jsoonias Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Hey guys i think this might be a silly question but im about to preclear 2 new drives but i dont know what there drive designation is. Help?(first time) Quote Link to comment
jsoonias Posted February 20, 2011 Author Share Posted February 20, 2011 Spoke to soon. thanks Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 20, 2011 Share Posted February 20, 2011 Spoke to soon. thanks I guess you found the "-l" option on the newest version of the preclear script. (As of this post, newest version is 1.6) Joe L. Quote Link to comment
jsoonias Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 Ok first drive cleared... but i think i have some errors because it does not look like Joe L's last picture on his preclear post. so first question, how do i give you guys the information on forum? is there a copy/paste thing i can do on my server? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Ok first drive cleared... but i think i have some errors because it does not look like Joe L's last picture on his preclear post. so first question, how do i give you guys the information on forum? is there a copy/paste thing i can do on my server? The files from the preclear process are in a preclear_reports sub-directory on your flash drive. You can zip them and attach them to your next post. Quote Link to comment
jsoonias Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 Do i have to reboot the server or anything? im looking on the flash drive and im not seeing it Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 Do i have to reboot the server or anything? im looking on the flash drive and im not seeing it What version of preclear are you running? Is it the newest version? Quote Link to comment
jsoonias Posted February 21, 2011 Author Share Posted February 21, 2011 How new is the newest one? Raj built my server for me and the flash drive had preclear on it. under the date modified it says june 10 2009 Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 How new is the newest one? Raj built my server for me and the flash drive had preclear on it. under the date modified it says june 10 2009 Download and install the newest version from the preclear thread in the Customization forum. Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 21, 2011 Share Posted February 21, 2011 How new is the newest one? Raj built my server for me and the flash drive had preclear on it. under the date modified it says june 10 2009 That is very old. Version 0.9.3 July 21, 2009 (0.9.4 and 0.9.5 were internal versions) Version 0.9.6 August 31, 2009 Version 0.9.7 Sept 25, 2009 Version 0.9.8 Oct 06, 2009 Version 0.9.9 Jan 14, 2011 Version 0.9.9a Jan 15, 2011 Version 0.9.9b Jan 16, 2011 Version 0.9.9c Jan 16, 2011 Version 1.1 Jan 23, 2011 Version 1.2 Jan 29, 2011 Version 1.3 Feb 1, 2011 Version 1.4 Feb 4, 2011 Version 1.5 Feb 8, 2011 Version 1.6 Feb 8, 2011 Current version of preclear_disk.sh is 1.6. When unRAID 5.0beta5 is released I'll be releasing version 1.7 of the preclear script since it will use a new way of defining disks in the the config/disk.cfg file. (I can't release 1.7 yet since I don't yet know what format lime-tech will use in the file and have not yet written code to deal with it. I'll learn that when 5.0beta5 is available for download.) If your preclear_disk.sh file has a date of June 2009, it is pretty old. Joe L. Quote Link to comment
jsoonias Posted February 22, 2011 Author Share Posted February 22, 2011 Should i run the preclear again on the same disk? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 22, 2011 Share Posted February 22, 2011 Should i run the preclear again on the same disk? completely up to you. The newer versions added a verification to the post-read, and a far better output report. The basics is very much the same otherwise. You might use the new preclear_disk.sh -V /dev/sdX command to perform a post-read verify on your pre-cleared disk. Quote Link to comment
jsoonias Posted February 23, 2011 Author Share Posted February 23, 2011 so i went on to preclear my next drive and it said MBR cannot be precleared. is this a bad thing? Quote Link to comment
Joe L. Posted February 23, 2011 Share Posted February 23, 2011 so i went on to preclear my next drive and it said MBR cannot be precleared. is this a bad thing? Yes, it means the preclear failed. Quote Link to comment
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