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thanks weebo, yes not sure where I came up with the pci-x idea. I think I have blurred vision since I have been reading reviews and specs for the past few days and getting confused - lol. edited the first post. Thanks, Dave

I decided to run 5b14 to get support for 3TB and I am 19hours (15% of post-read currently) into my 1st pre-clear cycle on a wd 3.0TB EZRX (not jumpered) it is averaging 105-111 MB/s on the mainboard sata 6G/B I/O. AN FYI - I opted for this board due to the fact it had 3 pci slots and I have two pci Promise TX300 4 port controllers in my old server but more research has revealed the pci-e slot are x16 and x4, the -evo counterpart to the board has 3 pci-e and two pci slots and those are x8x8 and a x4 but has a 140$ rough price tag. I got the pro board for $119 and 15$ rebate locally no shipping and I think it will still support two pci-x4 controllers if need be. rgds, Dave

I am in the midst of building my new server and in my old machine i have two PCI Promise tx300 4 port cards and they were pricey when I bought them a few years back, I am wondering how much of a difference I will see by using a supermicro saslp pci-e in the new machine compared to just re-using the promise cards. this new Asus F1A75-V Pro has 2 pci-e slots x16 and x4 and 3 pci slots the same board in the -evo model actually has 3 pci-e 2 at X8 speeds and 2 pci. so I was thinking I may be able to add a saslp AND use my promise cards at the same time. Dave

I just started a preclear on a new 3tb drive and this is a new server with 1 3tb and 3 new 2tb I installed the setup on 5b14. It is running at about 122mb/s on the 3tb right now. Is it possible to run preclear on at least one of the other drives concurrently in a new telnet window. sorry if this has been asked before. thanks, Dave

I downloaded the latest, sensors-detect script and ran it on this board. (if you are not aware you need perl installed to run sensors-detect, easiect to use unMenu to install it.) mkdir /boot/sensor (I did this from the flash share in W7) cd /boot/sensor wget http://www.lm-sensors.org/svn/lm-sensors/trunk/prog/detect/sensors-detect perl /boot/sensor/sensors-detect (make sure you use this line to run the latest version you downloaded or you will run the old version that is the /usr path.) the it87 driver and the k10temp driver are required for this board. They should be in the 2.6.38 kernel for the k10temp (12h and 14h families) driver and the it87 driver should be in the 2.5 through 3.3 kernel depending on which version. It cannot load the modules with the current 4.7 kernel used; I read in another post they may be in the vanilla kernels but not necessarily in the unraid built kernel versions. Any help on this would be great, can we dwnld the std alone drivers and build the modules without recompiling the kernel I know this is like a NO but I have to try. LOL. The version of lm-sensors in 4.7 is 3.03. I hope that 3.3.1 gets built into the newest unraid (please Tom) I am still debating on user share setup to report on clearing and transfers speeds. rgds, Dave

HI All, I know this has been posted a million times on user shares, I have read the wiki many times and serached the forums as well and I am still trying to get my head around the proces..any help would be great. On my system - 16 drives. 2tb to 1tb. and I would like this scenario MEDIA --- ---Movies - Movie folder - span ---HDMovies - HD Movies Folder - span ---TV shows - TV show Folder - Seasons - per drive - Not spanned ---Music - artist folders - DISC 7 only ---HDmusic - artists - disc7 only I am confused about setting this all up and where to place the folders or to copy the info once the setup is complete. Would I create the MAIN Music directory and HDMusic directory outside of the MEDIA directory on disc 7 Thanks, Dave

