JimmyJoe

I use PING and it is free: http://ping.windowsdream.com/ Works great for network image backup of PCs to unRAID server.

Level 2 testing completed. I had to remove the mover log entries from the syslog, since the file was too large to attach. I have added ~4TB of DVD rips in the last month. So far I am very happy. Updated wiki.

Boing! Now at $239.99

This happened to me several times with WD10EADS drives. I don't know why. I have probably ran preclear_disk against 5 different WD10EADS drives maybe 50 times (I used it as a burn-in to test all slots on my Norco 2020). I would say about 10% of the time it would hang at the exact same place. This happened on different drives and appeared random. If I ran it again, it would typically complete successfully.

I think it is more likely ignorance on someone's part and they are trying to say "This is not a RAID card".

Been rock solid for a little over 2 weeks now including adding ~2TB of ripped DVDs to the server. Woohoo!

I am using one of these in a PCIe x1 slot and it is inexpensive and working well for me: http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040702&p_id=2530&seq=1&format=2

It should be "UNRAID" not "UNRIAD"...

Here is my HW list for my first unRAID rig: Motherboard - SuperMicro C2SEA - 6 sata ports (requires DDR3 memory) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182161 CPU - Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 Processor, 2.5 GHz, 2M L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB, LGA775 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116072 Power Supply - CORSAIR 750w TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006 Memory - CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1333 TW3X4G1333C9 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145218 Case - Norco 4020 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219021 Controller - Qty 2 - Adaptec 1430SA PCIe x4 - 8 ports (4 each) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103105 Controller - Qty 1 - SD-SA2PEX-2IR PCIe x1 - 2 ports (Sil3132 chipset) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815124027 Controller - Qty 1 - LSI PCI SATA MegaRAID 150-6 Kit - 6 ports http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816118011 HDD - Qty 4 - Western Digital 1TB Green WD10EADS (3 data, 1 parity) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136317 HDD - Qty 2 - Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB HD501LJ (2 data) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822152052 HDD - Qty 1 - Western Digital 320GB WD3200AVJS (cache) http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=281 USB - SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171337 Battery Backup - APC SmartUPS 1000 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16842101159 Power adapters - Qty 4 - Kingwin SAC-05 15 Pin SATA Power Connector To Dual 4 Pin Female Molex http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812226018 External sata adapter - Asus 2 port with power (connected to 2 ports on the LSI for external backup HDD)

Are all of these brand new parts or are you re-using parts from another build? Do you have any add-in cards installed in any slots and if so what cards in what slots? What video card are you using? If it was me, I would start with the following: 1. Double check all the wired connections between the motherboard and the case (LED, Power Switch, Reset, etc). Disconnect all Floppy, IDE, Sata connections - everything except CPU, Memory and Video. Reboot. 2. Plug the monitor into another PC and make sure it is working with the same video cable. 3. Make sure the motherboard is securely installed in the case (all screws snug in all standoffs) 4. Memory - I assume you have 2x2GB matched pair. Re-seat the RAM and reboot (make sure you have installed in either the yellow or the black slots - not one of each). If you tried yellow, try black next and reboot. Still no go, try a single stick in the first yellow and reboot. Then try a single stick in the first black slot and reboot. 5. Video - Try your video card in each slot it will fit in. Try a different video card. If using PCIe try a PCI video card if you have one. 6. CPU - Reseat the CPU and reboot. 7. Still no go, reset the CMOS (see manual) and try the above steps 4&5 again. If any of these cause you to post, first thing I would do after that is flash the bios to the latest available. Then add back each other component one a time and let it post after each one, before adding the next.

Thanks. I searched around and it appears to be related to the bios. I did already flash the latest bios available. I also found some info that says that OEMB is not even used by Linux, but used by Windows for ACPI so that it can be ignored. So far my system is rock solid so I am going to ignore the error for now.

Completed parity check, attached syslog for level 1 and updated the wiki. I do see one minor error in the syslog: May 21 18:28:58 voyager kernel: ACPI Warning (tbutils-0217): Incorrect checksum in table [OEMB] - B5, should be A8 [20080609] Anyone have any insight on this? Thanks, JimmyJoe

