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When you say, "lockup", can you still access via telnet or do you have to hard reset?

You'll need a USB Flash with a valid GUID (ie, s/n) in order to register.

The Windows XP "WordPad" editor will preserve the newline sequence it finds in a file. For windows, each line is terminated with CR and LF (Carriage Return and Line Feed) characters. For *nix, each line is terminated with a single LF character.

Same as upgrading from 4.1. Copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot syslinux.cfg menu.c32 memtest

Download. More bug fixes and improvements: unRAID Server 4.2-beta4 Release Notes Upgrade Instructions (Please Read Carefully) -------------------------------------------- If you are currently running unRAID Server 4.2-beta1 or higher, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot If you are currently running unRAID server 4.1, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot syslinux.cfg menu.c32 memtest This can be done either by plugging the Flash into your PC or, but copying the files to the 'flash' share on your running server. The server must then be rebooted. If you are currently running unRAID Server 3.0-beta1 or higher, please follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Referring to the System Management Utility 'Main' page, make a note of each disks's model/serial number; you will need this information later. 2. Shut down your server, remove the Flash and plug it into your PC. 3. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Properties. Make sure the volume label is set to "UNRAID" (without the quotes) and click OK. You do NOT need to format the Flash. 4. Copy the files from the new release to the root of your Flash device. 5. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Eject. Remove the Flash, install in your server and power-up. 6. After your server has booted up, the System Management Utility 'Main' page will probably show no devices; this is OK, navigate to the 'Devices' page. Using the model/serial number information gathered in step 1, assign each of your hard drives to the correct disk slot. 7. Go back to the 'Main' page and your devices should appear correctly. You may now Start the array. If you are installing this release to a new Flash, please refer to instructions on our website at: http://www.lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=19 Changes from 4.1-beta3 to 4.2-beta4 ----------------------------------- Bug Fix: initial create of a User share was ignoring configured parameters, causing the share to be created using "High-water" method with null Included/Excluded strings. Bug Fix: if a share Export mode was set to "Export read/write, hidden", then it would indeed be exported as read/write, hidden, but the System Management Utility would show it's setting as "Don't export". Bug Fix: if the Time zone was set to something other than "(custom)", the time zone abbreviation was displayed wrong. Improvement: increased some maximum sizes: - for a Share name: 80 characters (Windows maximum permitted) - for a Share comment: 256 characters (Windows maximum permitted) - Included disks, Excluded disks: 256 characters - for Exceptions, Valid users, Invalid users: 256 characters Note that the total lenth of a User share file path can not exceed 240 characters. Improvement: now possible to specify a range of disks in Included disks and Excluded disks. For example: "disk1-4, disk6, disk10-11" Improvement: de-coupled root login from User share security mode. Now if the root password is not blank, then we prompt user for password when opening System Management Utility webpage, if root password is blank, then there will be no password prompt. Regardless, telnet login will prompt for password, which can be blank. For both SMU and telnet, only the user 'root' can log in. Improvement: added Marvell SATA driver Changes from 4.1-beta2 to 4.2-beta3 ----------------------------------- Improvement: changed method for spinning up drives - should be more reliable. Improvement: added lastest Realtek r8168 driver verion 8.003.00. This is the Linux device driver released for RealTek RTL8168B/8111B and RTL8168C/8111C, Gigabit Ethernet controllers with PCI-Express interface. Changes from 4.1-beta1 to 4.2-beta2 ----------------------------------- Bug Fix: don't create User shares from ordinary files found in the root of each disk. Bug Fix: correct problem where Windows would complain about "directory not found" when deleting a directory in a User share. Bug Fix: do not any user except 'root' log in to the console or telent. Changes from 4.1 to 4.2-beta1 ----------------------------- Improvement: added users and passwords support Improvement: full User Share support Improvement: added buttons to the Main page to immediately spin up or spin down all the hard drives. Also moved "Clear Disk Statistics" button to the Main page. Bug fix: Fixed code assertion bug handling disk errors. Misc: upgrade to linux 2.6.22.5 kernel. Misc: upgrade to Samba 3.0.25b. Note: after upgrading to this version of Samba, some users have reported that even though they can see their shares, Windows reports that the share is not accessible. This can be remedied by re-booting your Windows PC. Misc: added "-p port" option to emhttp executable to change the port that the System Management Utility listens to from the default '80'. Misc: added a boot menu with option to start "Memtest86+" - an open source x86 system RAM test suite. Refer to http://www.memtest.org/

