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That is weird. Sounds like the install didn't finish. I would uninstall / remove the preclear plugin - and reboot and then install. As for not being able to send the status, Try again after the fresh install and if you still have issues, I would confirm your email SMTP settings are correct and your system can send emails.

try uninstall plugin, and then install again - should pull the current version.

I used the plugin to preclear a drive only a week ago and had no issues at all. I'm just now trying to catch up on this forum and see some people are having issues with it not starting, or hanging. I have precleared 7 or 8 drives in the last month or os, as I replaced my unraid drives, didn't have any issues at all. I've used the last 2 or 3 version of preclear with no issues. Most of the time I use the console monitor and kick it off with the unraid gui. Other times I use my pc and Chrome. I can share the preclear report if that helps anyone. I'm on unraid 6.2.4 and plugin is current, 2016.12.24

Preclear is for sure faster. I have run Preclear on 5 new HGST 6TB drives. All of them have taken 47 - 51 hours for one full pass. With the new version and the same hard drive model, now I get 35 hours for one pass. Here is the info: Step 1 of 5 - Pre-read verification: [15:29:00 @ 107 MB/s] SUCCESS # # Step 2 of 5 - Zeroing the disk: [11:32:03 @ 144 MB/s] SUCCESS # # Step 3 of 5 - Writing unRAID's Preclear signature: SUCCESS # # Step 4 of 5 - Verifying unRAID's Preclear signature: SUCCESS # # Step 5 of 5 - Post-Read verification: [7:53:53 @ 138 MB/s] SUCCESS # # # # Cycle elapsed time: 34:55:00 | Total elapsed time: 34:55:00 #

Cool - thank you!

Hello guys, Just got a new HGST 6tb drive that I'm about to Preclear. I have version 2016.10.31. I'm current with Unraid too, 6.2.3. 1. I select Start Preclear, I only see one Script option now, says gfjardim - 0.8 beta. Is that the correct and latest and greatest Script? 2. I only have two options, Skip PreRead and Skip Post-Read. I leave both off (NO), assuming this is the best. I thought somebody posted that we should see a Check box that says Fast Option, or Fast Post?? Or with the recent script updates, we don't need that option anymore because the newly updated script is faster without any of that? 3. Not sure if this is related to my hardware or not, but I wanted to report a issue with the Main and Dashboard screens where the PreClear status is not displayed. Let me explain how this happens. I add a new hard drive to my unraid server via external SATA cable. If I reboot now, the Main screen will show a Unassigned section, listing this new drive. While running PreClear, the status will show on the Main screen. It will also show progress on the Dashboard screen. Last, it for sure will show status on the Tools --> PreClear screen. However, if I attach the new hard drive and Do Not Reboot, the Main and Dashboard screens will never show the PreClear status, and there is no Unassigned section on the Main screen. I can get the status only on the Tools --> PreClear screen. I'm not sure if that is a PreClear plugin issue, or Webgui issue but it would be cool if I can avoid a reboot to get the Main screen to show the Unassigned section and PreClear status. 4. Has anyone had any issues running a PreClear while a Parity Check was running? I ask because today I'm running both for the very first time, and I'm praying no conflicts or errros as a result. Thank you Thank you

+1 Nice!

thanks, didn't catch that the 9 changed to 10, my bad. I would still like to confirm I have the newest script. On page one, I can dl Joe's or the other one. How do I get gfjardim version, which was recently updated and even faster than the other two? thanks

What happened to 2016.9.27? Now the link on page 1 and the CA installs 2016.9.26?? So it sounds like the copy of the script is still a manual process. If that is true, then I'm only installing the plugin and still need to manually copy the script file. Where do I get the latest and greatest script file?

Ok, that link installed 26 again. The link on page 1 installs 27?? Again, if using CA, then does it copy the script files for you? Ok I use the link you sent, (or the one on page 1)do I need to manually copy any files?

bjp999 script has the "Fast post-read verify" option that relies on an executable file (named readvz and located on your flash drive) to verify if the disk is effectively zeroed. My script relies on a completely different approach that make both pre-read and post-read almost as fast as the disk can go. There's no switch, you have the optimal performance out-of-the-box. ok, thanks! Just to make sure I have the latest and greatest, I decided to Remove it again and then use Community Apps to install. It installed the 2016.9.26 version and not the current one. Looks like Community Apps needs to be updated. So if I get this right, I can install this manually using the link on page 1, and then I have to manually copy the script file. OR I can just use Community Apps and it does everything for me - Right?

Ok, I need to confirm I have the correct script. I want to use the latest and greatest that has the Fast option. Would that be the bjp999 scripts, and is the link on page 1 of this thread still correct? Or, is there a newer script from gfjardim that has the Fast? I'm still using the old one, so Fast option is not there. There is option to skip post and pre reads but not to go faster.

Oh crap, I didn't know that. I just Removed it and installed the new version of the plugin. It shows version 2016.9.27 now. I did not do anything with the actual scrip file. Thanks!

Per the unraid gui, plugin tab, I have the latest version, says No Update available. So I have the current release.

Preclear job completed successfully - no issues

Testing a preclear job now on a HGST 6tb drive unraid 6.2.2 preclear 2016.9.26b Plugin working fine so far.

Good feedback guys, thanks. As expected, answers vary. I guess I'll just keep doing what I have been doing.

