Hello

 

I just upgraded from 5.0 Beta 14 to 5.0-rc9a. All my drives are MBR:Unaligned. Attached is my syslog. Please let me know how to correct this

 

Thanks

syslog.txt

Is the array working? Are you saying that the drive were formatted as aligned previously?

The Array was working fine...until after the upgrade. all disks had/has green lights, when i doubled checked per instructions, they are all unaligned.

Double check: Do you only see the disks marked as MBR-Unalligned but does your array function ?  Or can you not reach your shares anymore?

Your syslog shows no issues. Care to explain what the problem is? Just having unaligned drives by itself isn't an issue and your syslog just shows you booting and refreshing the web interface a bunch of times.

That was also why I asked my question... I think there is not an issue and the OP just got "scared" of the "unalligned" text..

Your syslog shows no issues. Care to explain what the problem is? Just having unaligned drives by itself isn't an issue and your syslog just shows you booting and refreshing the web interface a bunch of times.

 

Haa..you guys are right...I am scared to fire it up and lose data...but what scared me was this;

 

    All previous 5.0-beta and 5.0-rc versions including 5.0-rc8a

 

Prepare the flash: either shutdown your server and plug the flash into your PC or Stop the array and perform the following actions referencing the flash share on your network:

Copy the files bzimage and bzroot from the zip file to the root of your flash device, overwriting the same-named files already there.

Reboot your server. Once boot-up has completed, you should see "Stopped. Configuration valid." array status with all disks assigned correctly.

Click on each disk link on the Main page and examine the Partition format field. If you see "MBR: error", or "MBR: unknown" for any disk, do not Start the array; instead post your finding in the Forum announcement thread for this release.

If everything looks ok, click Start to bring the array on-line.

    Go to Utils/New Permissions and execute that utility to change file ownership and permission settings. This is necessary for proper operation of the 5.0 security model.

 

While posting this...I see that the instructions does not say "Unaligned" but "UnKnown"... :o

 

My bad..thanks guys...I'll fire her up when I get home.

 

MBR: unaligned is not MBR: error

MBR: unaligned is not MBR: unknown

 

You're worrying about something for no reason.

 

 

MBR: unaligned is not MBR: error

MBR: unaligned is not MBR: unknown

 

You're worrying about something for no reason.

 

Yes...I admitted that in my last post.

 

Thanks again!

MBR: unaligned is not MBR: error

MBR: unaligned is not MBR: unknown

 

You're worrying about something for no reason.

Yes that's right.  The warning was in there because the implementation of GPT partitions for large drives was a bit "hairy" because the it has to support:

a) laying down correct partition for >2TB drives

b) aligning partition 1 on 64KB boundary for "advanced format" drives that are <2TB

c) still work with existing "non-advanced format" drives that are <2TB

d) still honor explicit user configuration to align partition 1 on <2TB on either sector 63 (so-called "unaligned") or 64 ("aligned").

e) recognize "factory cleared", ie, "pre-cleared" signature in all these flavors

f) not screw up existing partition structure even if drives are moved around

So I put that warning in there in case I missed something