New Newbie here,

I have read the previous comments and I am stumped as far as how to proceed. I recently upgraded to 6.4.1- rc1- GCC7.3.0.  All my plugins transferred over successfully except for the Preclear plugin that disappeared. I tried reinstalling the Preclear plugin a number of times only to receive notification that the plugin was "Not Supported" as seen in the attachment. Preclear icon does not show in Installed Plugins. It is visible under Tools but does not work. The preclear icon is visible in Unassigned Devices but does not initialize. Is this a bug that will get worked out or maybe I am doing something incorrectly. I followed Spaceinvader One videos step by step. I have precleared five other disks on my array with no difficulty before the OS upgrade. Is there a workaround?

 

As usual, I want to say thanks for the help and direction.

 

preclear error.pdf

 

 

I recently upgraded to 6.4.1- rc1- GCC7.3.0.  All my plugins transferred over successfully except for the preclear plugin that disappeared. I tried reinstalling the Preclear plugin a number of times only to receive notification that the plugin was "Not Supported". Preclear does not show in Installed Plugins. It is visible under Tools but does not work. The preclear icon is visible in Unassigned Devices but does not initialize. Is this a bug that will get worked out or maybe I could not be doing something correctly. I checked I followed Spaceinvader One videos step by step. I have precleared three other disks on the array with no difficulty before the OS upgrade.

 

As usual, I want to say thanks for the help and direction.

preclear error.pdf

I have combined your posts about this into a single thread. Please don't post the same thing in multiple places. It just makes it more difficult for people to coordinate their efforts to help.

The plugin needs an update to install under 6.4.1  Until that happens, it will not install

Hey @Squid - do you know if the preclear plugin developer is active? I was trying to find posts of theirs, seems like it's been a while. 

 

Just curious if you know one way or the other. Thanks.

Hey [mention=10290]Squid[/mention] - do you know if the preclear plugin developer is active? I was trying to find posts of theirs, seems like it's been a while. 
 
Just curious if you know one way or the other. Thanks.

His last post was in November, but I do see him logged in on average about once per week

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I'm getting issues with this as well. The logs show errors that seem to relate to the preclear plugin. I attached he'd a screensjot of logs which may not be ideal but I'm on mobile and it's my only option at the moment.

 

 

 

Which unRaid version?  Preclear is incompatible with 6.4.1 and must be uninstalled.  Preclear itself though has problems with other unRaid versions for certain users.

Here is a reddit that has a link to a working preclear for 6.4.1.

 

That's a kludge to make it work with unRAID 6.4.1 but what Squid said is true and the kludge doesn't fix those problems:

 

On 09/02/2018 at 5:39 PM, Squid said:

Preclear itself though has problems with other unRaid versions for certain users.

 

Where is this install package located, so I can edit it?

 

EDIT:  

 

For future searchers, to fix this problem, do this:

 

Open your Unraid terminal

cd /boot/config/plugins

Delete all of the existing preclear files and plg

Wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dohlin/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/preclear.disk.plg

Reboot

Celebrate

Edited March 2, 20188 yr by anxman

On 3/3/2018 at 1:51 AM, anxman said:

Wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dohlin/unRAID-plugins/master/plugins/preclear.disk.plg

 

Hi, on my 6.4.1, i get a command not found when i run that command. it seems wget is not installed on the system. how do i go about installing wget?

 

I urge everyone considering installing this to read this post by dlandon:

 

 

I urge everyone considering installing this to read this post by dlandon:
 
 

I don't think any of us who are very active on here like@squid@trurl@dlandon@garycase @johnnieblack and myself as well as the other prolific posters, are still using preclear, that should tell everyone something.....

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The one thing I think is missing is some way to make users aware of the need to configure Notifications. Then if they do have a disk problem they will be aware of it.

2 minutes ago, trurl said:

make users aware of the need to configure Notifications

It is a stock test in FCP to see if Notifications are configured

Just now, Squid said:

It is a stock test in FCP to see if Notifications are configured

Then we need to make the users aware of the need to install FCP

1 hour ago, trurl said:

Then we need to make the users aware of the need to install FCP

 

How about extremely strong suggestions from CA?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah yes, but what will suggest they install CA?  

3 minutes ago, BRiT said:

 

How about extremely strong suggestions from CA?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ah yes, but what will suggest they install CA?  

I think CA is targeted to be included in the core of unRAID so this would not be an issue.

People will still want a stress test built into unraid besides the parity check and smart. They want to test the disk BEFORE array inclusion, not after, but still want to do it all from the unraid GUI.

 

How hard would it be to add a badblocks routine to UD?

 

Another alternative would be to possibly ask @jbartlett to include an option for thorough testing in his diskspeed script, since feature creep is already a thing there as well.

55 minutes ago, jonathanm said:

How hard would it be to add a badblocks routine to UD?

Not going to happen.  Why not post a feature request and ask LT to add the functionality if it's that important.

7 hours ago, trurl said:

The one thing I think is missing is some way to make users aware of the need to configure Notifications. Then if they do have a disk problem they will be aware of it.

 

Would you just need to turn on Array status notification: to get notifications if a drive is showing signs of failing?

5 hours ago, jonathanm said:

How hard would it be to add a badblocks routine to UD?

 

Another alternative would be to possibly ask @jbartlett to include an option for thorough testing in his diskspeed script, since feature creep is already a thing there as well.

 

It's on the far off To-Do list along with a heat map of each platter.

"make users aware of the need to configure Notifications"

 

This can also be achieved by introducing an installation wizard, guiding the user through all basic steps to start using unRAID.

And what will tell the user to install the install wizard?

 

 

Or would that be base os?