Please Help- Thanks
Good News/ Bad News
I have increased the storage to just short of 3 terabytes.
As long as I had only 6 HD's- 2 on MB IDE (Secondary) and 4 on Promise 133TX2- All worked well.
Since I added a second Promise 133 TX2 the system has become a bit less reliable when it comes to being seen on the network.
I have tried many settings in the Bios, moving the Promise cards to different PCI slots, increasing the PS to 500 ANTEC NEO, replaced one 300gig seagate that would not report temp.,downgraded video card to 64mb ATI 7200.
Symptoms: Different combinations- PWR up.
-No problems all works and visible on the network in both IE and via network neighborhood. Shutdown properly via browser. PWR up no problems, but when it fails....
-PWR UP-Fails to get video. Hit reset (not pwr button) 3 seconds later, full boot. reads mem, 2 drives on secondary.
Promise and all the other 7 drives, either reads the flash or not - if it does, then it boot and I can log into the root. Go to the browser, able to see the unraid configuration. Attempt to via windows explorer/ network neighborhood. No go. Go to console for unraid and type poweroff. Use pwr button. Reboot still not working.
Temporary solution I have found is to pull power cable to PS, pull and reconnect network cable, sometimes reseat the flash, then power back up. If the boot and network comes up good, UNRAID works like a charm. All the parity stuff works well, data transfers are great etc...
Questions:
1. Is there a way to reset all the network settings for the Unraid via Windows Terminal?
2. Is there a better version of Unraid 3.0 beta 2 available?
3. Using the Nvidia network port, MB has 3COM and NVidia 100mbit network ports. Appears that the drivers are in Unraid for the Nvidia only- Possible to use #COM instead?
4. In your opinion is this a hardware issue, IRQ/ DMA conflict, software UNRAID?
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe BIOS 1007
2 GIG Corsair Value RAM (2x1gig -400mhz mem)
ATI 7200 64mb video
2 Brand new Promise 133TX2 cards - new flat cables.
All drives Seagate
4x500gig (Parity is on of the 500gig)
5x300gig
Using the NVidia onboard network port.
Bios has both network ports and firewire set to AUTO.
Boot set to CDROM (None Installe) / ZIP.
I just need to not have a worry around the ability to see the tower on the network.