No the config data is not stored anywhere else. You should backup the contents of the 'config' directory of the flash to somewhere, e.g., your pc from time to time. Yes we should add this feature - I' put it on Ye Olde Laundry List: - automatic save/restore of Flash 'config' directory to a designated hard disk file

In this case you have to click Restore (after first checking "I'm sure I want to do this" box). If the new smaller drive does not have a reiserfs file sytem, it will show up as unformatted. In no case will you lose any data on the other data drives.

Yes it appears that card is supported. The current 4.2-beta3 (and below) does not have the driver built, but we will include it in the -beta4 release. Also found a post where apparently the card will work in a standard 32-bit PCI bus: http://groups.google.com/group/muc.lists.freebsd.questions/browse_frm/thread/18e47f7e51223821/98274da8e27ade30?lnk=st&q=SAT2-MV8&rnum=2#98274da8e27ade30

Does your motherboard have 64-bit PCI-X slot?

Try rfstool: http://www.p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html

Do you mean the "Promise SATA300 TX4"? With the Promise controller plugged in, you should see it's bios appear on the screen just after the POST portion of the motherboard bios. There is no set up or drivers necessary. If you don't see it's bios messages, perhaps the card is dead. Perhaps try reseating it.

Download. A couple improvements: unRAID Server 4.2-beta3 Release Notes Upgrade Instructions (Please Read Carefully) -------------------------------------------- If you are currently running unRAID Server 4.2-beta1 or higher, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot If you are currently running unRAID server 4.1, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot syslinux.cfg menu.c32 memtest This can be done either by plugging the Flash into your PC or, but copying the files to the 'flash' share on your running server. The server must then be rebooted. If you are currently running unRAID Server 3.0-beta1 or higher, please follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Referring to the System Management Utility 'Main' page, make a note of each disks's model/serial number; you will need this information later. 2. Shut down your server, remove the Flash and plug it into your PC. 3. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Properties. Make sure the volume label is set to "UNRAID" (without the quotes) and click OK. You do NOT need to format the Flash. 4. Copy the files from the new release to the root of your Flash device. 5. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Eject. Remove the Flash, install in your server and power-up. 6. After your server has booted up, the System Management Utility 'Main' page will probably show no devices; this is OK, navigate to the 'Devices' page. Using the model/serial number information gathered in step 1, assign each of your hard drives to the correct disk slot. 7. Go back to the 'Main' page and your devices should appear correctly. You may now Start the array. If you are installing this release to a new Flash, please refer to instructions on our website at: http://www.lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=19 Changes from 4.1-beta2 to 4.2-beta3 ----------------------------------- Improvement: changed method for spinning up drives - should be more reliable. Improvement: added lastest Realtek r8168 driver verion 8.003.00. This is the Linux device driver released for RealTek RTL8168B/8111B and RTL8168C/8111C, Gigabit Ethernet controllers with PCI-Express interface. Changes from 4.1-beta1 to 4.2-beta2 ----------------------------------- Bug Fix: don't create User shares from ordinary files found in the root of each disk. Bug Fix: correct problem where Windows would complain about "directory not found" when deleting a directory in a User share. Bug Fix: do not any user except 'root' log in to the console or telent. Changes from 4.1 to 4.2-beta1 ----------------------------- Improvement: added users and passwords support Improvement: full User Share support Improvement: added buttons to the Main page to immediately spin up or spin down all the hard drives. Also moved "Clear Disk Statistics" button to the Main page. Bug fix: Fixed code assertion bug handling disk errors. Misc: upgrade to linux 2.6.22.5 kernel. Misc: upgrade to Samba 3.0.25b. Note: after upgrading to this version of Samba, some users have reported that even though they can see their shares, Windows reports that the share is not accessible. This can be remedied by re-booting your Windows PC. Misc: added "-p port" option to emhttp executable to change the port that the System Management Utility listens to from the default '80'. Misc: added a boot menu with option to start "Memtest86+" - an open source x86 system RAM test suite. Refer to http://www.memtest.org/

