February 7, 201016 yr Hello all, first post and new user here. Just got my new USB stick in the mail and got everything up and running with no problems as far as I know on the hardware side. Hardware is as follows: Norco 4020 case Asus P5Q Pro Mobo 2x SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 - 8 One 2TB Hitachi Parity 5 - 1TB Western Digital Green data drives I plug everything in and boot up with no problems, logon to the tower interface and assign the drives, I then went to the main page and hit format unformatted drives. Well it's been sitting there for almost 24 hours now and the only thing I see so far is that there are ~2,700,000 reads to the 1-Tb drives and ~5,400,000 writes to the parity drive with all green lights flashing next to the drives. So how long does it take to format the drives, all the 1-TB drives still show as unformatted...
February 7, 201016 yr Hello all, first post and new user here. Just got my new USB stick in the mail and got everything up and running with no problems as far as I know on the hardware side. Hardware is as follows: Norco 4020 case Asus P5Q Pro Mobo 2x SuperMicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 - 8 One 2TB Hitachi Parity 5 - 1TB Western Digital Green data drives I plug everything in and boot up with no problems, logon to the tower interface and assign the drives, I then went to the main page and hit format unformatted drives. Well it's been sitting there for almost 24 hours now and the only thing I see so far is that there are ~2,700,000 reads to the 1-Tb drives and ~5,400,000 writes to the parity drive with all green lights flashing next to the drives. So how long does it take to format the drives, all the 1-TB drives still show as unformatted... Formatting a drive takes less than a minute. Clearing a drive can take many hours. When initially adding a new drive to a parity protected array, the disks are cleared before being presented to you for formatting. Without seeing a syslog, there is no way to know what is happening on your system. Instructions on how to grab a syslog are in the wiki under troubleshooting. Joe L.
February 7, 201016 yr http://pastebin.com/ It is specifically for pasting system logs and debugging logs. Joe L.
February 8, 201016 yr Author Checked again this morning and it appears it's just sitting there doing nothing now, should I pull the plug and reboot? I have all drives currently connected to the Micro SATA PCI card, should I just start it up with a few drives and then add more and do them in parts?
February 8, 201016 yr Checked again this morning and it appears it's just sitting there doing nothing now, should I pull the plug and reboot? I have all drives currently connected to the Micro SATA PCI card, should I just start it up with a few drives and then add more and do them in parts? You did good... The syslog shows your server formatted the drives: Feb 6 08:46:32 Tower emhttp: shcmd (47): mkreiserfs -q /dev/md1 >/dev/null 2>&1 Feb 6 08:46:32 Tower emhttp: shcmd (47): mkreiserfs -q /dev/md2 >/dev/null 2>&1 Feb 6 08:46:33 Tower emhttp: shcmd (47): mkreiserfs -q /dev/md3 >/dev/null 2>&1 Feb 6 08:46:33 Tower emhttp: shcmd (47): mkreiserfs -q /dev/md5 >/dev/null 2>&1 Feb 6 08:46:33 Tower emhttp: shcmd (47): mkreiserfs -q /dev/md4 >/dev/null 2>&1 The smaller drives spun down about an hour after they were complete in the parity generating process Feb 7 00:37:23 Tower kernel: mdcmd (5649): spindown 1 Feb 7 00:37:23 Tower kernel: mdcmd (5650): spindown 2 Feb 7 00:37:24 Tower kernel: mdcmd (5651): spindown 3 Feb 7 00:37:25 Tower kernel: mdcmd (5652): spindown 4 Feb 7 00:37:25 Tower kernel: mdcmd (5653): spindown 5 Then, the only disk spinning with parity being written to its second half was the 2TB parity drive. This only took 2 1/2 hours more. Feb 7 03:14:44 Tower kernel: md: sync done. time=66431sec rate=29406K/sec Feb 7 03:14:44 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread sync completion status: 0 And the parity drive spun down an hour later. Feb 7 04:14:54 Tower kernel: mdcmd (6966): spindown 0 Then, it looks like it finished the parity check at about 3 AM (took 18 3/4 hours at nearly 30MB/s.) Feb 7 03:14:44 Tower kernel: md: sync done. time=66431sec rate=29406K/sec Feb 7 03:14:44 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread sync completion status: 0 If you just pull the plug you'll be faced with another parity calc, as it will not have shut down cleanly. Your disks are probably just fine, formatted, and ready. From the command line you can kill and re-start the management interface, connect again with the browser, and then stop the array, re-start it to get going. To kill the management interface process if it seems to be hung: killall emhttp To re-start it emhttp & Once re-started you should be able to get to it from your web-browser once more. Nothing looked really odd in your syslog other than it seems your network connection is at 100Mb/s, not 1000Mb/s. The "pastebin" worked well. Let me know if you cannot get the management interface working on the browser. Your IP address is 192.168.1.103 so you should be able to get to the server by typing http://192.168.1.103 Joe L.
February 8, 201016 yr Author Interesting, I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight. Glad to hear it did what I hoped it was doing, just didn't update the main page I guess. Didn't even notice the network connection speed, do you think that is something with the mobo or would it just be because I have it connected to a 100mb/s Linksys router?
February 8, 201016 yr Interesting, I'll give it a shot when I get home tonight. Glad to hear it did what I hoped it was doing, just didn't update the main page I guess. Didn't even notice the network connection speed, do you think that is something with the mobo or would it just be because I have it connected to a 100mb/s Linksys router? The two ends of a connection negotiate a speed usable by both. If you only have it connected to a 100Mb/s router, that's all you'll see. Many of us use an inexpensive 1000Mb/s switch AND a older 100Mb/s router. I have one connection from my GB switch to the older 100Mb/s wireless router. (It in turn connects to my cable modem) Older, slower 100Mb/s PCs and media players connect to the old router. Newer PCs, the unRAID server, and gigabit devices all connect to ports on the gigabit switch. They can take advantage of the increased speed. Joe L.
February 8, 201016 yr Author Good point, now that I have a popcorn and another NAS box probably be worth my while to get a gigabit switch to help with throughput.
February 8, 201016 yr Author Well I did all the commands as you mentioned and got back to the main page, but all of the 1TB drives still state that they are unformatted? So since it doesn't register a size, do I need to go back in and hit the format button again?
February 8, 201016 yr Well I did all the commands as you mentioned and got back to the main page, but all of the 1TB drives still state that they are unformatted? So since it doesn't register a size, do I need to go back in and hit the format button again? No, they were formatted already... They are just not mounted. Just use the button on the management web-page to stop the array(if started) and then reboot, I think they'll show up then.
February 8, 201016 yr Author I stopped the array and rebooted after rebooting and showing the array as started the 1TB drives are still showing as unformatted. I tried this a couple more times just to be sure and it still shows them as unformatted.
February 8, 201016 yr Author Finally, I went ahead and hit format again after another reboot, and now all drives are showing as normal. Hopefully I am good to go now, I greatly appreciate your feedback.
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