Preclear plugin

[chuck23322]

22 minutes ago, gfjardim said:

@chuck23322, just committed an update. Please let me know if your problem is solved.

 

Looks good.   In the past, the errors immediately began (whether or not I actually used the plugin).   

 

I'm assuming it was something related to my old motherboard having a floppy-chip and returning a null serial (at least that''s what I gathered from the above)

 

I checked my NewEgg order history -- that MoBo dates back to a 2010 order when I first built a WHS server -- but quickly converted it to an Unraid server with 250 & 500mb drives -- back then, on 4.x unraid  

 

Highly doubt any MoBo of recent still has a floppy controller.

 

Anyway, huge thanks.   Sincerely appreciate having a GUI front-end to preclear...

[Oakley707]

On 9/7/2017 at 2:51 PM, Oakley707 said:

I'm sorry, I'm new to this whole scene.  Just added a used 2TB drive to my array for more storage and this is the first drive I've used pre-clear on.  Would any of you mind taking a look at the logs to confirm I'm good to go?  Everything came back as passed, but wanted to be sure.  If you need anything else, let me know.

 

Thank you in advance.

preclear_report_W340A8TT_2017.09.07_08.50.19.txt

ST2000DM001-1CH164_W340A8TT-20170907-1449.txt

Bump?

[JorgeB]

1 minute ago, Oakley707 said:

Bump?

 

Disk has seen better days, if you determined to use it at least run it through a couple more preclear cycles.

[chuck23322]

7 minutes ago, Oakley707 said:

Bump?

 

You probably want the "preclear.sh results" thread.

 

https://forums.lime-technology.com/topic/3930-preclearsh-results-questions-about-your-results-post-them-here/

 

Edited September 24, 2017 by chuck23322

[Krzaku]

Not sure if this was reported already, but when updating this plugin I get no button to close the update dialog as with all the other plugins I update.

[zoggy]

is there a way to stop this popup on  bootup:

Preclear Disks
Install Statistics Plugin

This plugin is used to send statistics anonymously using Google Forms.
Don't worry, you will be asked before sending every report.

 

[dabl]

On 9/24/2017 at 6:26 PM, Krzaku said:

Not sure if this was reported already, but when updating this plugin I get no button to close the update dialog as with all the other plugins I update.

 

Yes I noticed this as well.

[gfjardim]

4 minutes ago, dabl said:

 

Yes I noticed this as well.

 

Fixed in the latest update.

[Frank1940]

8 minutes ago, gfjardim said:

 

Fixed in the latest update.

Thank you for this.  While I knew that the close button was not there, this plugin takes a long time to install on my servers as it loads several different components during installation.  (Most of the other plugins I have that get regular updates finish within a couple of seconds.)  I always had to remember to wait until I was absolutely certain the install was complete before I clicked on the 'X' to close the dialog box. 

[stevep94]

I've just bought a new 2TB drive that I want to set up on my unRAID server - when I come to use Preclear it's telling me that the model famil, device model, serial number, firmware version and size are all "undefined" - is this normal??

 

Also, for a brand new drive, which operation should I be running? (Clear, verify all the disk, verify MBR only, erase all the disk or erase and clear the disk)

 

And lastly, should I be skipping the pre or post read??

Thanks for any help with this - VERY new unRAID user here!!!

[fredhoon]

45 minutes ago, stevep94 said:

I've just bought a new 2TB drive that I want to set up on my unRAID server - when I come to use Preclear it's telling me that the model famil, device model, serial number, firmware version and size are all "undefined" - is this normal??

 

I'm getting this as well, a previous version used to show this info without issue.

 

I'm also loosing all the pre-clear icons from Main tab after a pre-clear on a disk is started.  Also the Pre-clear plugin page  is now empty with message "No unassigned disks available", however all my drives are unassigned.

[gfjardim]

@fredhoon and @stevep94, please update your plugin and see if that helps.

[stevep94]

I've literally just done a fresh install of Preclear - would this still need updating? (and if so, how would I do this??)

[gfjardim]

22 minutes ago, stevep94 said:

I've literally just done a fresh install of Preclear - would this still need updating? (and if so, how would I do this??)

 

Well, I've submitted an update just before asking you guys to update.

