MyMain shows 6TB disk as "HPA?" + disk has no ID

Hi everyone,

I am building a new unraid system and started with a WD 6TB Red (WD60EFRX). I just precleared it and added it as parity drive. MyMain has the "HPA?" warning on it. I should note that the Mobo is not a gigabyte and additionally I tried the command I show elsewhere in the forum:

dev/sdc:
max sectors   = 11721045168/11721045168, HPA is disabled

So I am guessing it is a bogus warning. I wanted to disable it but i noticed the disk has not an ID. But:

hdparm  -I /dev/sdc|grep Serial

returns a serial number

My questions are:

1. Am I right to believe the warning is not correct?

2. If so, how can I remove the warning?

3. Does the lack of id in MyMainsignify a problem? [uPDATE: Ignore question 3. The HDD got an id when I added a second drive. Obviously, for the id to be shown, there an array must have been created]

Brian (bjp999 ... the author of MyMain) may want to comment, but I'm fairly certain this is a bogus warning due simply to the lack of parameters for 6TB drives in MyMain.    You can suppress the warning by setting the "hpa_ok" attribute to 1 on the drive settings page.

Brian (bjp999 ... the author of MyMain) may want to comment, but I'm fairly certain this is a bogus warning due simply to the lack of parameters for 6TB drives in MyMain.    You can suppress the warning by setting the "hpa_ok" attribute to 1 on the drive settings page.

Thanks for your response, that's what I thought, too. But in order to change the "hpa_ok" attribute I have to access the settings page which is done by clicking on the disk id. And, as I already mentioned, my id field for the specific drive is empty.

... to change the "hpa_ok" attribute I have to access the settings page which is done by clicking on the disk id. ...

 

...my id field for the specific drive is empty. ...

Yes, that's a nasty Catch-22 ... guess you just need to live with it until Brian updates MyMain.

I vaguely recall a discussion about this a few months ago ... are you sure you're using the most current version of MyMain in UnMenu?    It MAY have already been resolved.    On the User Scripts page in UnMenu, click on the "Check for UnMenu Updates" button ... then scroll to the bottom of that page and see what it found.

... to change the "hpa_ok" attribute I have to access the settings page which is done by clicking on the disk id. ...

 

...my id field for the specific drive is empty. ...

 

Yes, that's a nasty Catch-22 ... guess you just need to live with it until Brian updates MyMain.

 

I vaguely recall a discussion about this a few months ago ... are you sure you're using the most current version of MyMain in UnMenu?    It MAY have already been resolved.    On the User Scripts page in UnMenu, click on the "Check for UnMenu Updates" button ... then scroll to the bottom of that page and see what it found.

For some reason, it was not fully updated, but I performed an update, and a few packages were updated except for 3:

5a0630afc49c196a23db71a5d02bf18f != a5d02879e3d52eb0dffda20f12d0111c or 7799da8e46bf08d7a328617cb1a48442,  /tmp/unmenu_tmp/myMain_local.conf not installed

d0b27d3a4d9a936a384ec34bb24f85e6 != d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e or d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e,  /tmp/unmenu_tmp/powerdown-1.02_ctlaltdel-unmenu-package.conf not installed

9c1682566014551ded33dc8a79aff891 != 8c17090fc9a1f215d3e86731f1131f73 or 4e08b8911d69f27f8d6197e95d6985c7,  /tmp/unmenu_tmp/unraid-swapfile-unmenu-package.conf not installed

But this may or may not be a different problem I guess. Still after updating (current version: Version 1.6 Revision: 278) and restarting unmenu, I see no difference in myArray.

The id problem has been fixed, I still worry a bit about HPA although I am 99% positive that it really is not an actual problem

Hi everyone,

I am building a new unraid system and started with a WD 6TB Red (WD60EFRX). I just precleared it and added it as parity drive. MyMain has the "HPA?" warning on it. I should note that the Mobo is not a gigabyte and additionally I tried the command I show elsewhere in the forum:

dev/sdc:
max sectors   = 11721045168/11721045168, HPA is disabled

So I am guessing it is a bogus warning.

That is correct.  unMenu & myMain must be configured to recognize the correct number of sectors for each HD size.  It has not been updated for anything larger than 4TB.  Set hpa_ok = 1 to remove the warning as explained here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14194.msg134248#msg134248

For some reason, it was not fully updated, but I performed an update, and a few packages were updated except for 3:

5a0630afc49c196a23db71a5d02bf18f != a5d02879e3d52eb0dffda20f12d0111c or 7799da8e46bf08d7a328617cb1a48442,  /tmp/unmenu_tmp/myMain_local.conf not installed

d0b27d3a4d9a936a384ec34bb24f85e6 != d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e or d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e,  /tmp/unmenu_tmp/powerdown-1.02_ctlaltdel-unmenu-package.conf not installed

9c1682566014551ded33dc8a79aff891 != 8c17090fc9a1f215d3e86731f1131f73 or 4e08b8911d69f27f8d6197e95d6985c7,  /tmp/unmenu_tmp/unraid-swapfile-unmenu-package.conf not installed

 

But this may or may not be a different problem I guess. Still after updating (current version: Version 1.6 Revision: 278) and restarting unmenu, I see no difference in myArray.

The error "myMain_local.conf not installed" is expected.  That file is your local configuration file for myMain.  If it were overwritten you'd lose any drive data you've entered in the myMain screens.

"powerdown-1.02_ctlaltdel-unmenu-package.conf not installed" occurs because that file was removed from the source repository but not the release list that the "Check for updates" uses.  Ignore it.

I'm not sure why you are getting "unraid-swapfile-unmenu-package.conf not installed".  I don't get that error when I update.  If you don't use that package, just ignore it.