CheeryFlame
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Hello! First I want to say that I'm a rookie and this is my first build, still I'm proud that I went that far by reading documentations and trial and error all by myself!
Although I'm at the point I need some help. I bought refurbished drives and I can return them easily if I can find defective ones within 30 days. I did some research and the best way I could find to intensively test my drives is @Spearfoot 's burn-in script.
I first tried running it in TrueNAS' Shell but unfortunately I could only do 1x drive at a time and I couldn't even finish one as I've been disconnected and lost the progress. I'm not even sure if it's still going in the background. So far nothing in my /logs folder.
What I've achieved so far
I know I'm asking quite a lot of questions here but please keep in mind that this is new ground to me and I'm already impressed I was able to get this far in the process. The reason why I'm asking is because I'm in a rush to understand as I need to return faulty hard drives asap.
Thank you for helping!
Although I'm at the point I need some help. I bought refurbished drives and I can return them easily if I can find defective ones within 30 days. I did some research and the best way I could find to intensively test my drives is @Spearfoot 's burn-in script.
I first tried running it in TrueNAS' Shell but unfortunately I could only do 1x drive at a time and I couldn't even finish one as I've been disconnected and lost the progress. I'm not even sure if it's still going in the background. So far nothing in my /logs folder.
What I've achieved so far
- Install Putty configure SSH, connect successfully and run ./disk-burnin.sh
- Alter kernel's geometry debug flags to 16 with command sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=0x10
- Created 12 screens in Putty for all my 12 drives and ran in each the command sudo ./disk-burnin.sh -f -o ~/logs da0
- Detached all screens one by one with Ctrl-A + D, closed Putty
- Opened Putty used the command screen -ls to list all screens
- Verified progress of a hard drive with command screen -RD da7
- Is my operation I started in Shell on drive da0 is still continuing in the background if the TrueNAS session closed but haven't restarted the server?
- When I detach my screens, close my computer and reboot it (need to do this for work), is it still running in the background on the server?
- I made a Z1 pool with all of the 12x 12tb drives and installed the script on this pool but ran the destructive test on all drives, what will happen?
- I've used this command ./disk-burnin.sh -f -o ~/logs da[x] on each drives but I'm not sure I'm doing the whole operation?
- I tried using the flag -s to show progress but it says invalid flag, how does it work?
- I tried using the flag -v to show some information but it says invalid flag, how does it work?
- I don't understand the flag -b 8192 do I need to use it?
- I tried using the flag -w but it says invalid flag, what's the advantage of running this flag?
- I don't understand the flag -x it says to perform a full pass of badblocks, is it doing the -w at the same time and does it abort the test immediately if it finds a badblock?
- Is there a way to see progress?
I know I'm asking quite a lot of questions here but please keep in mind that this is new ground to me and I'm already impressed I was able to get this far in the process. The reason why I'm asking is because I'm in a rush to understand as I need to return faulty hard drives asap.
Thank you for helping!