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  1. I tried to run the make_bootable.bat file in Windows as administrator and it copied over a new syslinux, however, the flash drive would no longer boot. At this point I recreated the flash drive using unetbootin in ubuntu, copied over the 5.0-rc8a image and then restored my config folder. This worked and unRaid booted up just fine. One side note, I am running unRaid on a Supermicro X9SCM-F-O board with dual NICs. First LAN is Intel 82579LM, the second is Intel 82574L. After upgrading to 5.0, I could not get a network connection on the first LAN, had to switch to the second and the networking connections were back. I added my drives back, started up the array and so far, so good. More details about these NICs in this forum post. Thanks to all for your suggestions.
  2. I used gparted in Ubuntu. I did have to rename the drive a second time as the volume drive wasn't named properly the first time. What I'm not understanding is why 4.7 works completely fine on the exact same flash drive, but once I copy over bzimage and bzroot to upgrade, I get the error.
  3. I will give this a shot later today. Just to clarify, doesn't "make bootable" simply make the flash drive a bootable drive? I know the flash drive is booting as I see the default boot loader screen, followed by unraid starting to load along with bzroot and bzimage. The problem occurs during booting once it reaches the "waiting for usb subsystem" error that then continuously loops.
  4. Hello all, I'm trying to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-rc8a. I currently have two disks in a working array on 4.7 along with a cache drive. I have a few other drives in my server that are not currently assigned to the array. I followed the instructions for the upgrade and unfortunately 5.0 will not finish booting. It gets stuck in the process and repeats this error: waiting for usb subsystem I imagine something on my flash drive is causing this error. I've reset the "go" file to the default values and have tried to clear out any unneeded files in the /boot/config folder. However, I'm uncertain as to which files are actually needed to maintain my array and which ones I can get rid of. In my 4.7 setup, the only add-ons I have installed include unmenu and a few packages from there to enable e-mail and screen. Any ideas as to why I'm not able to successfully start 5.0? Here are the contents of my /boot folder: bootls.txt* bzimage* bzroot* config/ ldlinux.sys* license.txt* make_bootable.bat* memtest* memtest-old* menu.c32* packages/ preclear_disk.sh* preclear_reports/ preclear_results121001.txt* readme.txt* syslinux.cfg* syslinux.exe* ubnfilel.txt* ubnpathl.txt* unmenu/ Here are the contents of my /boot/config folder: Plus.key* configls.txt* disk.cfg* go* go~* ident.cfg* network.cfg* secrets.tdb* share.cfg* shares/ super.dat*
  5. Thanks Joe! Since none of these were assigned, I went ahead and started the upgrade. Unfortunately, the system hangs during startup and repeats the message, "waiting for usb subsystem." Has anyone else run into this problem? I've tried to remove any non-stock files from unRaid flash drive, but no luck as of yet.
  6. I'm a new user looking to upgrade from 4.7 to 5.0-rc8a. Since this is a new build, I haven't finished assigning all drives to my array. I have two drives that will probably be swapped out and a third drive that will be assigned as parity. Am I able to proceed with the upgrade? The upgrade instructions clearly state: Important: Only upgrade a server that has all disks enabled with valid parity: no missing disk(s), no disabled disk, etc. Verify everything is working correctly with your current release before proceeding. What issues am I going to run into? Can I proceed after disconnecting the drives that are not in use?
  7. Thanks for the feedback Joe. Your drive appears to be completing the process significantly faster than mine. I did set the block size to 4096, bad idea? Am I better off cancelling this current run and re-starting with the default option(s)? If I remember correctly, I ran the following code: badblocks -wsvb 4096 -o Is there a better/faster way?
  8. Thanks for the tip! I'm currently running badblocks on two 1.5TB WD Green Drives. However, I'm a bit concerned with the time it's taking to run. I started the test approx 36 hours ago and it's still on the reading and comparing phase of what appears to be the first pass (0xaa). I took a screen shot last night and one disk was at 12686860/366284646. This morning, about 12 hours later, the same disk is at 15581348/366284646. Is this normal speed? Based on what I've read, I was expecting it to take a while, just not THIS long. Thoughts? Thanks!
