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  1. Hello, I have had great success with both ESXI and unRAID passing through a USB controller to VMs using the Buffalo IFC-PCIE2U3, which is a simple dual port card powered by a single Renesas µPD720202 surface mount. Now you can imagine physical PCI-e ports can disappear quickly if you want to pass-through such native USB controllers to multiple VMs. What I have been looking for is a quad-port four-controller USB (3.0 or 2.0, just want some I/O) PCI-e card that can be split into four different pass-through devices to use with four different VMs similar to how something like an Intel I350-T4 can be split up into four separate NICs each with a single port. I have found and tested a few devices that use a PLX chip to feed four separate USB controllers, and have had no success finding a reliable solution to work with unRAID. Here are the two models I have tried so-far: HighPoint RocketU 1144C with four Asmedia 1042A Controllers - Latest Firmware dated to 2014 IOMMU Splits up OK with ACS Override and VFIO blacklisting. Passes through to VMs OK, being seen in the OS. Windows: HighPoint drivers do work OK, and all is well on first boot. USB seems to work fine. Shutting down the VM and starting back up logs an error: DMAR: [DMA Read] Request device [0a:00.0] fault addr ed000 [fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set. The port will not come back to functionality until the entire host is rebooted. Ubuntu: Works perfectly with native drivers on first boot. Shutting down the VM and starting back up logs an error: DMAR: [DMA Read] Request device [0a:00.0] fault addr ed000 [fault reason 06] PTE Read access is not set. The port will not come back to functionality until the entire host is rebooted. ESXI/Windows: Same issue after clean shut down and cold boot with not handing controller back to the host/VM properly. StarTech PEXUSB3S44V with four Renesas µPD720202 Controllers - Latest Firmware dated to 2012 IOMMU Splits up OK with ACS Override and VFIO blacklisting. Passes through to VMs OK, being seen in the OS. Windows: Throws a Code 10 error, device cannot start directly on hub. Startech drivers and Microsoft xHCI drivers both do not work. Ubuntu: Does not work at all, presumably due to same issue the windows VM was seeing. ESXI/Windows: Seems to work identically to the IFC-PCIE2U3, in that everything functions both in and outside the VMs and between shut-downs and reboots. This is where I think there should be hope for the StarTech card with unRAID/KVM with some discrete setting, or as seen in the last link below, a kernel supporting USB Attached SCSI. Are there any 4 or more port USB PCI-e controllers other users have found to work properly with unRAID? Or even two port cards? This would add a whole lot of value to the platform, having a reliable way to pass USB controllers en masse to VMs. I have found a few references looking about the web for both cards, and some recent information regarding the Startech PEXUSB3S44V and a possible custom kernel: HighPoint 1144C References: https://www.redhat.com/archives/vfio-users/2016-June/msg00102.html Startech PEXUSB3S44V References: The last link is the most promising, and something I am looking to try out. I am willing to try out just about anything, having two spare test unRaid servers currently going and hardware in hand. Any insight or experience is welcomed. Thank you for your help!
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  2. Yes but the license is very cheap (6$/year). However, you can still use the old version, see: https://github.com/jlesage/docker-filebot/blob/master/README.md#donation-supported-version
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  3. Yeah, sorry about that, -a (archive) includes -p (permissions) It will skip all completely copied files and continue the copy.
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  4. Very few situations requires extremely high single-file bandwidth. So it's seldom a sacrifice to not stripe the data. It was more important when unRAID was originally created and the disk transfer rates was much lower. Today it is more often the seek speed that is the limiting factor when using HDD solutions.
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  5. Thanks. Yeah, I'll take all of them for $100. PM me to tell me how you wish to be paid and I'll reply with my shipping details.
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  6. +1. Maybe unRaid can have an option to login with basic http authentication or a forms login page. Sonarr has this option.
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  7. While RFS will work, many users, myself included, experience performance issues especially with larger drives as the become full. I would recommend migrating to XFS. If you stoo the array, and then click on the disk, you should see the format as reiserfs or auto. Change it to xfs and save the configuration. When you restart the array the drive should appear as unmountable and offer an option to format it. Parity is maintained through this process. Note that all of the data on the drive will be lost when you format it, so please ensure that all useful data has been successfully migrated to other disks beforehand.
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