I am getting the following issue during the reboots of my unraid server: "USB Device is not read/wite". I have attached my diagnostics here for review.

 

I searched the forum and found posts saying to put the USB drive in a windows machine and run chkdisk on it, but that is failing with an error code stating the "drive is write-protected".

 

I am on a trial key that is expiring today and am not able to add my newly purchased license key I assume to the inability to write this info to the USB drive (Error 1).

 

What are my next steps to resolve this?

bigrig-diagnostics-20190618-1538.zip

19 minutes ago, mihcox said:

I am getting the following issue during the reboots of my unraid server: "USB Device is not read/wite". I have attached my diagnostics here for review.

 

I searched the forum and found posts saying to put the USB drive in a windows machine and run chkdisk on it, but that is failing with an error code stating the "drive is write-protected".

 

I am on a trial key that is expiring today and am not able to add my newly purchased license key I assume to the inability to write this info to the USB drive (Error 1).

 

What are my next steps to resolve this?

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It sounds as I the USB stick may be on the verge of failing as going read-Only is a typical failure mode.    If you decide to replace it go for a USB2 version instead of a USB3 one as they tend to be more reliable.  You do not need anything larger than a 8TB version although a higher capacity version may not cost more.  As it runs from RAM Unraid gets negligible performance benefit from USB3.

 

i also note that you have the Parity Check Tuning plugin installed with both the option to pause/resume if disks overheat set and also debug logging set.    This means that you will get a message in the syslog every 5 minutes as a monitor task runs.    If you are worried about these then turn of the debug logging option.

Edited June 18, 20197 yr by itimpi

Thank you for that, I will go to the store and pick up a small USB 2.0 Drive. As for copying things over to the new flash drive, is there a simple tool for doing that to make it seamless?

1 hour ago, mihcox said:

Thank you for that, I will go to the store and pick up a small USB 2.0 Drive. As for copying things over to the new flash drive, is there a simple tool for doing that to make it seamless?

Do the following:

• Take a screenshot of your current disk assignments as a Trial license will not let you transfer the disk configuration to a new USB disk (you can with a non-Trial version).   
• Use the USB Creator tool to write a new USB stick as if you were starting from scratch.
• Copy across the config folder contents from the old USB to the new USB stick overwriting existing contents of that folder.   Do not copy the license key file or the super.dat file that contains the old assignments.   The config folder contains all the settings and configuration information you have previously set up.
• Apply for a new Trial license linked to the new USB stick as the license file is stick specific.  
• Assign the disks exactly as you had them previously and start the array.   Make sure you do not accidentally assign a data disk as a parity disk as that would destroy its contents.  

UnRAID recognises disks it has previously used and leaves their data intact so you should now be up running exactly as you were on the old USB stick.

 

BTW:  it is a good idea after doing all this to click on the flash device on the Main tab and use the option to make a backup of the Flash contents.     This can then be used in the future if you ever need to create a new usb stick for any reason.   It is a good idea (although not mandatory)  to do this after any major configuration change.

jumping in cuz i have the same issue now with them little usb's which i now understand the recommendation of the kingston metal one for example. 

 

is it ok to use this last final backup created or files copied from a read only usb? i ask because my previous was a month old and i just installed and configured a bunch of dockers this last month. i saw my logs just when the usb was throwing out errors so i did a flash backup before restarting. when i restarted, i got the usb is read-only. im just affraid if this last backup is corrupt. i did another backup after this last reboot and the size is about half (200mb) but on windows it says the usb is using about 1gb in size. unsure why its such a difference.