Hello! I seem to be having a problem clearing new disks. I have added 2 new disks and ran the preclear script on both. When I query the disk with the -l to see if they are cleared already, it says they are cleared. When I stop the array and try to add the disks, it wants to clear them again.

 

So I bit the bullet one day and ran the clear from the webgui. Took over 24 hours and then it said it still was not cleared. It stopped the array after the clear was done and then asked for it to be cleared again.

 

So I tried seeing if adding them as a cache drive works and that does work without issue. After clearing, the cache wants to format and then the array starts no problem. It seems it won't allow me to only add drives to the main array. I am running 5.0.6.

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Great community unRaid has and never had any issue besides this

Are you using the latest preclear script?

 

The -l option is for seeing which disks are available for preclear. It just lists the disks that are not already assigned.

 

The -t option is for seeing if a disk has the preclear signature; i.e., has already been precleared.

 

unRAID will never clear the cache disk since it does not need to be zeroed in order to match parity. Preclear is still a good test though.

 

 

The symptoms suggest that you are not using the latest pre-clear script.  There was a bug in an earlier release where the pre-clear signature was not being written correctly on 64-bit systems and therefore unRAID was not recognising the disk as pre-cleared.

I downloaded and am using 1.15 as I was using 1.14 not long ago. And I do apologize, I meant to say I used -t

 

I am also running the 32-bit version as not upgrading to 6 just yet.

 

Thanks for the ideas though!

Anyone have any ideas for what to do?  :'(

Try posting your issue here:

 

    http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4068.0

 

The author of the preclear script monitors that thread