February 20, 201115 yr 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)
February 20, 201115 yr 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.
February 21, 201115 yr Author 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?
February 21, 201115 yr 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.
February 21, 201115 yr Author Do i have to reboot the server or anything? im looking on the flash drive and im not seeing it
February 21, 201115 yr 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?
February 21, 201115 yr Author 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
February 21, 201115 yr 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.
February 21, 201115 yr 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.
February 22, 201115 yr 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.
February 23, 201115 yr Author so i went on to preclear my next drive and it said MBR cannot be precleared. is this a bad thing?
February 23, 201115 yr 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.
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