geekette

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  1. Raj, I spent like 10 minutes trying to find these units you mention on monoprice.com -- can't find em lol.. can you give me a link?
  2. I'd certainly think so, just double check the date
  3. Thanks for this. I ordered two of them for around $20 shipped. I paid $16 alone for one cable from Amazon with no metal clips! I'll be returning this Amazon one after I get the other two.
  4. --because AFP just isn't working right for me on Snow Leopard... way too slow. NFS is very fast and so far so good.. BUt i've read that people are having problems here with NFS and unRaid.. I wonder if those problems ahve been worked out in rc3? Getting a bit frustrated. Also the limited security model is concerning me. User security on a share level only isn't good enough.. I'd like to use standard unix file security--user/group/other. (I miss Novell Netware 3.11 -- permissions model on that was many tiems better than ACL on windows NT and more flexible than unix system security... I haven't seen as good file security management since)
  5. Someone is selling this board on ebay for $30 + $15 shipping is why I asked. $45 versus like $100 or more for the other one.
  6. Is there a way to find out how many lanes the IBM BR10i is actually able to utilize on this x16 graphics card slot?
  7. Is there a way to tell how many lanes the BR10i is able to use? Like with the utilities that come on the BIOS on startup or something? Sure my comptuer sees it and is using it, but is it really working at a full x8 in that x16 slot? Heck it could be running at x4 or x1 as far as I know lol.
  8. P5GC-MX does in fact support x8 raid controller--at least the IBM BR10i; I have it working in the system now--seems to be fine. I don't care now if the P35-DS3L does or not because the P5GC-MX is working for me
  9. That cable looks a bit different in that it has an extra non sata breakout connector, which kinda looks like some sort of power connector. What is that? Will that cable also work with the BR10i like the 3ware one does (without that connector).
  10. Doing a parity check on this 3 drive array now on my IBM BR10i controller. It's going along at like 72MB/s--does this sound right? I think I was getting over 100MB/s when I did a parity check with 2 drive array on my motherboard's sata controlelrs.
  11. Loving this controller. Just copied an entire 4.5GB file over to a Windows 7 machine in less than a minute. It was copying over at the full bandwidth of 1 gigabit ethernet. I really thought this card was not going to work with this motherboard lol.
  12. Thanks for all the replies; I'm really happy I went with unRaid. Seems like not many people are losing data and it's so scalable
  13. I have my 3 drive array (parity, disk1, disk2) entirely on the BR10i now--moved them from the 3 motherboard sata connectors. Booted up unRaid, mounted the array--works! Good performance and writes seem faster (35MB/s in some cases on large file) with the entire array on the BR10i vs motherboard sata ports.
  14. What is the length of the warranty? Is it from manufacture date or purchase date (or either)? Do you need to have the original receipt? How long does it typically take to receive a replacement drive? Any other details? Thanks! Compiled Information from this thread--table will be updated frequently: Manufacturer:Warranty Duration Cross-Ship Option AUS RMA Addr Hitachi1-5 YearsNo (or Yes?)? Seagate1-5 YearsYesYes Western Digital 1-5 YearsYesNo
  15. The ss-500 looks cooler to me than the ss-400 I guess it's the margins on each side of the drive bays on the horizontal (versus vertical) configuration that don't appeal to me... but that's just my personal taste.
  16. Just make sure you vacuum and blow all the dust out before putting any electronics in that case after installing one of these aluminum houses cages lol.. i"m sure you do anyways So annoying isn't it?
  17. Raj, they were completely different. I've tried my WD20EARS, WD20EARX, and HD204UI in all drive bays and every drive bay activity LED works with every drive, except for the first bay of the 5. I think I'm gonna RMA this one.
  18. The SATA connectors don't have any metal clips AND they don't fit very snug over the male SATA connectors. They feel loose and seem to be able to bump them pretty easy and lose connection. I hope they are actually making a good connection as again they didn't go on tight. Can anyone recommend another sff-8087 forward breakout cable that has metal clips and has a tighter fit? I am thinking about RMA'ing this with Amazon.
  19. After playing around with BIOS settings I got this card working in this motherboard's x16 video card slot. (It's an x8 hard disk controller.) I am doing a preclear on a 250GB Hard Drive now hooked up to the first port of this IBM BR10i eight port controller.
  20. Okay, I did a test. I have another computer on the network besides my Snow Leopard 10.6.8 client: A Windows 7 machine, which accesses the unRaid server via SMB. The 500GB copy is still proceeding from my Snow Leopard machine to the NAS via AFP (to disk2), and the reads from disk1 are still painfully slow on this machine. However, the reads from disk1 from the Windows 7 machine (via SMB) are very fast (while this copy is going on). So this tells me it's a problem with either AFP on the unRaid server or AFP on my Snow Leopard. They are the same machines hardware-wise: same nic, memory, cpu, motherboard etc.. I am intending on upgrading to Lion soon and I heard that solves the slow write problems with SMB (that snow leopard has). Hopefully I can replace AFP with SMB on lion and get the same read performance I am from the Windows 7 Machine while large copies are going on to other hard disks. Anyways, its good to know it's not my hardware in the unRaid Server.