@ gfjardim - after reading some of the recent post - I'm confused about the what options to use, can you please confirm your recommendations on how best to use the Preclear plugin with spinners, in terms of how many cycles, options to select, etc? For me, I have HGST Deskstar NAS drives and I run the Preclear from the gui, I change no options, take all your defaults, and go. The default is 1 cycle. When that completes with no issues, I'm done and move on to the next drive. So far, this has worked good for me. Some say you have to run more than 1 cycle. Others say that running preclear takes life away from the drive, so you need to limit the number of cycles. What do you recommend?

You may want to try to load (modprobe) the two drivers found by sensors-detect and see if that makes a difference. I also have one older Asus motherboard which doesn't have any pwm controllers, while my other ASrock motherboard does have them. I guess it is a bit miss-and-hit here! Thank you sir, I will do that. I had these before in my GO file, but it was removed when I upgraded to ver6. I assume I just put those lines back in my GO file - right? I didn't try this before because I had put those in my GO file for the Temps to work. My temps work now, without having anything else loaded, so I figured i didn't need anything else. I figured wrong

@ bonienl - can you please look at my post above and tell me if you see anything that is causing the AutoFan Detect not to work? thanks

Looked through the bios, found nothing. Here is my output from running that command: root@Tower:~# curl -skL http://www.lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect | perl # sensors-detect revision $Revision$ # System: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. X58A-UD3R # Kernel: 4.0.4-unRAID x86_64 # Processor: Intel® Core i7 CPU 960 @ 3.20GHz (6/26/5) This program will help you determine which kernel modules you need to load to use lm_sensors most effectively. It is generally safe and recommended to accept the default answers to all questions, unless you know what you're doing. Some south bridges, CPUs or memory controllers contain embedded sensors. Do you want to scan for them? This is totally safe. (YES/no): Silicon Integrated Systems SIS5595... No VIA VT82C686 Integrated Sensors... No VIA VT8231 Integrated Sensors... No AMD K8 thermal sensors... No AMD Family 10h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 11h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 12h and 14h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 15h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 16h thermal sensors... No AMD Family 15h power sensors... No AMD Family 16h power sensors... No Intel digital thermal sensor... Success! (driver `coretemp') Intel AMB FB-DIMM thermal sensor... No Intel 5500/5520/X58 thermal sensor... No VIA C7 thermal sensor... No VIA Nano thermal sensor... No Some Super I/O chips contain embedded sensors. We have to write to standard I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe. Do you want to scan for Super I/O sensors? (YES/no): Probing for Super-I/O at 0x2e/0x2f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... Yes Found `ITE IT8720F Super IO Sensors' Success! (address 0x290, driver `it87') Probing for Super-I/O at 0x4e/0x4f Trying family `National Semiconductor/ITE'... No Trying family `SMSC'... No Trying family `VIA/Winbond/Nuvoton/Fintek'... No Trying family `ITE'... No Some systems (mainly servers) implement IPMI, a set of common interfaces through which system health data may be retrieved, amongst other things. We first try to get the information from SMBIOS. If we don't find it there, we have to read from arbitrary I/O ports to probe for such interfaces. This is normally safe. Do you want to scan for IPMI interfaces? (YES/no): Probing for `IPMI BMC KCS' at 0xca0... No Probing for `IPMI BMC SMIC' at 0xca8... No Some hardware monitoring chips are accessible through the ISA I/O ports. We have to write to arbitrary I/O ports to probe them. This is usually safe though. Yes, you do have ISA I/O ports even if you do not have any ISA slots! Do you want to scan the ISA I/O ports? (yes/NO): Lastly, we can probe the I2C/SMBus adapters for connected hardware monitoring devices. This is the most risky part, and while it works reasonably well on most systems, it has been reported to cause trouble on some systems. Do you want to probe the I2C/SMBus adapters now? (YES/no): Using driver `i2c-i801' for device 0000:00:1f.3: Intel ICH10 YES Next adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at 0500 (i2c-0) Do you want to scan it? (yes/NO/selectively): Now follows a summary of the probes I have just done. Just press ENTER to continue: Driver `it87': * ISA bus, address 0x290 Chip `ITE IT8720F Super IO Sensors' (confidence: 9) Driver `coretemp': * Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9) Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (yes/NO): To load everything that is needed, add this to one of the system initialization scripts (e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.local): #----cut here---- # Chip drivers modprobe coretemp modprobe it87 /usr/bin/sensors -s #----cut here---- You really should try these commands right now to make sure everything is working properly. Monitoring programs won't work until the needed modules are loaded. *************************************************************** Warning: the preferred way to run this script non-interactively is with option --auto. Other methods are discouraged and may stop working at some point in the future. *************************************************************** temps show fine, but Detect under fan does nothing

I had already done that, system temps been working for weeks. I will dig through the BIOS settings again and make sure I didn't miss anything. I may be disabled in the BIOS.

ok, so I can just create the Extra folder again (it was removed when I upgraded to ver6) and reboot? Or do I need to run the installpkg command on the console? I thought with unraid ver6, that we were not supposed to use the manual way and the EXtra folder?? Edit: I went ahead and created the Extra folder and put there, rebooted and it is now installed. I still get nothing when running the find /sys/devices -type f -iname 'pwm[0-9]' Still does not Detect anything??

Ok weird, now it would seem I do not have perl installed. root@Tower:~# curl -skL http://www.lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect | perl -bash: perl: command not found I'll have to install again. Is there a plugin for perl or install the old fashion way?

I too am trying to get the Autofan working. My motherboard for sure has a pwm fan port and yet I get nothing at all when running that command - find /sys/devices -type f -iname 'pwm[0-9]' So why isn't Detect finding my pwm controller and how can I make it find it?