Hi all,

I've recently bought one of this drives and today I installed it into my computer. Now the name displayed on Unraid main page is "External_Disk_0_0E088AF__________0_A" and the temp is 0°... it's a motherboard problem? I'm using an Asus P5W Dh Deluxe and the drive is attached to the "Raid" Sata port.

 

Please help me 

Hi all,

I've recently bought one of this drives and today I installed it into my computer. Now the name displayed on Unraid main page is "External_Disk_0_0E088AF__________0_A" and the temp is 0°... it's a motherboard problem? I'm using an Asus P5W Dh Deluxe and the drive is attached to the "Raid" Sata port.

 

Please help me 

Configure the BIOS to show it as a independent disk, not a RAID disk.

I nearly solved the problem changing the sata port, but now i have a bigger problem: every time I boot up my server I have to re-add the 2 drives that I recently added...this is very disappointing  . What can I do?

 

Please help, i'm a noob 

I nearly solved the problem changing the sata port, but now i have a bigger problem: every time I boot up my server I have to re-add the 2 drives that I recently added...this is very disappointing  . What can I do?

 

Please help, i'm a noob 

Yes, but you've given us no clues...

 

I'm moving this to the general support forum, where you'll find stickies on how to submit the needed system log in order to figure out what is happening.    Are you referring to your BIOS? or unRAID's disk assignment screen?  Without a serial number to identify the disks, you are not going to get far with that hardware.  unRAID uses the disk serial and model numbers to identify the disks.

 

Oh yes, you'll have to tell us what version of unRAID you are using...  (you basically said, I tried to drive to California, but could not, what part do I need to buy? ... but did not even tell us is you are driving a car, bus, truck, etc.)

I'm really sorry, I was trying to find a quick solution...stupid me

So now, i solved the previous problem reguarding the Sata port but now I have a bigger one: every time i boot my system up, unraid seems to forget to add the new two disks that I've recently added (the WD10EADS and the WD20EARS) so I always have to re-add them.

I attached the system log of my server.

I hope I didn't do something wrong...

 

Thanks for the help

Unraid_Server.doc

I'm really sorry, I was trying to find a quick solution...stupid me

So now, i solved the previous problem reguarding the Sata port but now I have a bigger one: every time i boot my system up, unraid seems to forget to add the new two disks that I've recently added (the WD10EADS and the WD20EARS) so I always have to re-add them.

I attached the system log of my server.

I hope I didn't do something wrong...

 

Thanks for the help

Your flash drive FAT file system seems to be corrupted and is being marked as read-only to prevent further corruption.  It cannot save your changes to the USB flash drive to record your new disk configuration

 

Put it in a windows box and run scandisk/checkdisk on it.

 

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel: FAT: Filesystem error (dev sde1)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 1808654)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     File system has been set read-only

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel: FAT: Filesystem error (dev sde1)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 1808654)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel: FAT: Filesystem error (dev sde1)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 1808654)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel: FAT: Filesystem error (dev sde1)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 1808654)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel: FAT: Filesystem error (dev sde1)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 1808654)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel: FAT: Filesystem error (dev sde1)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 1808654)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel: FAT: Filesystem error (dev sde1)

Jul  5 20:27:11 Server kernel:     fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos

 

Jul  5 20:27:12 Server kernel: write_file: error 30 opening /boot/config/super.dat

Jul  5 20:27:12 Server kernel: md: could not write superblock from /boot/config/super.dat

You are my hero 

Now it works fine!! Last question: is it normal that I have a transfer rate over Gigabit line of 30/35 Mb/s without the parity drive? I'm using a mac with smb

 

Thank you again

Those speeds are a bit slow since you aren't using a parity drive, but with a parity drive enabled those speeds would be normal.  You mentioned you are using WDEARS drives.  Do they have any jumpers installed, or did they ever have jumpers installed?  Have you enabled the 4k MBR aligned setting on the unRAID Settings page (assuming you are using unRAID version 4.7)?

I'm writing on a brand new EARS, so without jumper, with 4k MBR setting enabled. The other disks are MBR unaligned...problems of the motherboard (P5W Dh Deluxe)?

 

Edit: Yes, I'm using unraid 4.7

Did you preclear the drive?  If so, do you still have the SMART report?  It might have some clues as to why the drive is a bit slow.

 

Also, the SMB implementation on Mac is a bit weak, so that could be slowing things down as well.  The Mac is hardwired and also Gigabit LAN capable, right?  If you have a Windows machine available, try a transfer from it and see if the speeds are the same.

I tried, and in fact from a windows box the transfer speed was considerably higher (50/60 MegaBytes) so it's not an unraid's problem. Every machine is on a gigabit lan (also the mac).

Today I was transferring some files from my mac and I saw the transfer speed rise to 60 MB for about a minute and than fall again ... it's a mac (smb) problem  

"Jumbo" frames could solve the problem?

Try NFS on the Mac. Use Disk Utility to configure automounts. I doubt Jumbo Frames will make any difference on a LAN.