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Total update, replaced controller, replace cables. replaced harddrives, updated unraid. I would still get failed drives from brand new harddrives right out the wrapper. I am like pulling out my hair now. even after a successful preclear drives will then get disabled on parity sync. here is my diagnostics, any suggestions?
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On 9/2/2019 at 3:49 PM, Kevek79 said:
Didn't you start this whole adventure because of a non working Marvel controller?
So why replacing it with another one of those ?
yea right, well because it didn't give problems until it completely started to die, so I see that as manufacture issue, not a compatibility issue. Anyway that controller didn't come through, amazon ran out of it. I picked up I/O Crest 2 Port SATA III and 2 Port eSATA, Yes another marvel chipset.
New issue though. So all the drives picked up this time except one. I am getting the following error for this one drive.
Sep 9 11:50:06 Tower kernel: ata7.02: READ LOG DMA EXT failed, trying PIO Sep 9 11:50:06 Tower kernel: ata7.02: failed to read log page 10h (errno=-5) Sep 9 11:50:06 Tower kernel: ata7.02: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x800 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 Sep 9 11:50:06 Tower kernel: ata7.02: configured for UDMA/133 (device error ignored)soon as I assign the drive to disk 3, it vanishes. Any ideas?
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ok i just put a quick purchase on SYBA SI-PEX40076 2 eSATA III from amazon. I know its now on the list of compatible or incompatible devices, but its low profile and relatively cheep. If any one have any suggestions please feel free to let me know too. I think i can always send this back. Not sure about my enclosure.
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great, story of my life, thanks. I guess i have no choice but to find a sata controller and a decent enclosure.
my current usb enclosure also supports esata, how about this?
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sigh... well I did the new config, and started to assign drives. When i assigned drive3, usb device 2, it vanished from the list. I was like wtf! ok so i thought maybe it spun down or something. I rebooted and now no USB disks are found, only my cache drive which is on the on board sata controller. tower-syslog-20190831-0029.zip
scratching my head hear. the device i have is Mediasonic-H82-SU3S2-ProBox
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Just now, johnnie.black said:
Assuming parity is valid you can do this:
-Tools -> New Config -> -Assign all disks, including new disk2
-Important - After checking the assignments leave the browser on that page, the "Main" page.-Open an SSH session/use the console and type (don't copy/paste directly from the forum, as sometimes it can insert extra characters):
mdcmd set invalidslot 2 29-Back on the GUI and without refreshing the page, just start the array, do not check the "parity is already valid" box (GUI will still show that data on parity disk(s) will be overwritten, this is normal as it doesn't account for the invalid slot command, but they won't be as long as the procedure was correctly done), disk2 will start rebuilding, disk should mount immediately but if it's unmountable don't format, wait for the rebuild to finish and then run a filesystem check
hmmm sounds like a plan, i will let you know how it turns out. Thanks for the direction.
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Just now, johnnie.black said:
You can do that with the invalid slot command, but need more details, like what Unraid release you are running and if using single or dual parity.
hey Ti-Ti, im running 6.6.7 with single parity drive. I know exactly what drive is parity and what data drive 1, 2, and 3 are. Drive 2 is brand new drive which needs to be rebuilt. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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yea, i have a dell optiplex 9020 as my server, and I cant remember the addition scsi controller. I believe its a marvel chipset though, 4 port. Server been running for a good 5 years. 5 drives, parity, 3x DATA, and cache. the last 3 months have been hell with failed drives. I basically had to restore files once as 2x drives failed at one point, all with high CRC errors. It start to become super coincidental that the same drive numbers would fail. It wasn't until the actual card went kaput that i new for sure it was the pcie scsi controller.
I have a 4 bay disk enclosure which i have to run the power from the workstation out the back as well as the sata cables. so since i have to go with something different, I might as well go with a enclosure with its own power, 8 bays so i can go double parity. going through the whole process of restoring files from discovered chunks on the disk was hellish and I didn't want to go through that again.
