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Thanks, gridrunner, always useful guides.

Has anyone tried any of the socket 1150 xeon cpu's in this gigabyte Z87-OC mobo at all?

I just re-booted my server, and had a look in the bios, it looks like vt-d is supported, but the option to change it is obviously greyed out, because of the 4770K installed.

Prices here in the U.K. for the 4790 are around £215 pounds second hand.

Hi there, I have at the moment an I7-4770K cpu in my Gigabyte Z-87-OC motherboard that i use for my main Unraid server. Could anyone suggest an equivalent or better cpu, i.e. a 4770 non k cpu, so that i can use full virtualization with my system please. Pricing is also an important point, as until i can free up/replace the 4770k to sell, my funds are limited.

Many thanks for the link johnnie.black, would anybody have any opinions whether it is better to flash the 310 with the Lsi firmware, or whether it is best to stick to flashing with the Dell firmware? It seems from what people have said, there is no performance loss or gain between the two, just that the Dell firmware is easier to flash.

Hi There, I have just purchased a Dell Perc H310 8 port controller card, to replace my current Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 whilst in the process of upgrading. Is there anyone who could point me to a current I/T flashing guide, and firmware download links for flashing the H310 to prepare it for use with Unraid 6.1.3 please. I have available a PC with a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC mobo to flash it, or i could flash it in my current Unraid mobo, a Gigabyte GA-870A-USB3L, (I will be upgrading my Unraid system to the GA-Z87-OC with a I7 4770K and 16gb Corsair ram,very soon, and will be using the Supermicro card as a secondary card with it too. I'm looking forward to trying VM's at last, lol). Many thanks.

Hi All, just noticed a spelling mistake in the help file in the afp settings Help page: " The netatalk documentation includes a strong warning to not use symlinks anywhere in a file system being exprted via AFP." Should that read "exported" ?

Just set up an irc client, and am on now. Great idea for instant help. It will probably be of use to most unraid user's to be able to get some instant advice, and to save a panic situation (had a few of these in the past lol.)

The end of your attached syslog has a lot of REISERFS warnings and errors on md6 and md12. Also, your flash drive hasJun 29 07:38:26 Tower kernel: FAT-fs (sda1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck. Hi trurl, Thanks for that, im still in the process of checking the 12 drives in my system. Its taken me over two days to get round to checking them all, (I'm on disk 8 at the moment), and doing them sequentially. Funny about the flash drive, i have never had any problems with it before, will check that at the end of the Reiser checks too.

Will Do a check on all drives and will report back here when all drives checked.

Hi itimpi, yes i have re-booted windows, i have also checked net access from a Mac laptop too, still no joy, the shares will open, but inside is blank, no directory's or files. You might want to check the permissions on the server. If in doubt rerun the New Permissions utility. You could also clear any cached credentials at the Windows level. Have you tried looking to see if the files show up OK via the unRAID Web GUI? What security setting do you have for the share? Security for this and other smb shares is set to Private, User access. The files/directory's do not show up under the shares web gui page either. but they do show under the main page, when individual drives are browsed, but there seems to be problems, as some directory's are showing "0 byte" empty sizes and Last modified date "Unset" Would this be a permissions problem that would be solved with running the permissions script, or could it be disk corruption at all, as looking at the syslog, there are a lot of reiserfs errors?

Hi itimpi, yes i have re-booted windows, i have also checked net access from a Mac laptop too, still no joy, the shares will open, but inside is blank, no directory's or files.

Hi All, I have a problem, discovered this morning, Last night After Disk 6 failed with red ball, i did the disk swap and parity rebuild onto the new 2 tb drive, now when i look at my shares from my pc, there seems to be a lot of data missing. for example my "Share1" media share now seems to my windows machine to be totally empty. I have checked using midnight commander on unraid system , that all my data drives "seem" to have the data still there under the individual drives. System is just booted, i have not done anything to it. could anyone please help with a suggestion what to do now please. syslog.txt

You might want to try looking at this post:

I believe that all modern disks with write caches support a way to flush the cache; in SCSI (and SAS) this is the SYNCHRONIZE CACHE SCSI command. Of course this has the usual drawback that it flushes even data that you may not care about and not need to be committed to disk right now. As I discovered yesterday, drives can also support a write option called 'Force Unit Access' (FUA) that bypasses the write cache in order to force what you're writing to be forced to disk. In general FUA is bundled with another feature called 'Disable Page Out' (DPO), which tells the drive that putting the data into cache is not useful. (DPO and FUA can also be used on reads, apparently, but I haven't looked into that at all.) Historically, FUA support has apparently been common and well done in SCSI (and SAS) drives and SAS drivers routinely support it. FUA support in ordinary SATA drives was apparently a chancy thing in the beginning and as a result Linux's SATA driver still defaults to pretending that drives do not support FUA (and I believe DPO) regardless of what the actual drive reports (other OSes may behave similarly). How SATA drives behind a SAS controller behave and how your SAS controller driver treats them is probably an interesting question that you may want to check for yourself if you have such a setup.

Hi All, Bracket arrived today, Very well packed, complete with fitting screws. very satisfied with their service. Would recommend to anyone living in the U.K. with a bracketless BR10i.

I just found out about these on Ebay and have ordered one in the U.K. Cost in U.K. Pounds £6.56 with just over £4 postage. will let you all know how long it takes to get from the states to the U.K. once it arrives. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/261187381936?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649

Can you get to a command line at all? If so you could clear the mbr of the disk in question with the following: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/xxx count=1 bs=512 Where xxx is your hard drive letter (probably something like: /dev/sdc) Then try to preclear.

Hi bravob, I have been using the freeware linux reader from DiskInternals http://www.diskinternals.com/download/Linux_Reader.exe

I have had this error as well, Go onto the main configuration page in your browser using //tower select the flash drive settings, you should just click on where it says "flash" under all your drives Check that the export setting is set to Yes and security public