[stevep94]

I've updated mine (assume I don't need a reboot or anything??) and it doesn't seem to have made any difference - my 2TB drive still shows up in my unassigned devices list in my "Main" tab (although there is no illumination on the far left near where it says "sdc" - is it supposed to?

 

 

And if I click on the Preclear icon I still get the following

 

 

Also, if I click on Tools>Preclear Disk nothing shows up:

 

 

Am I doing something wrong or should this show a bit more information? (I don't want to start the Preclear process without being sure I've set everything up correctly!)

Thanks...

Edited September 26, 2017 by stevep94

[gfjardim]

Please reboot your server.

[stevep94]

Will do! Thanks!

[fredhoon]

Cheers for the quick response and 2017.09.26 update.

 

Upgrading in place initially fixed the issues up...

• all drives were showing on preclear page
• disk details were displayed correctly in the options window

 

however after rebooting it was back to the 2017.09.25 symptoms...

• no drives on pre-clear page
• if launched from the unassigned disks link the options window disk details were all showing "undefined"
• start button would not launch the preclear script and removed preclear icon from assigned disk list on main page

 

I've since tried a clean install (remove plugin / reboot / install plugin / reboot) and am still presented with the same symptoms.  Screenshots and preclear log attacehd.

 

RACK-preclear.disk-20170927-1623.zip

 

 

Before Starting preclear script from plugin:

 

 

 

 

 

After starting preclear from plugin....

Edited September 26, 2017 by fredhoon

[dnamaster2000]

I'm having the same issue, just re-installed pre clear, and that did not fix the issue.

 

my symptoms match exactly with what fredhoon posted.

[JMack89427]

Same issue here.  Brand new unRAID installation and just installed preclear plugin.

[JMack89427]

16 minutes ago, JMack89427 said:

Same issue here.  Brand new unRAID installation and just installed preclear plugin.

I noticed an error about rc.diskinfo not running when I installed the plugin.  I tried using the .plg file for 9.24 from my other unRAID server to install the plugin, which installed but still didn't work.  What I did was  run "/etc/rc.d/rc.diskinfo -d" to start it on daemon mode while 9.24 was installed and then updated to 9.26.  Now I'm able to run preclear and it displays all of the expected disk information.

 

Hope this helps someone

[dnamaster2000]

when I try to pre clear the disk, the icon on main goes away, but when I open pre clear I was able to find a log for the operation. it looks like because there is an issue with the drive information, it thinks the disk is in the array.

 

in my case this is a new disk, fresh out of the box into the server.

 

 

 

the disk selected is the one listed in the "potential candidates for clearing" list.

 

 

Edit: adding screen shot of how disk is appearing in pre clear plugin

 

Edited September 27, 2017 by dnamaster2000

[fredhoon]

11 hours ago, JMack89427 said:

I noticed an error about rc.diskinfo not running when I installed the plugin.  I tried using the .plg file for 9.24 from my other unRAID server to install the plugin, which installed but still didn't work.  What I did was  run "/etc/rc.d/rc.diskinfo -d" to start it on daemon mode while 9.24 was installed and then updated to 9.26.  Now I'm able to run preclear and it displays all of the expected disk information.

 

Hope this helps someone

 

Cheers, I noticed that as well in the install log.  I'll try and start diskinfo manually when I get home and/or reinstall with diskinfo started.  Thanks for the tip!

 

[edit]

After sitting idle all day the preclear page & unassigned drives were functioning normally when I arrived home from work.  I didn't restart and test manually starting diskinfo, just kicked off a preclear on 8x drives.  Is is possible that diskinfo is a delayed start after a reboot and that is causing the preclear symptoms reported above?

Edited September 27, 2017 by fredhoon

[gfjardim]

 
Cheers, I noticed that as well in the install log.  I'll try and start diskinfo manually when I get home and/or reinstall with diskinfo started.  Thanks for the tip!
 
[edit]
After sitting idle all day the preclear page & unassigned drives were functioning normally when I arrived home from work.  I didn't restart and test manually starting diskinfo, just kicked off a preclear on 8x drives.  Is is possible that diskinfo is a delayed start after a reboot and that is causing the preclear symptoms reported above?

Yes.

The correct command to test it is /etc/rc.d/rc.diskinfo --daemon

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[dnamaster2000]

Installed the 2017.09.27 update and everything is working correctly now, thank you for the quick fix!