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Unified PreClear script? Well it handls all the scripts, assuming they have been patched. Pity it can't do the patch, save a patched copy (temporarly) and use that. One other note, if you start it up, then decide to kill it (red X), on the Unassigned Devices Tab it shows it stopped, but it you try to start it again, the actually plug in page shows it still running and you can't start it again, have to reboot the server to clear it.

No worries, I know the feeling, was just so rattling that it just was such an drastic change, like I said I got it running now... but that was a serious suggestion, revise the OP with the CURRENT information and links and tips, lot to search thru and gets frustrating at times good work none the less.

was patched was the only one I had finally wiped all traces of Preclear off the drive, rebooted, reinstalled (for like the 10th time ) kicked it off with a block size of 512 and it appears to be working with the beta script at a good speed (130mb/s)

ok frustration level rising sorry... started with your script.. kicked off but still slow, was showing 2mb/s read on the log, oh forgot to raise it. Click the red "X" to stop... wait .. wair.. wait... won't stop so I can restart it after changing values. reboot server start again, changed it to 2mb read size, kick it off... showing 28mb/s read speevs (ve what I guess an effective read speed of 165mb/s. kill it to try Joe L. version... wait wait wait... reboot server see the note about 08.29 version, load it get Joe.L script, first time hangs on "starting" got the 'Drive Busy' message, ok guess it still needs patching kill it.. wait.. wait... wait.. reboot ok patch the script after finally finding the thread... kick it off with Joe L version, /boot/config/plugins/preclear.disk/preclear_disk.sh -M 4 -o 2 -c 3 -J /dev/sdb sfdisk: invalid option -- 'R' Usage: sfdisk [options] [[-N] ] sfdisk [options] Display or manipulate a disk partition table. Commands: -A, --activate [ ...] list or set bootable MBR partitions -d, --dump dump partition table (usable for later input) -J, --json dump partition table in JSON format -g, --show-geometry [ ...] list geometry of all or specified devices -l, --list [ ...] list partitions of each device -F, --list-free [ ...] list unpartitions free areas of each device -s, --show-size [ ...] list sizes of all or specified devices -T, --list-types print the recognized types (see -X) -V, --verify [ ...] test whether partitions seem correct --part-label [] print or change partition label --part-type [] print or change partition type --part-uuid [] print or change partition uuid --part-attrs [] print or change partition attributes device (usually disk) path partition number partition type, GUID for GPT, hex for MBR Options: -a, --append append partitions to existing partition table -b, --backup backup partition table sectors (see -O) --bytes print SIZE in bytes rather than in human readable format -f, --force disable all consistency checking --color[=] colorize output (auto, always or never) colors are enabled by default -N, --partno specify partition number -n, --no-act do everything except write to device --no-reread do not check whether the device is in use -O, --backup-file override default backup file name -o, --output output columns -q, --quiet suppress extra info messages -X, --label specify label type (dos, gpt, ...) -Y, --label-nested specify nested label type (dos, bsd) -L, --Linux deprecated, only for backward compatibility -u, --unit S deprecated, only sector unit is supported -h, --help display this help and exit -v, --version output version information and exit Available columns (for -o): gpt: Device Start End Sectors Size Type Type-UUID Attrs Name UUID dos: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs Boot End-C/H/S Start-C/H/S bsd: Slice Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Bsize Cpg Fsize sgi: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Attrs sun: Device Start End Sectors Cylinders Size Type Id Flags For more details see sfdisk(. Sorry: Device /dev/sdb is busy.: 1 what am I doing wrong? I've precleared a dozen drives on this machine pre-6.2

h, I understand, was just just such a glarring hit in performance, the way it's running right now (your script, default settings) it would be 500 hours per pass Also it still won't stop on it's own, when trying to cancel it. Have to reboot the server to get it clear to start again. Yes this has been with your script, not Joe or bjp999, do those STILL require modification to work under 6.2? What do you recommend the read size be set at to get performance back? Might I suggest a new OP bringing things up to date? Gather together all the info on one spot since this has gone thru so much changes and such, spread over 50+ pages it's confusing and things get missed when people are trying to set things up.

well the good new is the find error has gone away, the bad new is it's still runing like cold molasses been running about 15 minutes, peek at the preclear report says... # unRAID Server Pre-Clear of disk /dev/sdb # Cycle 1 of 3, partition start on sector 64 # Step 1 of 5 - Pre-read in progress: (0% Done) # ** Time elapsed: 0:16:28 | Current speed: 158 MB/s | Average speed: 2 MB/s same conditions as before, I dtopped the last one at 14 hours and 4% done of the 1st pass .... got a problem here somewhere

find out shortly

ADDENDUM: Restarted it this after the above was posted as of right now - Pre-Read: 1% @ 152 MB/s (7:51:46) pulled up the status page and get... \ unRAID Server Pre-Clear of disk /dev/sdb Cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 64. Step 1 of 5 - Pre-read in progress: (1% Done) ** Time elapsed: 7:52:29 | Current speed: 159 MB/s | Average speed: 2 MB/s and a constant stream of - find: '/tmp/.preclear/' : No such file or directory putty in and there IS '/tmp/.preclear/' directory which has 'sdb' folder which has ls -l total 32 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 97 Aug 27 18:41 dd_output -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 3984 Aug 27 18:41 display_out -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 6 Aug 27 10:44 pid -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 187 Aug 27 10:44 smart_cycle_1_start -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 187 Aug 27 10:44 smart_cycle_initial_start -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 205 Aug 27 10:44 smart_final -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 226 Aug 27 10:44 smart_final_540484710986852980 -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 414 Aug 27 10:44 smart_out seeing no (obvious) errors in the log that would be repeating every 30 seconds oe ao (ie. find: '/tmp/.preclear/' : No such file or directory) diagnostics attached... this is definitely not good pinewood-diagnostics-20160827-1845.zip

is this broken in the latest version for RC4? I kicked off a preclear last night for a new drive, get up this morning and it's here... Pre-Read (1 of 3): 2% @ 165 MB/s (10:09:39) tried to stop it and it won't stop, well it gives the cancel dialog but keeps going.. finally had to reboot the server to get it to stop version shows as - 2016.08.26b set up to use the internal script Script: Present, version 0.6-beta and getting find: '/tmp/.preclear/' : No such file or directory on the console... er... this is not good?

I will and report back, but the question then. If I registered this now (since it shows it can be) then later it's decided that it's blocked... Would my registration key die? Server not start up?

Asked on Amazon and got: After consulting with Kingston Support, the answers are: 1) Yes. It has it's unique GUID 2) No, it cannot boot from any of the two ports Kingston Technology U.S. Sales Support - End User +1 (800) 835-6575 U.S./Canada Technical Support +1 (800) 435-0640 +1 (714) 435-2639 My experience with this one. 1. It does NOT have a unique GUID, Tom reported it as duplicate. 2. Boots from the SD card port. (at least on my HP Micro Servers). Ok, exactly the opposite of my experience (in the last 20 minutes), just received one from Amazon yesterday.. DOES boot from MicroSD port (Gigabyte MB) IS a registrable GUID (on v6b10a) Flash Vendor: Generic- Flash Product: USB3.0_CRW_-SD Flash GUID: 0BDA-0326-0000-xxxxxxxxxxxx Registered to: Unregistered