ChrisDaMan

Hello All, I'd like to thank all of you that have helped me in troubleshooting my problem.(dgaschk & Joe L.) One thing is for sure. I won’t be shutting down the system next time knowing now what I have learned on how to obtain a system log through telnet_putty. I've take advise from Tom and changed to software RC8 and reseated all connections and cards. I even used compressed in the card slots just for good measure and cleaning. After upgrading to RC8 I was able to identify a drive problem with my #9 drive. It red balled. I'm not sure why I couldn't see this before but at least I did. I followed instructions on using SMART on that drive. Everything passed so it could have been a connection on power or sata. Just glad it was okay but will be keeping a good eye on all the drives from now on. I used instructions found here written by Joe L. on bringing the drive back into the Unraid system and did a rebuild with success as all of my drives are up with all my files intact and good parity. I just knew those files where there. This system couldn't have let me down that bad. But I've also learned that if I'm going to keep files of real value that I need a second or third backup just in case. (I'm not gonna say it) I have faith in this Unraid setup more so then my old (2) SanD 5 disk raid5 setup. And I'm saving energy in the process. I'm glad to have found it and the people here that help those of use that don't understand but want to learn about this system. I definitely have some more reading to do and know where I can come next time I run into... Thank you again. Chris Oh and also to note 1 of my Raid cards was bad back at the beginning of all this which I'm glad I had ordered a replacement. Gonna try an RMA on it as it has a 3 year Warranty.

Okay Joe L. I did just that and I'm also posting the latest system log here. Man I hope I can get this fixed. R2D2_System_Log_01_01_2013.txt

Hi All, I've still running this parity check. Do you think it's still running okay? Just very slow. As you can see it's been a couple days so far. About 67hours give or take. I don't understand what these numbers mean except that this mdResyncDt= is counting up. (Slow as all get out) The others stay the same. This is a 2tb parity system with 18 drives. Normally it's done within 24 hours. Any idea's as whats going on? Do I need another system log post? Guess I'll just wait it out as well. root@R2D2:~# /root/mdcmd status | strings | grep sync mdResync=1953514552 mdResyncCorr=1 mdResyncPos=88334552 mdResyncDt=162210 mdResyncDb=1550580 root@R2D2:~# /root/mdcmd status | strings | grep sync mdResync=1953514552 mdResyncCorr=1 mdResyncPos=88334552 mdResyncDt=191744 mdResyncDb=1550580 root@R2D2:~# /root/mdcmd status | strings | grep sync mdResync=1953514552 mdResyncCorr=1 mdResyncPos=88334552 mdResyncDt=236333 mdResyncDb=1550580 root@R2D2:~# /root/mdcmd status | strings | grep sync mdResync=1953514552 mdResyncCorr=1 mdResyncPos=88334552 mdResyncDt=243813 mdResyncDb=1550580 root@R2D2:~#

Thanks Joe L. Yes I understand that I will only see the flash drive. And it's good to hear it's looking normal. I was just concerned about loosing contact via IE and see whats happening during parity check.

Okay I've replaced the one raid card believed to be bad as well as both it's 4ch sata cables. The system boots to the unraid menu. Tried to start raid in maintenance mode. Parity check started and was cruzin' along for say 25 min. During which I check a couple times the speed rate and that everything was fine to leave it alone. The process was going to be about 6 hours which was alot faster then in the past. Came back to see if everything was fine at about that 25min mark and lost network. IE just spins looking for it. (Flash is still accessible thus the syslog.) Now in my past experiences I remembered seeing this happen but it may have been during pre-clear that that happened. I have included a full system log this time and the UNraid computer is still on and running. Any ideas as what to do now except wait? Any help would be great as I've tried several searches to find out if the unraid systems is not accessible during parity checks of any kind. With none to be found yet. Please help. Thank you syslog_R2D2_12_29_2012.txt

Okay I'm hoping this will give the info needed. I went to 500 lines and that seem to be all available at this time. Unless it's available as a backup feature saved on the original USB drive. Please take a look. Based on what I'm reading in this is the errors mentioned in the last couple pages of the drive errors. I ordered another raid card to replace this one if it's in fact bad. If not I can use it in my other raid box which unfortunately doesn't have this card to try out or I would. Also ordering extra cables for the card in case that’s the main problem and not the card. At least I'll have parts for future issues if they arise. R2D2_Syslog_Telnet_500_lines_Dec_21_18drives.txt