I figured i would give usb3.0 a try, as I would have to find a good HBA/Controller, go though flashing it etc, I just wanted to keep it simple I guess. Plus i would still need to find a enclosure with it'ts own power and can support 5+ drives.
None the less it wouldn't change where i am now. I still need to get a new configuration and some how rebuild disk 2 off the current parity if I can.
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ok Gurus here is my dilemma. I have been failing desk left and right. I replaced disks, replaced sata cables, and then finally the system will not boot because it hangs on the controller. Before that I had replaced the failed drive and started a rebuild only for it to hang on constant read errors from disk 3. Disk 2 is the failed drive.
Anyway i decided i needed a new controller and that I still need a better enclosure so I went with a USB3.0 eight disk encloser. problem is I need to get the system to recognize the new configuration with the disks coming off USB. I know i can use "new config" tool, but from what i read, once done i will not be able to rebuild the failed drive 2. Is this so?
I read some where i can keep the assignments, as well as flag the parity disk as good parity. If so why would I not be able to rebuild disk2?
Is there any workarounds on this or am I going to just have to face the fact that disk2 and its data will now be lost?
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I am looking for any help which can help me install MKVtoolnix on unraid 6.1.9. I have downloaded some distributions from slackbuilds.org, but i keep getting c compiler errors when attempting the build.
I have "community applications" installed but i can't find any c compiler for unraid in it. No, I can't use the docker GUI version of MKVtoolsnix. I need to be able to use the CLI because, I have a script which automatically modify video files for me. I am no linux pro, but I can do a thing here and there.
Thanks, any help would be appreciated.
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Ok, i just upgraded from unraid v5 rc12a to 6.1.9. I am getting use to the docker because i was able to get my plex server running maintaining my settings. However now I need to fix this issue where i have a script modify videos after they are downloaded via sabnzb, the problem is the script can no longer execute the commands mkvinfo or mkvmerge.
How do I user this container to get the same effect? Can i use wget/wput to start interfacing the docker container?
or is there a plugin which i can use to get access directly to the CLI as before?
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Works perfect, just what i was looking for. Thanks
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No i have everything on cache, nothing runs off the usb except the system. The only thing i did do is create a swap file on the usb, not sure if that could be a cause of its quick failure. I have 6 gigs of ram on a HP Microserver, and 1 gig swap on the usb.
A swap file would definitely dramatically reduce the life of a USB drive s it would cause a lot of writes to happen. If you want/need a swap file/partition then the place to put it would be on the cache drive.
I didn't even think about this... Thanks I will definitely change up my set up with this in mind. Tom just blessed me with new Key so when i get home today after work Ill make those changes. Thanks again guys for the support.
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You say you were running Plex - for a USB drive to die that quickly... are you storing the Plex database etc on the USB stick? If so, take this opportunity to put it on a cache drive or on an array disk. Plex read/writes will chew USB flash drives very quickly.
No i have everything on cache, nothing runs off the usb except the system. The only thing i did do is create a swap file on the usb, not sure if that could be a cause of its quick failure. I have 6 gigs of ram on a HP Microserver, and 1 gig swap on the usb.
This is the main reason I went with the Kingston Flash Card Reader MobileLite G2 USB 2.0 Multi-card Reader, when the card goes I throw in my backup SD card and I have minimal down time. The GUID is with the reader and not the card.
Nice! i wish i knew about this before, if it seems these cards don't have a long lifespan this would definitely be the best coarse.
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Thanks for the replies guys. Yea It was booting from the flash drive, and now with the backup on the new flash drive, it loads up with no problems. Now I am like a lost sheep as my server was my media server running plex. None the less the only thing i can do now is request a new key and try and see if I can RMA this retarded card. I basically had it running on that card for the last year.
This card was a verbatim 4 gig, now i can only hope this 8gig scan disk last longer.
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Oh well i guess my flash drive bit it. I decided to upgrade it since it wasn't working. Thinking it must be a kernel issue. after backing it up and then coping the images for the newest unraid-RC12, it seems not the flash drive can't be recognized. Today is not my day.
