Recently upgraded to 6 - several issues

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Recently upgraded from 4.7 to 6, new flash drive, reformatted drives etc, a clean start, however I'm experiencing several issues.

 

1)  3 times I have rebooted the server, first stopping the array then hitting the 'Reboot' button, and 3 times it has started a parity check, it doesn't do it every time though, I then have to wait for parity to check, it says it 'detected an unscheduled', or words like that - why is it doing this?

 

2)  I was adding a share, I had already created 3 or 4 with no issue, I then went to add another one, I completed the first few 'pages', I entered a share comment, hit 'Apply' it restarts smb after 30 seconds or so, page reloads or whatever, but my settings have not stuck, I also try setting the share security level to private, same thing, basically anything I set on there is not sticking, the previous shares configured just fine - I'm using Chrome BTW, maybe that is the issue? After rebooting I can set the share. I have a feeling this may have something to do with copy my share/*.cfg files over. Or maybe it is me, I thought you could click on a share name, under Shares and then edit, maybe you can't do that? Some times I just need to edit and existing share.

 

3) It loses communication with the UPS, I've tried unplugging/plugging the USB cord, no difference, but if I reboot it sometimes can communicate,

 

I have no data stored on there at the moment.

 

I think my main issue is number 1, that is the one that concerns me, the other 2 are possibly down to me or minor glitches.

 

The attached log is after I rebooted after what should have been a clean shutdown.

rutland-syslog-20150726-1356.zip

[dgaschk]

Run checkdisk on the flash in a Mac or PC

[fishface]

I'll try that.  One thing I've noticed, the flash drive seems very slow, it takes a good few minutes to boot unRAID, not sure if this is normal or not - it's a brand new SanDisk Ultra Fit™ CZ43 16GB USB 3.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive, looks like the one LT supply. My old unRAID 4.7 was equally as slow, I ran a chkdsk on that and it made no difference.

 

I wondering if the motherboard is the issue, I formatted (FAT32) the new flash drive on my laptop and it was pretty quick, seemed normal.

 

I was wondering that if the flashdrive was very slow to write, that might be causing the issue.

 

[limetech]

I'll try that.  One thing I've noticed, the flash drive seems very slow, it takes a good few minutes to boot unRAID, not sure if this is normal or not - it's a brand new SanDisk Ultra Fit™ CZ43 16GB USB 3.0 Low-Profile Flash Drive, looks like the one LT supply. My old unRAID 4.7 was equally as slow, I ran a chkdsk on that and it made no difference.

 

I wondering if the motherboard is the issue, I formatted (FAT32) the new flash drive on my laptop and it was pretty quick, seemed normal.

 

I was wondering that if the flashdrive was very slow to write, that might be causing the issue.

 

Check your m/b bios; could be you somehow have USB set to USB1.1 which would explain very slow read time from flash.

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Ran chkdsk and it found no errors.

 

So I then take a look in the BIOS as per LT suggestion, and there is a 'Legacy USB Support' mode, I tried disabling it, wouldn't boot at all, so I re-enable it and then I notice another option, USB Speed full, hi-speed or auto, I set it to full and now it boots super quick, and also the UPS comms seem to be consistently.

 

Ok, I cleanly shut it down twice and on the last reboot it says 'Stopped. Unclean shutdown detected.', I ran the dskchk before it did this.

 

Seeing as I have no data stored on here yet, will I do any harm in cancelling the parity check?

 

I've attached boot-up screenshot, I wonder if the motherboard is on its way out.

[uldise]

Ran chkdsk and it found no errors.

 

So I then take a look in the BIOS as per LT suggestion, and there is a 'Legacy USB Support' mode, I tried disabling it, wouldn't boot at all, so I re-enable it and then I notice another option, USB Speed full, hi-speed or auto, I set it to full and now it boots super quick, and also the UPS comms seem to be consistently.

 

Ok, I cleanly shut it down twice and on the last reboot it says 'Stopped. Unclean shutdown detected.', I ran the dskchk before it did this.

 

Seeing as I have no data stored on here yet, will I do any harm in cancelling the parity check?

 

I've attached boot-up screenshot, I wonder if the motherboard is on its way out.

 

Error -110 usually means too much power on USB stick - USB 2.0 stick on USB3 slot or similar..

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Yeah, a bit of Googling and it does point to USB power issues.

 

I've given up and just bought a new motherboard, ASUS Micro ATX DDR3 2000 AMD AM3+ Motherboard M5A78L-M/USB3 ,  RAM and CPU, just low end stuff.