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On 7/30/2023 at 2:05 PM, JonathanM said:

A pending sector should be reallocated or removed from the pending list when new data is written to that spot. It's difficult to determine which files occupy which sectors, so the easiest way is to run a non-correcting parity check which will read from all the disks, when the pending sector is read, it should (hopefully) be overwritten by good data calculated from the rest of the disks + parity after it fails to read, causing the Unraid error count to increase, and moving that sector from pending to reallocated.

 

I don't fully understand everything you've said here but I've just started a parity with the "write corrections" box unchecked. Funilly enough a scheduled parity check had just finished but of course the "write corrections" box was checked. When this has finished presumbly I need to run and extended SMART test on the drive in question again and then see if anything has changed? 

 

I think I'll be replacing the drive regardless, it's  one of the oldest in my array, it's a WD green, and it's only 2TB. It's showing 66,900 hours of run time so I feel like I've had decent value out of it to be fair. Since it's a WD Green I can only assume that it lived a previous life in one of my other machines before I added it to my server, but I can't be sure, I don't tend to record the history of my drives. 

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23 hours ago, JonathanM said:

yes, sector error counts increasing rapidly is bad, if another drive fails...

if you can get the pending count back to zero and no increasing reallocated, it may be ok, but you need to be ready to replace

Thank, how would I try to get the count back to zero? What steps would I need to take? 

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Hi. I got a warning message from unraid about one of my drives having a Current_Pending_Sector count of 2. I logged into the server and ran an exxtended SMART test and as soon as I started it I received another warning message tell me that the Current_Pending_Sector count on that drive was now 9. The test has finished and the count has remained at 9. I don't fully understand SMART reports but I think that Offline_Uncorrectable also needs to be looked at? This is 0. The extended SMART test did not come back as a fail - the info on that drive in unraid says "Last SMART test result: completed without error". 

 

Do I need to worry? Start planning to replace this drive maybe? Learn more about SMART reports? (I know the answer to the 3rd question already and I plan to do this.) 

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Probably a stupid question, but I'm trying to get auto fan configured. The dropdown in the settings screen identifies 3 fan controllers on my system - how do I know which one to specify for auto fan to take control of? 

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Hi, I've been trying to set up Ripper so that it encodes only to one format - I don't want MP3 and FLAC so I'm assuming that my ripping time per disk will decrease if I choose one rather than both. 

 

The instructions for how to do this earlier in this thread seem out of date - they refer to a line in the ripper.sh file which doesn't seem to exist. The instructions on github for controlling audio encoding options refer to making edits in abcde.conf and I cannot locate this file. 

 

Thanks in advance for any help. 

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I just installed what I assume is the latest version of this plugin, I used the link in the first post. For some reason the plugin does not seem to start up, when I go into settings the plugin status is always "stopped". 

Any idea what I need to check first? I've changed the drop down to enabled, yes and I've tried several unraid restarts. 

 

Edit: Plugin version = 2.14.0 & unraid version = 6.2.4

Edit 2: Upgraded my unraid OS - now it works. (Or at least the bits of it that I need are working, there are still a couple of issues, but I think they have been addressed already in this thread so I can worry about it later. )