Hey guys

 

firstly - must say that all the responses on this forum generally says how much trust the people place in Unraid - and that normally wins the product for me. 

 

I decided to dip my toes into the unraid environment (especially having a mdadm array giving up on me yesterday- losing about 3.5TB of HD movies )

 

so basically - i installed the latest beta Unraid - Version -

 

unRAID Server Basic

version: 5.0-beta14

Running on a Q6600 system, 4GB ram, and +- 9x1TB hard drives already connected(a;tho i am going to use only three - i plan to grow the unraid in the near future)

 

 

- onto a flash drive, and booted up the system.

 

I then added three drives (1TB seagate's), and configured usershares as per the detailed guides provided(Saved alot of time - THX GUYS ).

Parity generation was then allowed to complete, and i gave it a secondary check after it was generated in order to be sure.

 

My next step in testing - controlling the powerdown and power-on for the system

 

Issue is - even if i use a clean power down via the HTTP interface, and then powering up the system manually via power button - the RAID doesn't start up automatically

RAID-Status after boot-up reports : Stopped. Configuration valid.

Syslog capture

http://pastebin.com/MMFBdvpJ

 

clicking on the raid start button does bring up the array, but i would like to automate this (since this is going to run in the back ground allowing a MEdia center to retrieve data when needed)

 

Is this a design feature (probable safety guard against drive failure)? Not sure if i missed a configuration setting somewhere - so any assistance will be greatly appreciated

(Under disk settings enable auto start is set to yes - cant find any other setting to allow the RAID to start)

 

 

Next question, while i am here

 

Flash disc's does fail sometimes . yes i know - probably not soon - but is there a way to backup configs and register with a new flash?

(yes i know - the licensing is all based on this - but i don't want to be stuck)

- and secondly - does replacing the flash affect the chances of recovering/starting the raid? - it seems if i create and start the raid as per original order(via serial number), then it should be safe?

 

Is there a way to improve the boot-up time of the unraid system? ( except for allowing it to go to sleep in stead of complete shutdown)

(the unraid share is going to be utilized to store movies/series which is not accesed often, so to safe power it will mostly be powered down completely in order to safe power and drive-life.

 

 

This should be all for now  - thanx for helping

 

Neo_x

 

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Edit

 

Solved - Changed and applied the Auto-start functionality to No, saved/applied, and then back to yes. Seems to be fine now.

 

With respect to your first question:

 

Click Settings

Click Disk Settings

Make sure Auto Start is set to Yes

 

With respect to the second question:

 

It is wise to make a periodic copy of everything on your flash drive,  in that case, should you need to bring in a replacement flash drive you can set that up as a "clean" unraid flash drive and then copy over your backup.

 

Remember that should you run into an issue that makes you need a new flashdrive you will also need a new license key, you could take a spare one if you want to be extra-sure, but it has been known that asking Tom for a replacement also works.

 

Boot up time cannot be speeded up, basically the whole system is setting itself up on a ramdrive at bootup, especially when you have applications added it will take a bit longer (although with me I am always up and running within 10 minutes). Issue is that you basically just should not power it down. With all disks setup to be spun down without use there is not a very large energy footprint left and you can safely leave it on.

 

You can install simplefeatures (good idea anyhow), this has an "S3 sleep" function, but you need to experiment to see if it works for you.

With respect to your first question:

 

Click Settings

Click Disk Settings

Make sure Auto Start is set to Yes

 

 

This is the strange part - the settings is already enabled - which leads me to believe something is not working as it should?

 

 

I will try and implement the sleep and spin-down functionality - but a complete power down will be preferred if at all possible

With respect to your first question:

 

Click Settings

Click Disk Settings

Make sure Auto Start is set to Yes

 

 

This is the strange part - the settings is already enabled - which leads me to believe something is not working as it should?

 

 

I will try and implement the sleep and spin-down functionality - but a complete power down will be preferred if at all possible

Others have reported the same.

 

Set the setting to No, save it, then set it to Yes once more.  That usually works.

 

Joe L.

With respect to your first question:

 

Click Settings

Click Disk Settings

Make sure Auto Start is set to Yes

 

 

This is the strange part - the settings is already enabled - which leads me to believe something is not working as it should?

 

 

I will try and implement the sleep and spin-down functionality - but a complete power down will be preferred if at all possible

 

This is a little bug that has not been found, the status displayed is sometimes not the actual setting. Set it to No <apply> and then Yes <apply>.

Click Settings, Disk Settings, set Auto Start to No

Reboot

Click Settings, Disk Settings, set Auto Start to Yes

Reboot

 

Should fix it.

 

I had the same issue with 5.0b12a