Hello Dgaschk and All, I'm posting a syslog I got through telnet the last 100 lines. It looks like there is sas errors. on ports working drive 15 on up. I'm wondering if that card/cable is bad. 19 and 20 don't have drives yet error as well which might be normal. What the weird part is the GUI doesn't even want me to make a new unraid setup which again feels like something wrong with the software setup on the USB somewhere on it. just an update on the progress. Thank for reading and helping where you can. R2D2_telnet_after_pressing_start_array.txt

Hello dgaschk And thank you for your response. To tell you I'm asking for help as you can see. I'm making progress even just getting the GUI back up and running. That in it self is a success. I've now gone over each drive and made sure that each drive is in order. They are. It seems when I click the start button to start the array the drives don't want to start, yet respond by pressing identify before pressing start. The unraid server seemes to just lock and become unresponsive after pressing start. I can still access it with telnet putty though. Now to tell you all that I've done is in no worse then a power outage could do to the system and the APC backup running out of power. Thats a bad shutdown. What if it's set to come on after power out in the bios? Then the power goes out again? This Unraid system has to be more stable then this. To say there is no way to determine the problem at this point is giving up on something before giving it all you can on something. Why post the system log if it doesn't help find the problem? Now I really do appreciate you looking into the problem for me but this system with all it's data can't be a full loss as it sits. There has to be a way. I'll just keep reading were I can and find some way to make this system come back up.

Okay it looks like the woods are getting thicker. I clicked Identify to check all the disks. Each drive read fine. All drives are green dot's so it looks good there. I tried to start the array but it just sat there. The GUI screen went white fade like it was going to the next screen where you see all drives mounted and running parity. But it's not going. I Properly Shut Down. I rebooted and I'm attaching a system log this this message. All help is needed and welcome. Thank you in advance. System_Log_Dec_21_16.txt

Okay after pluging the USB Flash into another computer I'm able to see thg e UNraid server in the GUI of course looking for all 18 drives. Okay now I went in to the setting screen and told it to not auto turn on. Saved that and went to shut down check box and the shutdown. Computer turned off. I then took the USB over to the server force the power off.(TAKE NOTE THE ARRAY was NOT running) Plugged in the USB and turned on the server. Everything was nice and fast on the boot up which I had noticed after swaping card slots with the 8 Ch card. The system is now accessible in the GUI. I'm gonna start the raid and let it run parity. It should be done by this time tomorrow. lol. I just really wish I could figure out what went wrong. Then again I'm not out of the woods yet. Parity has to pass for sure. I'll report back... Thanks again folks

So thinking out loud. If I take the usb running my unraid server and put it into another computer and started it up shouldn't it default to the GUI screen and not run? Giving me the oppertunity to see if it's maybe something wrong on the USB that needs correcting if it does'nt get there to the GUI?

Thank you for that information. I have logged in using putty. Is there any way to get what I see copied from there or save to the USB so that I may post the System log. I know that’s important. Okay I got it. The second file below is everything else mentioned above plus syslog. Thank you for your help and time in this matter. Chris R2D2_syslog.txt R2D2_login.pdf

It was when it went down. I'm talking about the GUI I've had sharing turned on there for many months. It's like the drive and the shared folders just fell off. As you can see the only thing I can now see is the flash folder. Also the same with my XBMC machines. I just wish there was a way to tell what it's doing if the telnet screen just says login:

This is what I see on my Windows7 Machines.

I dug a little more to find out that it wont accept a connection. Could it be that unraid is doing somthing in the back ground and I need to wait it out? There is no noise or hard drive light indicating it's doing anything. I've force turned it off a couple times upgrading the software and all still give me the flash folder on windows 7 machines. all drives are powered on for sure pulling full watts. So I know that much monitoring it. Is there any way to also go into the USB drive and change the auto start unraid to off and atleast be able to see the drives and whats going on? Do I maybe need to rebuild my USB fresh and apply pro license and when starting unraid it asks me to reconfigure the order of the drives? Thank you again, Chris