  9. Thanks, tried this but to no avail. Took a look here, but didn't ever see the connection link speed below 1Gbps. Took a look at my NIC properties, didn't see the option to force the speed. Update The problem seems to lie with the source computer, the HTPC, specifically, within Windows. I was able to boot from an Ubuntu live drive, on that same PC, and copy files to the unRaid server at much faster speeds (around 80 MB/sec for a test file a bit over 1 GB in size). This rules out any hardware issues or issues with the server configuration. So the question is, what settings in Windows do I need to change? I'll see what I can come up with. Thanks for the help so far...
  10. Hello all, I am currently migrating data to my new unRaid server build. I'm getting average speeds around 10 MB/sec. Based on reading around the forums, those are normal speeds for a 100Mbps connection, right? I'm running on a gigabit LAN. I don't think these are hardware related issues, but I can't be sure. Here is some pertinent information; can I please get some help figuring out the problem? Thanks! unRAID 4.7 configuration: Supermicro MBD-X9SCM-F-O Intel Core i3-3220 8 GB DDR3 ECC RAM WD 2TB WD20EARX (Data) Seagate 3TB (Parity - Not added to array yet) Seasonic X750 Router: Netgear WNDR3700 unRaid server and HTPC (source) are both connected directly to the router using cat6 cable. Both are confirming 1000 mbps connections. Ethernet Info NIC info (from ethtool) Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 1 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbag Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000001 (1) Link detected: yes NIC driver info (from ethtool -i) driver: e1000e version: 1.0.2-k2 firmware-version: 2.1-2 bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 Ethernet config info (from ifconfig) eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:90:7f:3b:2c inet addr:192.168.23.10 Bcast:192.168.23.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:209313367 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:85927013 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:933211834 (889.9 MiB) TX bytes:593262879 (565.7 MiB) Memory:f7900000-f7920000 Syslog attached. syslog.txt
  11. Per your recommendations, I decided to go ahead and start copying over the network. I'm seeing slightly slower speeds than I expected, but that is for another thread. I decided to hold off on the parity for the time being, but I'll be sure not to delete any data until I've done this step. Thanks for the responses!
  12. First off, thanks to all of the forum participants! I'm almost up and running on my first unRAID build due largely to all the useful information in this forum! My dilemma: Copy data from a Windows HTPC to new unRAID server (running 4.7). Windows box has two 1.5 TB drives setup in RAID 0 (hardware). One of the two drives in the raid 0 setup has bad sector(s). unRAID: Currently has two drives, one 3TB to be used for parity, one 2TB to be used for data. The drives have been precleared and I'm ready to build my array (neither has been assigned to an array yet). I have read posts suggesting that the parity drive be added to the array prior to any copying, but I'd like to copy the buik of the data before adding the parity drive in an effort to copy as quickly as possible. I would then add the parity drive to the existing array before deleting any data on the existing drives. 1) Can I add a drive to an array, format to ReiserFS using unRAID, pull the drive out, connect to HTPC and copy files directly (most likely using a live ubuntu drive)? Would this cause issues with the preclear or problems when adding the drive back to my unRAID box? 2) Is it better to copy directly over the network and wait it out? Alternatively, should I copy using an external drive as an intermediary? 3) Since one of the RAID 0 drives has caused issues in my Windows HTPC, I'm a bit worried about the system hanging when copying files. Is there a recommended program to use for copying files from a drive with bad sectors? I use TeraCopy in Windows and have read about ultracopier for linux, but I'm not sure how either will do when/if they encounter bad sectors. 4) If possible, I would like to use both 1.5 TB drives from my HTPC in this setup. I realize this may not be a good idea due to bad sectors on one of them and I may be left with one good drive. Depending on the number of bad sectors, could the bad disk still pass preclearing and be used for the unRAID array? Am I crazy to consider using a disk that already has bad sectors? I'm not sure how badly the drive is doing at the moment. Sorry if the post was too wordy... Thanks again!