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I'm not sure to be honest Benson.

Hi guys, This extra info may help: In the unraid disk settings, I set the default spin down delay to 15mins and in the s3.sh script, I set the timeout and count to 1. When I reboot the server, and manually spin down the drives, it goes to sleep after 1min. When I reboot the server, and wait 15mins for the drives to spin down, it goes to sleep 1min later. However, when I wake the server from sleep, it won't go back to sleep, no matter how long I wait even though all drives are spun down. Also, my go script looks like this: #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & ethtool -s eth0 wol g # Execute s3.sh sleep script fromdos < /boot/custom/bin/s3.sh | at now + 1 minute Any ideas?

Hi Squid, As far as I can tell they are. There are no devices that normally connect to it switched on. The only thing I can think of is my tplink c3200 router that I leave on 24/7. Can you think of any troubleshooting ideas I can try?

Hi Guys, I've got my unraid server setup to sleep when inactive and wake up when I ping it. I've been using it like this for a while and it all works but... It sometimes doesn't go to sleep despite every other device in the house that connects to it being turned off. It does this about 30% of the time even when there is no parity check going on. Additionally, it very occasionally goes to sleep when I'm in the middle of using it. I'm not sure why this is but I'd love to have it go to sleep consistently when it's not doing anything. The s3.sh script I've got saved in custom/bin is below and is something I've copied from google searches. Any help would be greatly appreciated #!/bin/bash drives="/dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg" timeout=10 count=10 while [ 1 ] do hdparm -C $drives | grep -q active if [ $? -eq 1 ] then count=$[$count-1] else count=$timeout fi if [ $count -le 0 ] then # Do pre-sleep activities sleep 5 # Go to sleep echo -n mem > /sys/power/state # Do post-sleep activities # Force NIC into gigabit mode # (might be needed forgets about gigabit when it wakes up) ethtool -s eth0 speed 1000 # Force a DHCP renewal (shouldn't be used for static-ip boxes) /sbin/dhcpcd -n sleep 5 count=$timeout fi # Wait a minute echo COUNT $count sleep 60 done

Hi guys, Basically, I moved data off disk 2 and removed it from the array. Unraid is now booting in about 38 seconds which is much better thanks so disk 2 was definitely the offender. In regards to some of the bios suggestions, I tried changing the delay for HDD to 15 secs and it didn’t really change much. HDD SMART capability is already enabled Backup BIOS image to HDD was already disabled because I heard about this issue a few years back. In regards to AHCI mode, I already had "on chip sata mode” set to “enhanced" so I assume they are in AHCI mode rather than IDE? Thanks for the help Regards, Graham

Thanks electron, that is some great advice I'm going to get onto these things and report back.

Thanks Frank, I am running quite old hardware now but it never used to boot this slow. I'm just running a parity check but when that finishes, I'll look into switching all my hard drives to AHCI mode. Once I've resolved this 5mins fault, I'll then start looking into how I can speed up my boot time even more because even at it's best, it still takes a good minute to be ready. I'd like it to be more like 20 to 30 seconds if this is possible. If anyone else notices anything that may be unnecessarily slowing me down, I'd appreciate any additional advice.

Hi Guys, Any ideas on why my unraid server is taking 5 minutes to boot.?Advice would be greatly appreciated

Thanks electron, I did as you said and hooked up a monitor. It started up detecting IDE drives and spent about 60secs doing this. Once it got past post, it did about 3 plus minutes of scrolling text with lots of failed messages. In total it was 5mins until it got to the username password screen. Attached is a video of the whole thing. It doesn't seem to play on the webpage but if you download the file, it should run fine. It's a 20MB mp4. I can make it whatever file format works best if you like. 5min boot.mp4

Thanks both, any ideas on how I can speed it up?

I kept closing explorer, reopening and entering the server's name every 20 seconds.

Hi Squid, yes I got it via the WebUI. I set a timer from the point at which I pressed the power button on the server to the point at which the shares were accessible in windows 7. This came out at 5mins.