Joe, The User shares are implemented as a FUSE file system. There are some mount options I can experiment with (e.g., "direct_io"), but I really need to look into the code to see how i/o is handled - just no time to do this yet. A more interesting benchmark is, what effect does read-ahead have on network read speed, ie, reading from a Windows PC - does it significantly increase? BTW, now that FUSE is included, we can look into adding NTFS3G.

Good job guys! If you don't mind some more testing... how does increasing read-ahead help read transfer rate via network? And does it make any difference reading from /mnt/diskX vs. a User share?

Interesting - I tried to reproduce this, but after Clear has completed the new drives always show up 'Unformatted'. Next time this ever happens, please try to capture the system log.

Download. Bug fixes. See release notes: unRAID Server 4.2-beta2 Release Notes Upgrade Instructions (Please Read Carefully) -------------------------------------------- If you are currently running unRAID Server 4.2-beta1, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot If you are currently running unRAID server 4.1, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot syslinux.cfg menu.c32 memtest This can be done either by plugging the Flash into your PC or, but copying the files to the 'flash' share on your running server. The server must then be rebooted. If you are currently running unRAID Server 3.0-beta1 or higher, please follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Referring to the System Management Utility 'Main' page, make a note of each disks's model/serial number; you will need this information later. 2. Shut down your server, remove the Flash and plug it into your PC. 3. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Properties. Make sure the volume label is set to "UNRAID" (without the quotes) and click OK. You do NOT need to format the Flash. 4. Copy the files from the new release to the root of your Flash device. 5. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Eject. Remove the Flash, install in your server and power-up. 6. After your server has booted up, the System Management Utility 'Main' page will probably show no devices; this is OK, navigate to the 'Devices' page. Using the model/serial number information gathered in step 1, assign each of your hard drives to the correct disk slot. 7. Go back to the 'Main' page and your devices should appear correctly. You may now Start the array. If you are installing this release to a new Flash, please refer to instructions on our website at: http://www.lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=19 Changes from 4.1-beta1 to 4.2-beta2 ----------------------------------- Bug Fix: don't create User shares from ordinary files found in the root of each disk. Bug Fix: correct problem where Windows would complain about "directory not found" when deleting a directory in a User share. Bug Fix: do not any user except 'root' log in to the console or telent. Changes from 4.1 to 4.2-beta1 ----------------------------- Improvement: added users and passwords support Improvement: full User Share support Improvement: added buttons to the Main page to immediately spin up or spin down all the hard drives. Also moved "Clear Disk Statistics" button to the Main page. Bug fix: Fixed code assertion bug handling disk errors. Misc: upgrade to linux 2.6.22.5 kernel. Misc: upgrade to Samba 3.0.25b. Note: after upgrading to this version of Samba, some users have reported that even though they can see their shares, Windows reports that the share is not accessible. This can be remedied by re-booting your Windows PC. Misc: added "-p port" option to emhttp executable to change the port that the System Management Utility listens to from the default '80'. Misc: added a boot menu with option to start "Memtest86+" - an open source x86 system RAM test suite. Refer to http://www.memtest.org/

The P5B-VM DO is what we use in the MD-1500 servers & we've never seen this error - probably it's something unique to his config.

