December 6, 201015 yr Hey Everyone, My USB Flash drive is giving me problems. I had to do a alt+ctrl+del from the console earlier when bittorrent froze on me locking up unraid from unmounting one of the hard drive. Once it restarted it, the flash drive was unable to boot. Made sure the bios was booting from USB, everything was okay. When to check the flash drive on XP, it says flash drive must be formated to be read. I was curious, so I was going to format it, but it says it's a 8mb flash drive instead of 1gig. What do you guys think I should do? I backed up the flash drive about 2 days ago.
December 6, 201015 yr If your backup is good I would format the usb drive and copy the backup to the drive and go from there.
December 6, 201015 yr Author strange. Windows finally reconized it as a 1gig flash, but still had to format though. At the moment am copying back all the files, but notice it is painfully slow, 9.00kb/sec. Is it possible that a flash drive can show signs of failing?
December 7, 201015 yr Author No dice. The USB for some reason keeps malfunctioning. It keeps switching back to 8mbs instead of 1gig. Do you guys know if Tom still does case by case basis and giving a new key as long we ship him the malfunctioning USB drive? Would it hurt if I was to make another flash drive with unraid without the key and run it. I currently have 1 parity and 4 drive. I know it won't register the other two, but would I be able to access them?
December 7, 201015 yr No dice. The USB for some reason keeps malfunctioning. It keeps switching back to 8mbs instead of 1gig. Do you guys know if Tom still does case by case basis and giving a new key as long we ship him the malfunctioning USB drive? Would it hurt if I was to make another flash drive with unraid without the key and run it. I currently have 1 parity and 4 drive. I know it won't register the other two, but would I be able to access them? Send Tom an e-mail. Set up your other flash drive. You'll be able to configure only 2 data drives but you could use either SNAP or unMENU to mount and access the files on the other two. They'll not be parity protected, but you'll be able to get to them until you can get a new license key. You might try running checkdisk/scandisk on your old flash drive. It might be able to be fixed.
December 8, 201015 yr I have a similar problem -- no lockups, but I'm seeing errors in the syslog (attached). Can an expert please advise if these are hard errors or should I move the flash drive to a Windows PC and so a soft repair? Thanks! syslog_8-12-10.zip
December 9, 201015 yr bobby4482, I hope you fixed your problem. Sorry to hijack your thread but it seems undesirable to start another 'my flash has gone bad' thread. Since yesterday I noticed my flash drive is not accessible over smb. I opened the syslog to see that there are a thousand messages like: unRAID kernel: FAT: Directory bread(block 482) failed This seems to point out that either the usb disconnected or that my flash has died. It's been quite some time since i backed up the content of the flash drive. I've not yet rebooted the server, so everything is working how it should. I wanted to know, before rebooting, if there is a way to make a backup of the flash drive by using what is stored in the ramdisk? Just being able to save the share.cfg, my go file and settings would be great.
December 10, 201015 yr Author No prob Orbi, Unfortunately I wasn't able to get that USB Flash to work at all. It interminably works. For example, when on windows machine, the flash drive works correctly at times. Had unraid reinstalled on the flash and when to plug it in, it never was able to boot from it, just froze on the server. Brought it back to be read on windows and it showed it had to be reformatted and was showing as 8mbs. I had to buy another flash, Tom recommended Lexar. Interesting though that I've notice when I changed over the flash drive, streaming HD hasn't all of a sudden stop in it's track and had to catch up. Am thinking the flash was showing signs of dying. Has anybody seens signs of this, ie. transfer rate slowing down over time on flash.
December 10, 201015 yr I have a similar problem -- no lockups, but I'm seeing errors in the syslog (attached). Can an expert please advise if these are hard errors or should I move the flash drive to a Windows PC and so a soft repair? Thanks! Bump!
December 10, 201015 yr doing a scan and repair from a windows PC would not be a bad idea, and it can't really hurt anything.
December 10, 201015 yr doing a scan and repair from a windows PC would not be a bad idea, and it can't really hurt anything. Hmmm... no dice here:
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