May 28, 20206 yr Hello guys i recently found out about unraid and i am testing it out. i have been preclearing for 1 - 2 weeks now. and 3 drives keep going into a loop. they reach 90% and they restart to 0%. They are Segate drives ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z. All Western Digital drives do complete preclear successfully. using an LSI 9211-8i in IT mode. Could anyone assist me in successfully preclearing this drives? Im planning to buy the pro license tomorrow or in 2 weeks. i will attach this text as well as the other 2. May 27 02:17:16 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Command: /usr/local/emhttp/plugins/preclear.disk/script/preclear_disk.sh --cycles 1 --skip-preread --no-prompt /dev/sdb May 27 02:17:16 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Preclear Disk Version: 1.0.16 May 27 02:17:17 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: S.M.A.R.T. info type: default May 27 02:17:17 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: S.M.A.R.T. attrs type: default May 27 02:17:17 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Disk size: 8001563222016 May 27 02:17:17 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Disk blocks: 1953506646 May 27 02:17:17 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Blocks (512 bytes): 15628053168 May 27 02:17:17 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Block size: 4096 May 27 02:17:17 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Start sector: 0 May 27 02:17:21 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: emptying the MBR. May 27 02:17:22 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=2097152 seek=2097152 count=8001561124864 conv=notrunc iflag=count_bytes,nocache,fullblock oflag=seek_bytes May 27 02:17:22 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd pid [20395] May 27 03:37:53 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 10% zeroed @ 164 MB/s May 27 05:00:57 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 20% zeroed @ 159 MB/s May 27 06:25:10 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 30% zeroed @ 157 MB/s May 27 06:50:22 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Pause (smartctl run time: 16s) May 27 06:50:22 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Paused May 27 06:50:48 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Resumed May 27 07:53:39 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 40% zeroed @ 153 MB/s May 27 09:24:49 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 50% zeroed @ 170 MB/s May 27 10:10:34 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Pause (smartctl run time: 20s) May 27 10:10:34 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Paused May 27 10:10:47 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Resumed May 27 11:02:22 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 60% zeroed @ 127 MB/s May 27 12:47:01 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 70% zeroed @ 113 MB/s May 27 14:41:44 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 80% zeroed @ 112 MB/s May 27 16:19:31 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Pause (smartctl run time: 17s) May 27 16:19:31 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Paused May 27 16:19:44 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Resumed May 27 16:51:30 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 90% zeroed @ 119 MB/s May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3812313+0 records out May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 7994999832576 bytes (8.0 TB, 7.3 TiB) copied, 61539.8 s, 130 MB/s May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3812816+0 records in May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3812816+0 records out May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 7996054700032 bytes (8.0 TB, 7.3 TiB) copied, 61552.7 s, 130 MB/s May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3813320+0 records in May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3813320+0 records out May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 7997111664640 bytes (8.0 TB, 7.3 TiB) copied, 61565.7 s, 130 MB/s May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3813790+0 records in May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3813790+0 records out May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 7998097326080 bytes (8.0 TB, 7.3 TiB) copied, 61578.6 s, 130 MB/s May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3814263+0 records in May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3814263+0 records out May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 7999089278976 bytes (8.0 TB, 7.3 TiB) copied, 61591.5 s, 130 MB/s May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3814715+0 records in May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3814715+0 records out May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 8000037191680 bytes (8.0 TB, 7.3 TiB) copied, 61604.5 s, 130 MB/s May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3815213+0 records in May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 3815213+0 records out May 27 19:27:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd output: 8001081573376 bytes (8.0 TB, 7.3 TiB) copied, 61617.3 s, 130 MB/s May 27 19:27:04 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: dd process hung at 8001083670528, killing.... May 27 19:27:04 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Continuing disk write on byte 8001081573376 May 27 19:27:04 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=2097152 seek=8001081573376 count=481648640 conv=notrunc iflag=count_bytes,nocache,fullblock oflag=seek_bytes May 27 19:27:04 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd pid [14715] May 27 19:29:51 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: dd process hung at 0, killing.... May 27 19:29:51 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: emptying the MBR. May 27 19:41:06 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=2097152 seek=2097152 count=8001561124864 conv=notrunc iflag=count_bytes,nocache,fullblock oflag=seek_bytes May 27 19:41:06 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: dd pid [14614] May 27 20:56:31 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 10% zeroed @ 175 MB/s May 27 22:16:16 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 20% zeroed @ 167 MB/s May 27 23:38:53 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 30% zeroed @ 155 MB/s May 28 01:06:03 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 40% zeroed @ 150 MB/s May 28 01:54:47 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Pause (smartctl run time: 19s) May 28 01:54:47 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Paused May 28 01:54:59 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Resumed May 28 02:39:16 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 50% zeroed @ 140 MB/s May 28 04:17:39 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 60% zeroed @ 129 MB/s May 28 06:02:38 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 70% zeroed @ 120 MB/s May 28 07:56:58 preclear_disk_Z840RN40_16606: Zeroing: progress - 80% zeroed @ 113 MB/s
May 30, 20206 yr I have that exact model of drive (ST8000AS0002-1NA17Z) and am preclearing as we speak. My drive seems to exhibits similar behavior to yours. https://pastebin.com/VLMeQ5mB
May 31, 20206 yr Author I don't know what happened. I just let it run, after 3 loops it went through, about 50 hours each.
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