Well i will try and copy my backup to another flash drive, even I know this wont really do nothing for me tonight. Well crossing fingers.
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Need some help, my server hung as i was attempting to spin down my disk. I was able to log in via ssh and look at processes. I then tried to stop my plugins via the scripts in /etc/rc.d/ those hung and did nothing. I then attempted to kill -9 the processes which again did nothing. after I figured a quick init 6
the system never came back up. Now when i boot I get the following error
VFS: Cannot open root device "(null)" or unknown-block(2,0)
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available partitions:
0800 3987648 sda driver:sd
0801 3987620 sda1 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000sda1
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.1.1-unRaid #1
Call Trace:
[<c1309aa3>] panic+0x50/0x143
[<c1451af4>] mount_block_root+0x1e6/0x1fa
[<c10896a5>] ? sys_mknod+0x13/0x15
[<c14511e0>] ? parse_early_options+0x1c/0x1c
[<c1451b75>] mount_root+0x6d/0x75
[<c1451c8e>] prepare_namespace+0x111/0x138
[<c14512d1>] kernel_init+0xf1/0xfd
[<c130c676>] kernel_thread_helper+0x6/0xd
HELP!
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Still no go for me with this plugin. I attempted to start services on their own from mysql and simplefeatures and this is what i get
Starting MySQL.. ERROR! the server quit without updating PID file (/var/lib/mysql/NewsNab.pid).
and simple features just says can't set home directory. Blah, I guess i have to stop trying to use this plugin and just install each piece manually and pray.
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How can I install the plugin if I don't user a cache drive? Since the plugin is set to install in /mnt/cache/.... this plugin don't work for me. I need my install to go towards /mnt/disk#
Well, I made a share called "Applications" set to cache only and used that, ie /mnt/Applications/newznab. Missing the cache you could just assign the share to a single disk, ie set include to diskx where x = disk number you want to use. Know that the disk and parity will always be spinning. If you want to use another drive outside the array then read about the mount any drive plugin and figure out how to mount a drive.
thats fine with me, I have another server which has my sbnzb/couchpotato/sickbeard/plex media server. Its quit busy all the time and i have no issues. the performance loss i loose by not having the cache is minimal. Moving 40+ gigs a night onto the raid only to have to read from it anyway later when you want to watch something doesn't really matter.
But you know what you just gave me an idea, this server im building is for newznab only. In reality i don't need an array I can just have the 1 disk i have at this time set as the cache. My whole purpose is to check out newzab and see if its feasibly to index myself instead of requiring a index site. I can worry about arrays if i need to protect the database in the future. I went unraid instead of ubunu is because the footprint on the OS is smaller, and i can run it on a piece of crap that don't have much memory. (for testing)
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How can I install the plugin if I don't user a cache drive? Since the plugin is set to install in /mnt/cache/.... this plugin don't work for me. I need my install to go towards /mnt/disk#
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Quick question, I had my temp directory set to /mnt/disk1/plex/tmp which work fine for transcoding. I then got more memory into my server and now want to point the transcoding to /tmp which should speed things up a bit. I made the change from the unraid gui and also confirmed the settings.ini reflected the change. However when I restart or even reboot, transcoding still use the /mnt/disk1/plex/tmp.
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Rename passwd to passwdbackup and restart, unraid should create it again with the defaults, let's see if that changes anything
Is this for my issue? Your saying to rename passwd command and restart Unraid or restart the install?
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I was slowing moving over my old plugins from bennie chan to influencers, but the couch potato v2 will not install. Sabnzb worked good, and since the old sickbeard still works I doubt i will change it out until it totally breaks or the features are totally stale. none the less i am looking on figuring out how to get the couchpotato plugin to install.
unraid version:5.0-beta14
plugin: couchpotato_v2_unplugged.plg
from: https://github.com/Influencer/UNplugged
install log:
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Thanks
Failed Controller, Failed Disk, New USB enclosure
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do you think i need to flash the new controller? LSI Logic SAS 9207-8i Storage Controller LSI00301 if so can any one point me where i can get what i need to do so?