Hi all, For some reason, my server’s boot times are currently 5 mins long. I can see that disk 2 has a reallocated sector count in “pre-fail”. However, based on the RAW Value, this has only happened once and isn’t increasing. I’m not sure that this would cause a 5min boot anyway. I’ve attached a zip file of the diagnostic data. Can anyone help me figure out why my boot times are so long please. Thank you in advance for any help. tower-diagnostics-20190130-1033.zip

Hi aptalca, Thanks for your help. I noticed the bit about setting user id and group id to 0 but couldn't find out how to do this. I've just realized however, that there is an advanced switch in the edit container page section doh! I knew it was something really obvious that I was missing. Thanks for helping me see this. At least I'll know for other dockers now too. Graham

Hi, I've installed aptalca's dolphin docker and really like the look of it. However, I can't get it to do anything other than browse directories. It's probably really obvious to most of you here but I just can't figure out how to make it do things like moving files and deleting. I think it's something to do with permissions and that by default it's set up as "nobody". I've looked through all the settings and can't find a way to change anything. I've searched google and not been able to find anything. I've even searched the forums. This makes me think it's so obvious and I'm just not getting it. I'd really appreciate it if someone could please help me understand what is going on and how to fix it in layman's terms. Thanks, Graham

Hi CHBMB, Thanks for this. I am still learning so don’t totally understand but if I open a port on my router for it, does that mean that a hacker could get into my computer through this port and are there any security precautions I should take if I do this? In regards to a dynamic dns. I’ve heard people mention this a lot from reading around the forums. Am I right in saying it is a way to consistently gain access to your home network by using a kind of web address? If so, what is the best method to do dynamic dns on unraid? And are there any security precautions I should take? Also, is setting up a VPN another way to do this? If so, can it be done on unraid directly if your router doesn't have VPN? Thanks for your advice. Graham

Really enjoying this transmission docker and it's one of the first I've got working along with Dolphin so thanks for the effort. Now it's running, I'd like to be able to access it when I'm away from home. What would be the best way to do this? I've tried installing remote transmission on my android phone but can't seem to get it to work. So far, I've tried entering ifconfig at the terminal to get the ip address for outside my network (four sets of numbers separated by dots) and then tried to enter this into the host section in the remote transmission app. I also put the default port in but it doesn't work. Thanks in advance for any help with this Graham

Ahh right, thanks for the DNS answer. I'll install the CA now. Cheers, Graham

Thanks saarg and Squid. I tried installing the plugin but that informed me there was a dowload failure. I then tried putting the static DNS addresses in as recommended by Squid and everything seems to work now and I can select templates in the add container area. I already had a static ip. Do you know why I needed a static DNS address to make this all work? Thanks again both for your help. Graham

Hi guys, really want to set up some dockers but am completely stuck one one step in the process. I've just updated to v6 of unraid and really like the look of it. I've enabled the docker,set the default image size to 10GB and set the path of the image to /mnt/disk5/docker.img I then goto the Docker tab where the standard repository is listed https://github.com/limetech/docker-templates However, when I goto add container and click the select a template drop down, the only options are [user defined templates] and [Default templates]. However, neither of these are selectable and there are no other templates listed below these headings. I have tried adding other repositories ie https://github.com/MediaBrowser/Emby.Build/tree/master/unraid-templates/emby and https://github.com/aptalca/docker-templates but this makes no difference. I have also tried changing the path of the docker image to /boot/docker/docker.img so that it would be on the flash drive but again, I still have no templates to select. I've searched everywhere to try and find out what's going on but can't find anything. If someone could help me with this, I'd be very appreciative. Graham PS: I've attached a syslog of me booting up if that helps. syslog.txt

Hi Garycase, I think you may be right. I pulled both cables out and plugged them back in and suddenly I'm getting 95MB/second speeds. I will look to replace the cables now. Thanks for your help. Graham

Hi, this is the syslog for today. The last thing I did before obtaining the syslog was transfer a file from the server to one of my computers at the slow speed of 11MB/second . 03-03-2014_syslog.txt

Weird thing but the speed is slow again transferring from the server to another computer on the network. Yesterday it ran at 98MB/second and today it's back down to 11MB/second. The syslog isn't showing anything regarding the file transfer as this is the last thing in the log and the last entry happened before I transferred the file: Mar 3 18:48:55 Tower kernel: mdcmd (144): spindown 4 Mar 3 18:54:06 Tower kernel: mdcmd (145): spindown 1 Mar 3 19:18:16 Tower kernel: mdcmd (146): spindown 3 Any ideas on why I'm getting an inconsistent transfer speeds? PS: I understand that writing to the unraid server will be slower but I'm these transfers are from the server.

Thanks everyone for your time but I just tried to transfer a file to get the syslog for jonathanm and it was transfering at 98MB/second! I'm really sorry to waste your time but the high transfer speed seems to be working now between all my computers!? I'm not quite sure why it's working now but I wanted to print a syslog anyway. However, it didn't show any activity sorry. Again thanks for trying but it all seems to be working now. Graham

Yea, I have a few computers in my house. The 83MB/second transfers are being done between two Windows 7 computers on the network and I am transferring 1 4.5Gb file through windows explorer.