Hi everyone. The wiki and forums are great resources, thanks for all the excellent information. My old "server" was running Windows XP with a HW RAID 5 array and a 5 in 3 SATA module. This worked great for a couple of years for me and was primarily used to store backups and music. Then I decided to put my 600+ DVDs onto a media server and that old system obviously wouldn't do anymore. This is what brought me to the world of unRAID. I am VERY happy to be here. I wanted to share a little about what my config looks like and thank those that really helped me get this built the way I wanted. I am currently running unRAID Server Pro 4.4.2. Been up for a couple of weeks and so far so good. I just restarted and kicked off a parity check tonight so that I can level 2 certify my motherboard since I didn't see it on the Hardware wiki and hopefully that will help someone. Here is my HW list: Motherboard - SuperMicro C2SEA - 6 sata ports (requires DDR3 memory) CPU - Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 Processor, 2.5 GHz, 2M L2 Cache, 800MHz FSB, LGA775 Power Supply - CORSAIR 750w TX Series 80 Plus Certified Power Supply Memory - CORSAIR XMS3 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 1333 TW3X4G1333C9 Case - Norco 4020 Controller - Qty 2 - Adaptec 1430SA PCIe x4 - 8 ports (4 each) Controller - Qty 1 - SD-SA2PEX-2IR PCIe x1 - 2 ports (Sil3132 chipset) Controller - Qty 1 - LSI PCI SATA MegaRAID 150-6 Kit - 6 ports HDD - Qty 4 - Western Digital 1TB Green WD10EADS (3 data, 1 parity) HDD - Qty 2 - Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB HD501LJ (2 data) HDD - Qty 1 - Western Digital 320GB WD3200AVJS (cache) USB - SanDisk Cruzer Micro 4GB Battery Backup - APC SmartUPS 1000 Power adapters - Qty 4 - Kingwin SAC-05 15 Pin SATA Power Connector To Dual 4 Pin Female Molex External sata adapter - Asus 2 port with power (connected to 2 ports on the LSI for external backup HDD) The MB is not the C2SEE used in the limetech build, it is based on the same PCB but is the C2SEA. Both MBs come in the same box, same manual and run the same bios. Major differences that the C2SEA has compared to the C2SEE: Intel G45 North Bridge Intel GMA X4500HD Video 2 more DIMM slots (up to 8GB memory) IDE connector - ATA 100 (2 devices) HDMI port 2 1394a Firewire ports 2 less PCI slots So I have all 20 bays on the Norco 4020 wired (16 on the PCIe bus, 4 on PCI) and 2 external ports via the adapter. The Kingwin SAC-05 adapters worked great to power the sata backplanes. As part of my burn-in I tested all cables and channels by moving the drives around to each slot and ran through a couple cycles of the preclear script. Many thanks to Joe L for the great script which can be found here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2817.0 My old PC-based server with the RAID 5 array used ~132 watts at idle where the new unRAID box uses ~89 watts. Woohoo!!! Save some money. I did run some windows based apps on my old server, so I wanted to do that on my new unRAID box too. I was able to follow the great info in the forum to get vmware up and running with an XP virtual machine. I basically got my dev box up and running, built and deployed packages to my prod box in just a few hours. I had never build a package before or recompiled a kernel. I am technical so this was actually a lot of fun, I enjoyed it. Even when it didn't work right the first time I tried it. Thanks musicmann and al_uk - you guys really made it easy with info found here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=862.msg28539#msg28539 I also wanted to install several other packages (ntfs-3g, apcupsd, powerdown and smartmontools) so that lead me to unmenu. Wow Joe L, this thing rocks. Great interface and package manager is wonderful. Thanks! http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2595.0 I think the most fun I had with this build was pulling the plug on the box, watching it switch to battery power and when that was running low gracefully shutdown the server. Then plug it back in and watch it wake up and automatically re-start including the Win XP vm that was restarted just like the power never went off which for me means that my ebay sniping software is still eagerly waiting to pull the trigger. Thanks to flambot and Joe L for the apcupsd info I found here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3688.0 I also updated my mover script from 4.5beta6 to fix both removing empty dirs and errors for '.' files as noted here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3171.0 Running directory cache from this thread to help keep things green and prevent unneccesary spin ups. Thanks Joe L. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3666.msg32991#msg32991 Running unraid_notify to let me know of any problems and also automatically shutdown gracefully if it gets to hot. Thanks to brainbone: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2470.0 Thanks, JimmyJoe

I found some other forum posts and a section in the wiki about custom kernels, I just need to play with it to try to get it working. Thanks for your help.

OK, thanks bubbaQ. That is what I thought. I do have a dev system that I used to build my vmware packages but I am not sure how to enable CD/DVD support into the kernel. Can you point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Anyone use a CD or DVD drive with unraid? I want to be able to use this within a Win XP virtual machine. Thanks!

I tested it on my build and it works fine either way. What version are you running and can you attach a syslog output?

Are you copying directly to the cache drive or are you copying to a user share that has caching enabled?

Hi - I would like to use my unraid box to RIP CD's and DVD's. I have a USB DVD drive and a SATA DVD drive currently connected, but I don't know how to mount them. Is there something I need to install into the kernel for this to work? Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Cool... does this mean I can tell my wife that I am spending this money for a MAID instead of a server?

Thanks guys for the great script. I really like the easy to use config file. Works great. I am also monitoring my cache disk. Since I have a VM always running on the cache drive, that is the one that is most important for me to watch to get a feel for the temp of the system anyway. Thanks again!

Thanks for the info guys, this was probably the most fun for me in my unraid build. I thoroughly enjoyed pulling the plug on my server, waiting until it hit the battery threshold, preformed a clean shutdown and then automatically re-start when power was restored. Some things are just priceless. I really felt like a kid in a candy store. Woohoo!!!

Great thread, thanks! I was able to build my dev box, create my vmware packages and deploy successfully to my production box. Kudos to al_uk, your post helped me a lot. Thanks!

Thanks musicmann for the great instructions. I was able to build my dev box pretty easily with the great info in this thread. Thanks!

Unmenu is a great addition to unraid. I love it, thank you!