  21. I see no errors in the syslog since I started the copy. I think I started the copy of the 500gb around 7am. Btw, I can go back further in the log if you need any information I didn't paste above.
  22. May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: Start array... May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: mdcmd (16): start STOPPED May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: unraid: allocating 18360K for 1280 stripes (3 disks) May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: md1: running, size: 1953514552 blocks May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: md2: running, size: 1953513492 blocks May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (181): udevadm settle May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (182): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event array_started May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp_event: array_started May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: Mounting disks... May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (183): mkdir /mnt/disk2 May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (184): mkdir /mnt/disk1 May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (185): set -o pipefail ; mount -t reiserfs -o user_xattr,acl,noatime,nodiratime /dev/md2 /mnt/disk2 |& logger May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (186): set -o pipefail ; mount -t reiserfs -o user_xattr,acl,noatime,nodiratime /dev/md1 /mnt/disk1 |& logger May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: mdcmd (17): check CORRECT May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: md: recovery thread woken up ... May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md2): found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md2): using ordered data mode May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md2): journal params: device md2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md2): checking transaction log (md2) May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md1): found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md1): using ordered data mode May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: md: recovery thread has nothing to resync May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md1): journal params: device md1, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30 May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md1): checking transaction log (md1) May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md2): Using r5 hash to sort names May 29 06:07:26 Galaxy kernel: REISERFS (device md1): Using r5 hash to sort names May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (187): chmod 770 '/mnt/disk2' May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (188): chmod 770 '/mnt/disk1' May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (189): chown nobody:users '/mnt/disk2' May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (190): chown nobody:users '/mnt/disk1' May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (191): mkdir /mnt/user May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (192): /usr/local/sbin/shfs /mnt/user -disks 6 -o noatime,big_writes,allow_other,default_permissions,use_ino May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (193): crontab -c /etc/cron.d -d &> /dev/null May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (194): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event disks_mounted May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp_event: disks_mounted May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (195): :>/etc/samba/smb-shares.conf May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (196): cp /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default- /etc/netatalk/AppleVolumes.default May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: Start SMB... May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (197): /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start |& logger May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy logger: Starting Samba: /usr/sbin/nmbd -D May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy logger: /usr/sbin/smbd -D May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (198): ps axc | grep -q rpc.mountd May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (198): exit status: 1 May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: Start AFP... May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (199): /etc/rc.d/rc.atalk start |& logger May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy logger: starting appletalk daemons: cnid_metad afpd May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (200): cp /etc/avahi/services/afp.service- /etc/avahi/services/afp.service May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (201): cp /etc/avahi/services/smb.service- /etc/avahi/services/smb.service May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp: shcmd (202): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event svcs_restarted May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy emhttp_event: svcs_restarted May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy avahi-daemon[1930]: Files changed, reloading. May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy avahi-daemon[1930]: Loading service file /services/afp.service. May 29 06:07:27 Galaxy avahi-daemon[1930]: Loading service file /services/smb.service. May 29 06:07:28 Galaxy avahi-daemon[1930]: Service "Galaxy-SMB" (/services/smb.service) successfully established. May 29 06:07:28 Galaxy avahi-daemon[1930]: Service "Galaxy" (/services/afp.service) successfully established. May 29 06:14:08 Galaxy in.telnetd[2205]: connect from 192.168.1.115 (192.168.1.115) May 29 06:14:10 Galaxy login[2206]: invalid password for 'geekess' on '/dev/pts/0' from 'JennMac' May 29 06:14:14 Galaxy login[2206]: ROOT LOGIN on '/dev/pts/0' from 'JennMac' May 29 06:21:07 Galaxy afpd[2163]: deletecurdir: error deleting .AppleDouble in " "
  23. This sure looks like it would be a nice motherboard replacement for my 667mhz RAM and core2duo proc: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/xeon3000/3010/pdsmu.cfm (I recognize the .cfm file extension on this web page.. Cold Fusion--used to develop dynamic web sites with it like 14 years ago wow.. getting old!) Just wondering if I could squeeze it in a full size atx case somehow. two pci-e x8 slots and one pci-e x4 slot /drool.
  24. I have like 500GB copying over to my NAS to disk2 (and the parity drive) which is writing around the normal 20MB/s (since I don't have a cache drive). When I try to get a directory listing off of disk1 it takes forever. IT takes forever to play an MP3 from iTunes from disk1 as well. This doesn't make sense to me because disk1 is on a different channel than disk2 and the parity drive. They all 3 are using the sata ports on the motherboard. So is this a problem with my motherboard? Do I need to upgrade it to a server grade motherboard? Looking at the diagram I see there is a PCIE bus all the pci-e devices share.. perhaps this is a weaker bus on this motherboard than others? (I'm using ASUS P5GC-MX/1333.) I doubt this could be a software or cpu problem because the bottleneck is the pci-e bus and hard drives.. the cpu is plenty fast.. much more than it needs to be .. core2duo 2.6ghz. I'm running 5.0 rc3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8. The 500gb file copy is via AFP and the small reads of itunes music are also via AFP.