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Got it. Wish I knew how to show that. Well looks like my previous issue is back. I unmounted two 8TB Easystore USB drives. When I reconnected them they showed up as sdi and sdj. Were previously Dev 3 and Dev 4. Now when I click on the device name (sdi, sdj) no information shows up. No attributes, no Capabilities, no SMART info etc. This is for both the drives. But I can them with smartctl. It briefly worked after I updated to 6.9.2. Thoughts?

how did you go about doing the update?

Well, thought I was safe from the sync issues but alas. Sync status: Not synced Not synced or not connected to peers Current Blockchain Status: Not Synced. Looks like Docker on unRAID is a no-go for Chia. If you are putting resources into this I'd be checking your status often.

question about an NVMe drive that is not showing up in atop. Goal is to watch I/O and get stats. Said drive is running on an PCIe adapter. Drive works fine. Shows in the unraid GUI. Any thoughts why it's not showing in atop? I've tried expanding the rows of LVM and DSK devices. It's just not there, in atop this drive:

This solved the issue. It's now showing as Dev 1 (sdb). No more errors and works with the docker container. I have another question about an NVMe drive that is not showing up in atop. Goal is to watch I/O and get stats. It's running on an PCIe adapter. Drive works fine. Shows in the unraid GUI. Any thoughts why it's not showing in atop?

I haven't used the HBA card since either. Or the iStar hot swap enclosures. Or the cables... All going to the trash. Not worth another episode.

Yes, I clicked unmounted and waited til it said mount. I did notice after I remounted it that it seemed to come line and back online on it's own. Meaning it said "unmount" then "mount" then "unmount" by itself. I then unmounted and moved it to another USB port. odd indeed. Could be a bad USB port or Easystore drive...

Will do. BTW, do you know what these errors mean? Could they have been when I disconnected the UD disk from a windows network share? Or some other process that was trying to access it when I unmounted it?

I have one unassigned drive that isn't showing any SMART info when you click on the drive name. Clicking on SMART short self-test: does nothing. Although using smartctl -a /dev/sdn I can see the SMART data. I also have a bunch of errors in my log for other drives that aren't there. Maybe old Unassigned Devices? And out of curiosity, why does this particular drive show up as sdn while the other drives show up as Dev 1, Dev2... ?

Are you running the container with network type Host or Bridge?

I'm moving everything to a dedicated machine as well so I can get my unRAID server back Have you tried the introducers to help with syncing?

@Gnomuz good points. I'll eventually move my farming plots to a segregated VLAN. Question: what network type are you using for the Chia container? Host or Bridge? Also, how do you like the Asrock Rack X470D4U2-2T ? I just picked up a 5900x yesterday and was looking at the PCIe Gen4 version of that board (X570D4U-2L2T). Do you feel like you have enough expansion for your use? Would love to hear your thoughts.

has anyone checked their number of FULL_NODE peers? (docker exec -it chia venv/bin/chia show -s -c) I was showing ~7 and I've since forwarded port 8444 to my server. I'm now seeing ~ 14 peers. I've seen on Reddit that some people have ~40 peers showing. Is there something further I need to do to increase this number? And should I be running the container in host or bridge mode?

Thanks that was helpful. I was able to download it. I noticed it's located in /var/lib/docker/containers/..... Doesn't that mean it's held in memory? And being that it's 1.6GB I'm thinking that's taking up a decent amount of space. Is there a way to assign the log file a different directory? Edit: The log at that location is only showing INFO. It gives no information about the plotting phases. Which is what I was hoping for. I'm assuming there is a log somewhere that will allow you to analyze your plotting status. See how long each phase takes etc. How can I log this?

Thanks. Is there a way to download this file so I can look at it in a text editor? or do you know how I can navigate to the log file? When I use those commands it prints thousands of lines and crashes my terminal.

Has anyone found a solution for adding Plotman or Swar to the the container? or would it just be installed and run from within the unRAID OS?

the clock chia is using is not synced to my timezone. But I'm still syncing. The time shows UTC in the logs. I thought that was normal.

Something weird is going on with my logs. I changed my config.yaml file to the following: logging: &id001 log_filename: log/debug.log log_level: INFO log_maxfilesrotation: 7 log_stdout: true I can see INFO items in the log when I'm open the log via the container's icon. But when I look at debug.log there is nothing there other than the inital warnings before I made changes to the .yaml file. Is there another place I should be looking for the logs?

What is the general consensus on opening router port 8444 to your container for this? Do we feel the Chia software is secure enough? I haven't opened the port on my router yet but I'm getting fewer peers as those who do. Thoughts?

correct. you just type the words with one space. No punctuation. Like: dog fish bird house car

did you say you were farming in Ubuntu? Have you tried to disable the firewall (UFW) or open a port 8444? I think I read about that in another thread.

I've been using tmux and sleep successfully for this. What I do: Open a terminal and start a tmux Make that tmux terminal split screen with Ctrl and b then % (this saves screen real estate!) You can swap between the split screens with Ctrl and b then <arrow key> I do this a few times to make ~ 8 screens (4 windows split) Then manually start the plotting in each pane with: (first one) docker exec -it chia venv/bin/chia plots create -b 3200 -r 4 -n 1 -t /plotting -d /plots (second one) sleep 70m && docker exec -it chia venv/bin/chia plots create -b 3200 -r 4 -n 1 -t /plotting -d /plots sleep 140m && docker exec -it chia venv/bin/chia plots create -b 3200 -r 4 -n 1 -t /plotting -d /plots sleep 210m && docker exec -it chia venv/bin/chia plots create -b 3200 -r 4 -n 1 -t /plotting -d /plots etc. etc. I'm still experimenting with my parallel stagger. Your source, destination and time delay will vary. tip: you can scroll up in a split pane with Ctrl and b then [ Of course it would be easier to use a plot manager which i'll set up soon.

Have you looked at Swar at all? I was going to install that tonight. Maybe I should give plotman a go?

So I just moved some files from the cache to the unassigned NVMe drive and it showed 1.2 GiB/s I'm thinking maybe my testing metric is off. What is a good way to test drive writes in unRAID? I don't understand why it varies this much for the different test methods. And should an 970 Evo Plus be written to faster?

I have 2 X Sabrent Rocket 1TB NVMe drives on a supermicro PCIe adapter card. I have another no brand Amazon adapter with 1 X Samsung Evo 970 Plus. fio to the 970 Evo: WRITE: bw=270MiB/s (284MB/s) fio to the cache pool: WRITE: bw=91.9MiB/s (96.3MB/s) dd to the 2 X Sabrent Cache pool: between 200 and 300 MB/s on several tests. Was I supposed to find and install drivers for these drives? I need some help trouble shooting to find the issue. Aslo, realized all SSD is slow in my system. dd to a SATA SSD = 205 MB/s