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Interesting ok, I actually already had the share that im writing to setup to use high-water. But forgot to mention that I'm actually binding (using bindfs) /mnt/user/share to another path and writing to that instead. I'm guessing that might be why it's not allocating properly. - Chris

Hey all, I don't use user shares to write to my drives as I'm running an ftp server instead. The problem is that i write to /mnt/user/ as opposed to directly to the disk i want, so I'm expecting unRAID to be logical about what drive it should write too. But it doesn't appear to do that. Right now my work-around is to manually move files across the drives so I have an even amount of free space on each drive. But it would be much simpler if there was a way to either manually control what drives get written to (when going through /mnt/user) or actually getting one of the allocation methods to work. Thanks, Chris

I did, the Rosewill RC-218.

Hello all. I'd like to mark this issue solved and give an explanation as to what happened (It annoys me when people don't). After a couple weeks of downtime after my mobo failed on a completely unrelated issue (bios update gone bad), I hooked up the motherboard again with only a few hdds plugged in and the crashes were still occuring, I took out one of the controller cards and after a few days of no crashes i deemed that the culprit, so i replaced the card and now im running all 14 drives with no issues. Thanks for all your help guys. - Chris

What do you guys think about it being a faulty sata controller causing this? I'm also dual booting windows 7, sometimes it recognizes the 3 sata controllers installed in the system, but most of the time one of the controllers (the same one everytime) doesn't even show up in the device manager (last night all 3 cards were recognized, windows 7 crashed sometime in the middle of the night, rebooted, and after rebooting only 2 of the cards were recognized.). I haven't opened the box to see if the 3 drives that got the "hard resetting link" message are all on the same sata card or not, but I have a feeling they are because, according to dmesg, the numbers for each drive are all sequentially "next" to each other (ata9, ata10,ata11). Thanks for all the information about PSU's but I'm just covering all my bases before I go out and start buying replacement hardware to fix the problem. - Chris

Well now that I think about it, the system was running fine for a few hours while the drives were syncing, then it died about 25% in. So i don't think it was an increase in power usage that caused it.

Hey Joe, My PSU is CORSAIR CMPSU-620HX 620W ( http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139002 ). Here are the specs for it: +3.3@24A,+5V@30A,+12V1@18A,+12V2@18A,+12V3@18A,- [email protected],+5VSB@3A. Though I don't see a max combined wattage for those 3 12V rails. Also is there a way to see what cables use which rails? (pardon my ignorance if what I'm asking makes no sense) From what I've read hard drives are powered by the 5V rail so I figured I was set there.

I just started getting this error in dmesg recently after a few weeks of having a stable unRAID system (then I added 2 hard drives which is when the errors started occuring). I'm currently running 13 hard drives on a 620W PSU (+5V@30A) which I'm assuming has enough juice to power all those drives, so I'm not exactly sure what is causing this problem. The following output is from dmesg: ata11: Unable to stop eDMA ata11.00: exception Emask 0x52 SAct 0x0 SErr 0xffffffff action 0xe frozen ata11: SError: { RecovData RecovComm UnrecovData Persist Proto HostInt PHYRdyChg PHYInt CommWake 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS DevExch } ata11.00: cmd 25/00:c0:d7:5e:71/00:03:43:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 491520 in res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x56 (ATA bus error) ata11.00: status: { DRDY } ata11: hard resetting link ata10: Unable to stop eDMA ata10.00: exception Emask 0x52 SAct 0x0 SErr 0xffffffff action 0xe frozen ata10: SError: { RecovData RecovComm UnrecovData Persist Proto HostInt PHYRdyChg PHYInt CommWake 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS DevExch } ata10.00: cmd 25/00:00:17:83:6c/00:04:11:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 in res 40/00:ff:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x56 (ATA bus error) ata10.00: status: { DRDY } ata10: hard resetting link ata9: Unable to stop eDMA ata9.00: exception Emask 0x52 SAct 0x0 SErr 0xffffffff action 0xe frozen ata9: SError: { RecovData RecovComm UnrecovData Persist Proto HostInt PHYRdyChg PHYInt CommWake 10B8B Dispar BadCRC Handshk LinkSeq TrStaTrns UnrecFIS DevExch } ata9.00: cmd 25/00:08:27:95:9c/00:00:31:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 4096 in res 40/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x56 (ATA bus error) ata9.00: status: { DRDY } ata9: hard resetting link - Chris

I've tried 2 flash drives so far, and both times it says Flash GUID: -1 on the devices page instead of the GUID. From what I've read if the flash drive doesn't have a GUID, it would've shown a string of zeros. I should say that I'm unRAID on a hard drive (even though when I did boot the flash drive it still gave me -1 for the GUID). I'm figuring that since I'm symlinking /mnt/usbflashdrive/config to /boot/config that it would still pick of the GUID of the flash drive that is storing the config files. I was planning on paying for the pro version so any help would be much appreciated. - Chris SOLVED: Finally figured it out, the problem was that I didn't name the volume UNRAID when I formatted. Hopefully this helps out anyone else that comes across this issue.

Im fairly sure this will work but I'd like to get confirmation before I dive into the world of Unraid, I want to run an application on the actual unraid server, I just want to make sure that the parity drive notices the files that are being created by the application. So basically, does unraid only work (redundancy-wise) If you send files to the server via SMB or will it work if you run an application on the server itself? Thanks in advance, - Chris