I plan on rebuilding my original 15 Drive Unraid server, that has served me well for a long time, I think I was a customer before the forums were even started - User shares were not thought of yet; neither was a cache drive or many of the great new features of the Unraid system. I now have a tons of doubles in my server from adding HD versions of the movie and I want to remove those as well. I picked up the Asus F1A75V-Pro for a few reasons after three or 4 days of research. bleeding edge I was a little concerned but I know that 5 final is around the corner. The cpu is the A3500 and I chose 2x4GB Kingston 1600 ddr-3 really on price at 25$ on sale you cannot complain. All this is overkill I know but the feature set was worth it. I installed a Corsair TX750 PSU as well. Why I picked up the board. ATX Size 3 PCI 2 Pcie x1 6 Sata 6Gb Ports ASUS Header (White) 1 Sata 6Gb (BLUE) Asmedia Controller (Supports AHCI, IDE and SATA mode in the bios) Realtek Lan 1GB (tested with 4.7 and 5.0 b14 so far with no issues) 10 USB 2.0 (2 on back panel under the lan connector - You must use one of these to boot from) AMD USB 3.0ports (blue on back panel) Work after OS is installed (do not use for unraid flash) ASUS MEM OK (diagnose ram when installed prior to booting up) ASUS TPU Switch ASUS EPU Switch (scaled power saving) Digi+ VRM from the two onboard processors above (EPU and TPU) All in the digital domain, instant powersaving and stability We will see if it all works out. In the bios I disabled (set to advanced for the old style bios look and disable the flash screen) disable all the features not used audio, etc... disable all boot choices but #1 Set sata ports to AHCI (did not like this on the single Asmedia (blue) ports set them all back to IDE. (I will play around some this afternoon and report back on the modes) Set to boot USB flash (was nearly automatic- bios found it immediately and you have a choice of std or eufi mode, I chose the STD mode.) Formatted a fresh Kingston USB Flash and loaded up 4.7 I changed some network settings in the config file so it would not conflict with my other servers. I changed the name of the server to TEST for this session. Rebooted and VOILA it's running - I ran memtest for a couple passes first to make sure ram was good (ran it much longer overnight) Installed (Unmenu, Perl, powerdown, APC Control, openssl and ssh) And all items functioned as they should. my issues came when I was trying to get sensor info from this board. I am not sure which version of lm-sensors or sensors-detect 4.7 has but it would not detect a chip on this board - No How. Off I went to try one of the 5.0 beta's I looked for 6a but it has been removed so I downloaded b14. I first just copied over the bz files to the flash and did not disable any add-ons that was a no go. The board booted and loaded Unraid fine but I could not access the Unmenu or Unraid web gui's nor could I access my flash drive from my win7 x64 desktop. I formatted the flash and reinstalled 5b14 clean and rebooted and voila no issues. I got the Unraid web screen (I have no drives in this system therefore no array, and I could not run the permissions which is why I believe I could not access the flash from windows7. I just went into the flash drives properties on Win7, cleared it's state and re-activated the share within win7 and voila I have access. I proceeded to install all the same add-ons from above and they all functioned fine but again I hit the lm-sensors roadblock (I am not sure if sensors-detect and lm-sensors is the newest version in 5.0 with almost the latest kernel, but I still cannot get a sensor chip detected on this board. (I will do some google research and report back on this) I have to layout a gameplan to rollout this new server, as I am building from scratch but moving all the files from my existing server over to the new drives, removing some redundancy in movie files and re-encoding my dvd-rips to x264 at the same time; finally setting up user shares and adding a cache drive (which I think the extra sata port will be good for at this point anyhow) (Tom if you read this I have one issue (both of my keys are used up on my two servers, I am taking down my main media server to replace it with this new one so how can I build this new server (adding more than three drives) then copy my prokey to this new flash setup from the old. I need to do this in stages and not really wanting to purchase another key when I already have the two.) I plan on adding some drives and get started this afternoon on this project, I will post some transfer speeds and more on reliabilty. I am not sure how to test power related items, if someone want to give me a quick run down I would be happy to do so and post the results as well. More to come...

Hey All, Happy New Year. I was checking out my go script this morning and I see this line which I have not seen before. I just upgraded to 4.7 a couple days ago and I am trying to inncrease copy speeds from win7 64. On that note, can a cache drive be installed if I DO NOT have user shares. attached is a pastebin syslog with a pwrdown issued if you see anything weird please advise as I have some new 2TB drives to install... cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c http://pastebin.ca/2099547 Thanks, Dave

Hey All, So I have been diagnosing some issues today and I checked the bios and came across this for CPU speed and temp 65535 speed and -.5c temp. I updated to the latest 0902 bios as per the wiki and Asus special instructions on the web-site and no change. I also changed the cpu from the celeron to a 7300 C2D I had lying around in the cabinet with a new fan and still no difference. Is this just a bios thing, can I load coretemp or real temp or some other utility barring that what is the latest and greatest board with 8 sata slots and 2 pci slots to use. This is the only issue I can find I ran memtest all afternoon on my patriot 2x1024 800 and no problems found. Thanks, Dave

Hey All, I have a pretty stable 4.3.3 final setup with 14 disks and just upgrade two 2TB parity yesterday, there are a few things I would like from 4.5, Is there anything I should do or be prepared for in advance of upgrading. Thanks, Dave

forget this - I solved the issue. Regards, Dave

Hey all, I am playing around with LinuxMCE and it has it's own DHCP built in to service it's client on the internal lan. Well my unraid server is on My Windows network inside my dlink routers scope and I was wondering is it possible to install a 2nd nic in the server and configure that nic with a different ip in a different subnet. Basically it would be serving to sub-nets.