When the UNraid powers up it was hanging at the screen after checking both 8 channel raid cards. 1 card would sometimes give me a problem error and need to power down and reseat the card/cables. That seemed to fix the problem. Over the last week when I would start the UNraid It would hang on the bios/press space bar to continue. If I left it there for say 5 min it would continue on very slowly. Then up pops the blue screen as normal and with UNraid or check memory. The system would boot and get to the final Login: I can see the UNraid computer on each computer of the network (Windows7) I can click on the icon under network computers and access it only to see the flash drive. all other drives are missing. I am unable to access the UNraid box by IE GUI using its name or the 192.168.1...blah blah. Also I've experienced slow raid card check times. For giggles I switched both 8 channel cards leaving the cables connected to opposite slots. I rechecked all SATA and power connections. Powered up the UNraid and the cards checked much faster and UNraid started much faster getting me to the Login: But each computer still only lets me see the flash drive. Could the UNraid be rebuilding parity and not allow me access? It doesn't feel like I'm up the creek and lost it all as I've had trouble in the past with both UNraid servers not being accessible in the GUI or Windows and eventually they come on line. So folks any ideas as to what the problem might be? running Unraid Rev5 beta12a Tried moving to unRAID Server 5.0-rc5 AiO Still get the same thing. Thank you for your time, Chris

I'm not sure what really happened but parity has finish successfully so I can't argue with that. I guess the worst part was all the drives running all those hours draining on the power bill doing nothing but spinning. lol 250watts not so bad. Thank you for the support. Chris

Okay thank you. I did look into doing that. I tried to access it but couldn't get logged in. I then said well turn the darn thing off and reboot. Which I did. Everything came up fine and it started doing a parity check. I'm hoping it will finish it this time. All drives have 0 errors so fingers crossed. I'll report back if solved. Also including log file here. I saved it as a text file once I got it started up again. Thank you for your support, Chris Log_Oct25_2012.txt

Hello All, I lost power for a moment yesterday early morning. Both unraid servers had to rebuild parity. Okay I get that. While building I could access them both. Well really only one of them. Okay so one rebuilt it's self and the other Bigger system I no longer can log into in a browser. I can see it in my computer network I can also see it's command screen when hooked into a monitor. It's say's Tower name Login: I was think that the system may now be rebuilding itself. Then again maybe not.I hear no drives running like they are writing or reading stuff and the hard drive light doesn't blink. Now once in awhile I have come back to check on my windows pc to see if it came up on the network. Sometimes it's there. Sometimes I can access it. Sometimes I can even play a movie or tv show. Then I'll try it from say another drive and it's wont access it at the file level. The folder level maybe but not the file level. Could i have errors I'm not seeing? Should I shut the Unraid server off with the power button and start over or is there a command I missed in the wiki manual to type in the login screen to turn the system off safely as not to loose anymore data if I already have? Using Unraid Pro 5.0 beta-12a I know a my parity takes awhile now for the amount of drives being 18+parity 2TB but dang I'm at 36hours now. My other system using the same MB and processor and memory with 8+parity 3TB was done in less then 10hours parity only check after the power went off. Any help would be great. Thank you, Chris Also would there be anything on the USB drive log wise that I should post here to help find my problem?

Okay I'm guessing no on has done this before. So I guess I'll shoot from the hip and just do it and see what happens.

Hello All, I'm looking to save some more power even though not much but worth the move to me. I have a Sans Digital 5bay raid box which has an external card and wire to connect it. It's been a nice setup but I want to move the drives to the inside and cut the use of that box. I'm wanting to add another SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8-Port SAS/SATA Card to connect to these drives that I want to take out of the Sans raid box. Now the question being do I take a look at the Unraid interface and see what drives are in what order (Take a picture of the drives list web interface). Then after installing the new card do I need to put them back in order(On the Drives list web interface) or will the Unraid software do it for me? Thanks, Chris Running Unraid 4.7 on that setup

ECS A885GM-A2 (V1.1) AM3 AMD 880G SATA 6Gb/s ATX AMD Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135272 Nice MB and with the PCI-e slots you could get up to 20+ drives connected. Then use a nice efficient processor with this and your off to a good start for a cheap Unraid box with plenty of expansion. Have fun...

Missed this post and wanted to answer you on this. It's about 29Mb Sec. for the parity check. Once it's through that box of 5 it speeds up to the 80's or higher. Did you ever get your San digital 8bay up and running with unraid?

OK it may be the cable that's causing the problem. Then again it may be the card plug in slots. Gonna look at another cable maybe round type as another forum member mentioned worked best for them and helped with dropped transfer speeds. I'll check back and report my finding but for now it's working. Will be preclearing drives and testing. Chris

Hi Guys and thank you for the reply's. As for gaining access to the card I would guess that that would be best assessed by removing the UNRAID USB drive and watch for the screen to appear that may give me access to that card. When you say flash is that something you think is on the driver CD that came with it?. I want to the iStarUSA website and when you click the download tab its blank in that area. Any ideas? Thank again...