Hi,
Following on from my earlier thread testing the P5B-E motherboard, I have bought a 500GB SATA drive, and I am now trying to setup my first working unRAID system to test.
I'm using the 4.0beta-7 with the following hardware:
Asustek P5B-E mobo with 6 x onboard ICH8R SATA (+2 JMicron SATA)
Onboard Attansic L1 GigE
Celeron D 3.06Ghz 533FSB 512M Cache
1GB DDR2 DRAM (2x 512MB G.Skill CL4)
Cheap as I could find PCI-e Video card (XFX NVidia 7100GS)
Seagate 500GB 16MB Cache SATA Drive
My question is, how many hard drives are needed to get started?
Seems like a simple question, but I can't find an answer anywhere, only a reference to not needing a parity drive. Although, I know that for a normal RAID5 system, you need 3 drives to get started.
Based on the post mentioning that you don't need a parity drive, I assumed I should be able to startup unRAID with only a single drive (allocated as Data Disk 1), with no parity drive allocated yet (on the assumption that when I get a couple more drives, I would add a second Data drive and then the Parity drive).
However, when I allocate the only drive as Data Disk 1, and click Start, the web page shows that the drive is "mounting"I assume it is formatting the drive at this time). This stays like this for maybe 10 minutes or more when I come back and refresh the page, and I can also hear disk activity. But then if I come back a little later and refresh the page, I get no response (ie. the web server is not responding).
If I logon to the console as root, the server is still responding (ie. has not locked up), so I can shutdown successfully etc.
If I restart the system, I am back at square one!
Any ideas what I am doing wrong? Or is it a problem caused by only having one drive attached? Do I need to go and buy a couple more drives to get started (although I would prefer to test all is operating with one drive first - if possible).
TIA