I am still getting an intermittent issue where sometimes my server will boot up without any issues or will attempt to boot up and I wind up with this screen: I have a dual mount USB adapter on the mother board. If I unseat the adapter and reseat it, it seems to boot successfully and I temporarily get the following screen: The blue section in the bios screen is hard to read but says "My Favorite" and it looks like it is giving me the option to delete it. Is that something I should do? Even though I reseat the USB adapter, it does not always boot properly...color me perplexed.
  9. I prefer to not operate my server over night. I started a manual parity check off of the Main tab and got to about 8.5%. Then I shutdown. Later I restarted and started parity check which proceeded to start from 0. Is this expected behavior or am I doing something wrong? I was assuming that I would be able to resume. I am on the latest version of Unraid and am using the default settings with the exception of "Use increments for manual parity check:" which is set to Y. I have "Scheduled parity check:" set to disabled.
  10. I'm guessing the diagnostics did not reveal any anomalous information. Everything started normally today. Fingers crossed.
  11. I have 8TB drives which take quite awhile to preclear. I need to be able to shutdown my server nightly. Is my understanding correct that I can shut down the server while Preclear is running and that upon start up it will resume?
  12. OK that worked. I was able to log in that way. My laptop was able to get the GUI. So it seemed like everything was working again. So I shutdown and tried with the just the laptop and no go. I then tried the direct connection route again and now it was dumping me into the bios menu where it was indicating 404 Error. I tried reseating the thumb drive and now it works again. There is something intermittent going on apparently. In any case, it's running right now so I ran a diagnostic. tower-diagnostics-20220530-1707.zip
  13. Here is my hardware. I can't seem to reach my unraid login screen via my laptop at all and therefore can't post diagnostics. I'm wondering if hooking up my screen and keyboard directly to the server should be my next move?
  14. Unlike many folks, I turn off my server every day. I only use it for my home theater and don't want it running 24/7. Recently I tried to reach the Login screen from my PC like I always do and received the message "This site can't be reached". I also do not have access to any files. Not sure where to go from here. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
  15. I always dismiss the nag screen. It always updates the next time I start my server. Unlike many, I shut down my server daily.