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I have not tried this, but one way would be to install VirtualBox on the mac and then create a virtual machine with a Linux that handles XFS. You have to install the VM VirtualBox Extension Pack to get USB 3 speeds which can be found in the downloads section of https://www.virtualbox.org. You could then put the drive in a USB enclosure and you should be able to read the drive then. Sorry I can't give you more detailed info, because I have not done this yet myself.

Excellent, I knew it was probably a simple patch to get this going. Thanks for testing. Sometime when I get time I will upgrade to 6.4.1 and give it a try.

Hi John_M, Well, that depends. If the fellow on reddit has it working with the older tmux, then it shouldn't be a problem. I would have probably tried it with the newer tmux, but the reddit user probably didn't look that far into it.

I did a quick look into this plugin. The main reason why it isn't working is because of this: https://github.com/gfjardim/unRAID-plugins/blob/900452f0a7c4e2541839a83bbb347eccda0de2f0/plugins/preclear.disk.plg#L394-L406 case $gcc_version in '7.2.0') download_install ncurses-6.0-x86_64-3.txz c04358fd7d7cb0b5ca67f215871f3692 download_install libevent-2.1.8-x86_64-1.txz 9ba9d61dcd90d45719d27b9e7a111913 download_install tmux-2.5-x86_64-1.txz a48783401331620b7c7e5d7af58f53db download_install utempter-1.1.6-x86_64-2.txz aed1f39d4a5acddb225b542145e0eeaf ;; '5.3.0'|'5.4.0'|'7.1.0') download_install libevent-2.0.22-x86_64-1.txz 7a755ece3e378f244a3c327369e7f2ac download_install tmux-2.2-x86_64-2.txz a268019858c88d5f2f702d9fc182a37c download_install ncurses-5.9-x86_64-4.txz c2d2b01f021dc2f4752c4fff02f65fd5 download_install utempter-1.1.6-x86_64-2.txz aed1f39d4a5acddb225b542145e0eeaf ;; From my research, this code needs to be updated to include 7.3.0 and it appears that the file that needs to be added to the list of packages located here: https://github.com/gfjardim/unRAID-plugins/tree/master/source/packages is tmux-2.6-x86_64-1.txz Forgot to mention tmux-2.6-x86_64-1.txz can be downloaded from here --> http://slackware.cs.utah.edu/pub/slackware/slackware64-current/slackware64/ap/ I currently too busy with current work commitments to try this out and I am currently running 6.4.0 to test this out, but if somebody likes to hack things, this is what I would try. You would pretty much need to download the tmux-2.6-x86_64-1.txz and unzip it into the correct directory to try this.

Thanks dlandon for that tip. I totally forgot about the Rescan Disks icon. Thanks for pointing that out.

Sorry wgstarks, I should have been more clear. What my issue is I guess is that the FS column in the Unassigned Devices did not show the drive as precleared until I stopped the VM's that I was running. Personally I think that after you preclear a drive, it should update the information in the Unassigned Devices section when it is completed. Currently on my install that is not occurring. I guess I expected a different behaviour. Thanks for responding.

Here is a followup of my testing to try to get to the bottom of this. So I re-ran the Preclear (1 Cycle). After the preclear, the unassigned shows this: Clearly it shows the it's completed and the e-mail notification indicate that as well. So I pressed the Red X and I was presented with the following screen: As you can see, the drive does not show the status as precleared. It does not change even if you refresh the screen. So I shutdown two VM's that I was running and then went back to the Main tab and now the screen shows this: All I can say, is that I really am baffled by this. I would be happy to hear from anyone else that has noticed this behaviour.

I believe that when I clicked the red X a day or so ago, it never showed that the drive was precleared and all attributes on that line had a dash -. But at that time I don't remember whether or not I stopped the array or not. I can run the preclear again, but it will take a while.

I'm currently running the stable release 6.4.0 and I have only one problem with the Preclear plugin. After I preclear the drive in the unassigned devices section, It says that the preclear completed successfully, but I have the option to cancel currently running preclear as can be seen in the attached screenshot. I cannot get that message to disappear unless I stop the unRAID server and reboot the server, which then gives me this attached screenshot. Is this normal behaviour with this plugin?

+1 I’m for this hopefully future feature.