bill_in_socal

Excellent Joe. I didn't even think to look at the myMenu SMART page. Looks like my drive is OK. Was also unaware of the console scrolling hotkeys. Expecting 2 more 1TB WD drives today, so preclear is going to be busy. I really appreciate all your help. Thanks!

I ran my first preclear last night. I connected a console to my unRAID server. It appeared to run as expected steps 1 & 2 as I retired for the evening. This morning, the console displays what looks like a lot of double spaced SMART info. I can't see it all on the screen. And, I have a "ghost" entry "sdb1" in my unMenu drive listing which wasn't there before preclear completed. So, I don't know if preclear was successful or not. Is there a log of the preclear output someplace?

Thanks for that golden nugget Joe! I can imagine that someday preclear will be integrated into unMenu. But until then, "screen" looks like a great solution. I am going to give it a shot. Thanks for your time and I hope you got to do your new server build this weekend. Thanks again

Here's a really dumb question: If I have a headless unRAID box, I can use Putty to connect to my server and start the preclear script. But, do I have to leave the Putty session open for 10+ hours in order to view the status? Is there any way to start preclear, disconnect from my box, connect again and view the preclear status? I bought myself 2 WD Green drives that I am going to preclear. Thanks for any info. Edit: Never mind - Answer found in original post "You will either need to kick this preclear_disk.sh script off from the system console, or from a telnet session. You must leave the session open as it runs. (and it will typically run for hours)"