Download. There's a few rough edges and we're still writing documentation, but I thought I'd go ahead and release the first beta of the 4.2 release. Main features of this release are: - full User share support - User level security - upgrade to latest linux kernel (2.6.22.5) - upgrade to latest Samba (3.0.25b) There's also a new boot menu which gives you the ability to boot into a nice memory tester. There are some other features which will be enabled in future beta releases. Also, sorry to disappoint you NFS guys, but sorry, no NFS support in this release; will have to wait for -beta2 or -beta3. Some documentation describing User level security and User shares is here. unRAID Server 4.2-beta1 Release Notes Upgrade Instructions -------------------- If you are currently running unRAID server 4.1, please copy the following files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: bzimage bzroot If you want to be able to select and run "Memtest86" (a stand-alone memory tester) from a new boot menu, please also copy these files from the new release to the root of your Flash device: syslinux.cfg menu.c32 memtest This can be done either by plugging the Flash into your PC or, but copying the files to the 'flash' share on your running server. The server must then be rebooted. If you are currently running unRAID Server 3.0-beta1 or higher, please follow these steps to upgrade: 1. Referring to the System Management Utility 'Main' page, make a note of each disks's model/serial number; you will need this information later. 2. Shut down your server, remove the Flash and plug it into your PC. 3. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Properties. Make sure the volume label is set to "UNRAID" (without the quotes) and click OK. You do NOT need to format the Flash. 4. Copy the files: bzimage bzroot syslinux.cfg menu.c32 memtest license.txt readme.txt from the new release to the root of your Flash device. 5. Right-click your Flash device listed under My Computer and select Eject. Remove the Flash, install in your server and power-up. 6. After your server has booted up, the System Management Utility 'Main' page will probably show no devices; this is OK, navigate to the 'Devices' page. Using the model/serial number information gathered in step 1, assign each of your hard drives to the correct disk slot. 7. Go back to the 'Main' page and your devices should appear correctly. You may now Start the array. If you are installing this release to a new Flash, please refer to instructions on our website at: http://www.lime-technology.com/wordpress/?page_id=19 Changes from 4.1 to 4.2-beta1 ----------------------------- Improvement: added users and passwords support Improvement: full User Share support Improvement: added buttons to the Main page to immediately spin up or spin down all the hard drives. Also moved "Clear Disk Statistics" button to the Main page. Bug fix: Fixed code assertion bug handling disk errors. Misc: upgrade to linux 2.6.22.5 kernel. Misc: upgrade to Samba 3.0.25b. Note: after upgrading to this version of Samba, some users have reported that even though they can see their shares, Windows reports that the share is not accessible. This can be remedied by re-booting your Windows PC. Misc: added "-p port" option to emhttp executable to change the port that the System Management Utility listens to from the default '80'. Misc: added a boot menu with option to start "Memtest86+" - an open source x86 system RAM test suite. Refer to http://www.memtest.org/

I keep forgetting to delete that pesky bash_history file

No, not a whole new driver, just patches to existing driver. Most of the time I can search through the code and see if the chip is supported, and if not, check for a patch - just don't have time right now to do this.

There's a Firefox addon to edit the MIME types and associated helper applications that Firefox knows about: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4498 Once installed you get a "MIME Edit" option in the Tools menu. Hope this helps.

If you can find data sheets for the drives on the manufactures website they often will tell you precisely how many sectors there are. If you already bought them, just plug into your server and assign them as disk1, disk2, disk3 (ie, no parity). Then their exact size will be displayed on the Main page where you can decide which to use for parity. In any case, parity drive must be larger, or same size as all other drives.

Do you have a link to the PCIe card? I want to know which chip it uses.

There's a fix for this which will be in the next release (4.2-beta1).

Yeah I have to get around to doing that. Your settings look ok. We also disable ieee1394, serial, parallel support. You should not see your Flash listed twice - never seen that before. Make sure you're using the latest bios. BTW, all you have to do is download the bios file onto your Flash and then use the motherboard bios update utility - works great. Setting on-board SATA to AHCI or IDE works. We have noticed that in AHCI mode the Hitachi 7K1000 (1TB) hard drives are not always detected from a cold power-up - no problem with other drive types. Very strange. We sent a message off to Asus telling them about a "cold start AHCI detection bug" so perhaps this will get fixed in a new bios release.