January 3, 201511 yr I've just precleared a WD 6TB using the script and it's giving me an 'HPA?' entry against the drive when viewed via unmenu. A bit out of the loop here but is this anything to get concerned about? Drive has been allocated as parity for the array and has been precleared 3 cycles and parity checked against existing data drives which are still at 4TB. Am i likely to see any problems as i migrate drives to 6TB if there actually IS an hpa present or is this a known issue? Unmenu is old and doesn't recognize the new larger drives from what everyone with a new larger drive has experienced. It shouldn't be a problem.
January 3, 201511 yr I've just precleared a WD 6TB using the script and it's giving me an 'HPA?' entry against the drive when viewed via unmenu. A bit out of the loop here but is this anything to get concerned about? Drive has been allocated as parity for the array and has been precleared 3 cycles and parity checked against existing data drives which are still at 4TB. Am i likely to see any problems as i migrate drives to 6TB if there actually IS an hpa present or is this a known issue? Unmenu is old and doesn't recognize the new larger drives from what everyone with a new larger drive has experienced. It shouldn't be a problem. Good to hear ... thanks!
January 20, 201511 yr I've just run a (old/slow) preclear on one 2TB drive (I can check when I get home but it took about 25 hours). I have to format it and copy data off an identical drive from my old server at which point I'll be pre-clearing and installing the second drive in my new unRAID server. I'd love to do a comparison of the two preclears! Then I also have to run a triple preclear on a new HTGS Nas 4TB drive when it arrives from Newegg (to be my parity drive) so I'd love to get those 3 runs done faster as well. I'm a complete neophyte at unRAID, so I'd appreciate some clear instructions (a "Faster preclear for dummies"). Running V6-64bit. Thanks!
January 20, 201511 yr Author Suggest you use the supported preclear if you've never done it before. After you understand the process, look at the first post in this thread. Download the zip file. There is a readme file inside that provides details.
January 20, 201511 yr Well as I said, I've already run one (though I think that hardly qualifies me as an expert). I guess I'll have a look at the readme when I get home and see how it differs.
January 24, 201511 yr hey fellow unRaiders... so i've successfully precleared 4 drives last week but my 5th didnt make it just errored out.. it was almost done, over 50% on the 3rd cycle. i'm not savvy enough to know what the log is saying. any help will be appreciated. ========================================================================1.15b == invoked as: ./preclear_bjp.sh -r 65536 -w 65536 -b 2000 -f -A -c 3 /dev/sdf == == Disk /dev/sdf has NOT been successfully precleared == Postread detected un-expected non-zero bytes on disk== == Ran 3 cycles == == Using :Read block size = 65536 Bytes == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 7:10:34 (96 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 6:38:47 (104 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 0:33:14 (1253 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 7:13:00 == == Total Elapsed Time 28:47:37 == == ============================================================================ No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. SMART overall-health status = ============================================================================
January 24, 201511 yr looked and saw i didnt sorry about that dont know how i missed it.. it worked fine with the last 4 drives.. guess i'll start it over.. thx for the tip/help..
January 25, 201511 yr ok not sure what happened this time.. it didnt create a log file in the preclear_reports folder here's what i copied from the putty screen ================================================================== 1.15b = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdf = cycle 2 of 3, partition start on sector 1 = = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared. DONE = Elapsed Time: 22:48:29 ========================================================================1.15b == == SORRY: Disk /dev/sdf MBR could NOT be precleared == == out4= 00000 == out5= 00000 ============================================================================ dd: opening `/dev/sdf': No such device or address 0000000 root@FatJoe:/boot# and attached is whats on the unMenu screen is it just a bad disk or is something else wrong? thx.
January 25, 201511 yr should i add it to the array? or put it into another slot and try to preclear again?
January 25, 201511 yr Author You can test it for a preclear signature. Any idea why it dropped suddenly at the end? Timing is too coincidental. Might indicate a problem with the drive. Not sure.
January 26, 201511 yr i'm not sure.. one weird thing is that its identifier device ID swapped with another drive one that's been running since last week and has data on it.. i'm copying some data to it right now to see if it may error out? also unfortunately i added it to the array before i saw your msg about checking the preclear sig because unmenu "MyMain" indicated it was ready to be added. that array formatted it and in a few minutes i was added data to it..
January 26, 201511 yr Author Suggest you capture a syslog and start a new thread. Your issues may have started while doing a preclear, but it seems some funky things are happening on your server that are not due to any issue with the preclear script.
April 10, 201511 yr dumb question, if I put preclear into /boot/preclear as opposed to just /boot, does it still work the same? I ask because I see this: = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared. DONE = Post-Read in progress: 99% complete. ( 5,000,839,372,800 of 5,000,981,078,016 bytes read ) Disk Temperature: 40C, Elapsed Time: 22:26:14 ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1186: post_read_err: command not found ================================================================== 1.15b = unRAID server Pre-Clear disk /dev/sdb = cycle 1 of 1, partition start on sector 1 = Disk Pre-Clear-Read completed DONE = Step 1 of 10 - Copying zeros to first 2048k bytes DONE = Step 2 of 10 - Copying zeros to remainder of disk to clear it DONE = Step 3 of 10 - Disk is now cleared from MBR onward. DONE = Step 4 of 10 - Clearing MBR bytes for partition 2,3 & 4 DONE = Step 5 of 10 - Clearing MBR code area DONE = Step 6 of 10 - Setting MBR signature bytes DONE = Step 7 of 10 - Setting partition 1 to precleared state DONE = Step 8 of 10 - Notifying kernel we changed the partitioning DONE = Step 9 of 10 - Creating the /dev/disk/by* entries DONE = Step 10 of 10 - Verifying if the MBR is cleared. DONE = Disk Post-Clear-Read completed DONE Disk Temperature: 40C, Elapsed Time: 22:26:15 ========================================================================1.15b == TOSHIBAMD04ACA500 Y4M5K0PYFS9A == Disk /dev/sdb has NOT been precleared successfully == ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ./preclear_bjp.sh: line 1182: /boot/readvz: No such file or directory ============================================================================ No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 1. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. I mean the message is fairly clear that it failed, but the question is, did it? It is a 5TB drive and it completed in 24hours, so it did seem fast, but before moving the files to /boot and starting again, I thought it is worth asking. thanks
April 10, 201511 yr Author No, everything in boot/preclear, force of habit Would be very easy to edit the script to change the directory. But otherwise you need to follow the directions.
April 10, 201511 yr So run it again with the right directories? Without that I assume preclear didn't really do its job?
April 13, 201511 yr Answered my own question, put files where specified and now running at the pace expected
May 25, 201511 yr Yes, I was doing it like I do normal preclear, but that is not what the directions say. When I did as told, it worked as expected.
July 11, 201510 yr Thank you so much for sharing this. Just bought two 5TB drives, unfortunately didn't see this post until first one started the preclear. here are the stat differences. Saves me almost 40 hours on 3 preclear cycles! Old Preclear == Ran 3 cycles == == Using :Read block size = 1000448 Bytes == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 13:05:13 (106 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 9:10:29 (151 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 20:36:10 (67 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 29:47:40 == == Total Elapsed Time 103:27:26 Faster Preclear == Ran 3 cycles == == Using :Read block size = 1000448 Bytes == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 10:20:50 (134 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 8:10:20 (169 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 10:26:13 (133 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 18:37:42 == == Total Elapsed Time 66:16:13
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