Ok, I've started a few threads on here because I'm starting out with Unraid and am having issues. I try the search feature but I'm not getting answers. Have also read through the FAQ, Manuals and the Best of Forum thread. Please let me know if I need to do a better job finding stuff out because I don't want to be one of those guys on the forum that just asks questions when the answers are easily searchable.

 

Now, I'm having some weird issues with sleep. I wanted to get Unraid to sleep the server after 20 minutes of the drives having spun down. I'm new to linux so I wasn't familiar with scripting but the Simple Features add-on had sleep functionality. I installed that but the server still wouldn't sleep after the scheduled time delay. So while trying to figure that out I just chose to sleep the server from the main Unraid Gui page. The server went to sleep fine but weird things started to happen when I sent a WOL packet to wake it up.

 

The Web Gui still worked but the monitor that is directly attached to the server does not get a signal. It just stays blacked out. Didn't know what was going on so I thought I'd try to stop and start the array again. On the main page all drives were showing green. When I stopped the array the parity drive went to blue and my Disk1 went to red. Disk1 was showing an error that the wrong drive was in that slot even though the serial number of the drive in that slot and the missing drive were exactly the same. However, the capacity of the expected drive was different from the capacity of the actual drive. First time this happened it was looking for a drive that was 1.5PB (assuming this means petabytes). The second time it happened it was looking for an 805GB drive. The actual drive is 1.5TB.

 

I didn't know what to do and since I had access to the webgui, I just chose to restart the server. On restart, my two disk drives showed green but my parity drive showed a blue status. It stated that new parity drive is installed. I just went through 15 hours of a parity check that showed no errors so I know there should be parity data on that drive. Well, I started the array and it is doing another parity check. That's 3 parity checks in 4 days. I'm not sure what's going on but getting pretty tired and fed up with Unraid. I thought it'd be easy to switch over even without linux knowledge but I'm just running into so many problems and reading through hundred pages of threads just to find one small piece of info isn't doing it for me.

 

I attached my current syslog. Not sure if it's any help since I rebooted when I couldn't see the screen on the connected monitor. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

Also, I tried stopping the parity sync and the parity drive went to yellow. Pretty much said my drives were unprotected.

syslog_20120414.txt

Can you post a syslog as you're sending it to sleep?  SSH/Telnet into the box (using putty for example) and run:

 

tail -f /var/log/syslog

 

Send the box to sleep and cut and paste the resulting output from the terminal window.

 

Can you also list your hardware - some hardware (motherboards/controllers) don't deal with WOL very well. 

Can I do that now or do I need to wait until parity sync is complete? I'll list hardware when I get home.

I'd let the parity sync finish, just in case   Probably not necessary, but better to be safe!

Ok, the sync should be done by tomorrow. For my hardware I running a Gigabyte G41M-ES2H v1 motherboard. Never had any sleep issues with that while running Windows 7 and XP. 3Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo. 4GB Corsair Ram 800Mhz.

Well my thread got moved. I'm not sure how this is user customizations when I'm trying to get the server to sleep and wake correctly and that seems built into the main page of unraid.

Well my thread got moved. I'm not sure how this is user customizations when I'm trying to get the server to sleep and wake correctly and that seems built into the main page of unraid.

It is NOT built into the main page of the stock unRAID interface.  The only thing the main page shows are disks that are sleeping, NOT the entire server going to S3 sleep.

 

What you are doing is a operation that SOME hardware supports, and other does not.  My personal unRAID server will go to sleep, but can never be woken up.  Its hardware does not listen on the LAN once put to sleep.      Yours  might listen, but the video does not re-initialize when woken.  Others do not initialize the LAN, or re-enable Wake-on-LAN.    Some have had luck with an additional program that attempts to re-initialize the hardware upon waking. 

 

Good luck with the resolution, but it is a customization.  I was the one who moved your thread to where it would get the most attention by those who have attempted a similar customization.

 

Joe L.

Hey Joe, thanks for the reply. I thought I saw the sleep option there on the main page from the first time I installed Unraid but I may be wrong. For that I apologize and thanks for pointing that out to me.

 

My parity sync completed and once again the video didn't work. My parity and 2 disks show they are valid. I stopped the parity and got the same issues. I'm getting an invalid configuration. Parity is showing blue status. Disk 1 is showring red status with a note saying it is the "wrong" drive again. The serial number of the expected drive and the actual drive are the same. As I said before the actual drive is 1.5TB but the expected size is 875TB. If I only had a drive that big =). Anyway, I exported the syslog and attached it. It was too big so I zipped it. Hope that's ok. Any responses would be appreciated.

syslog_20120415.txt.zip

Another interesting thing, I tried refreshing the main page and it changed from expecting 875TB to expecting 3.46PB. Then I hit refresh again and it is expected 3.48PB and then 3.67PB and then 3.76PB. It keeps going up... and I think it has to do with how much time has passed. Cause I waited a while and then hit refresh and now it's expected 5.75PB.

 

Also, I chose to shutdown the system via the web gui after this situation. The web gui is no longer accessible after I chose to shutdown (i.e. the system shutdown) but the physical system seems to still be running. Lights and fans are still running. I guess I'm going to have to do a hard shutdown.

On restart, my parity disk has a blue status again and my other 2 disks are green. My array status states "new parity disk installed." So I guess I have to run parity sync again.

If this can't be figured out, can someone show me where can I find a build that is low power and works with sleep? I looked in the build section but there wasn't anything specific. If I can't figure sleep out I won't be able to use unraid and gotta find another backup solution.