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gabbott, I have updated the transcode.zip file in the instructions. I did have ffmpeg on my system. I don't know how it was excluded when I was writing the the guide Thx teejay for the help!

Hey, sorry I have not been keeping up on this thread. The tutorial is meant to be a guide when I was starting out learning unRaid/Linux. Subsonic was a MUST have and I looked into running it on unRaid even before ordering parts. I'm glad everyone likes it. Let me know if I need to adjust anything in the instructions. Kryspy, You can always run the the script to copy the subsonic DB to your persistent memory location (eg USB). My Subsonic install is pretty much the same as the instructions except I moved a few tasks around. All is working well on SS v4.1 currently.

HAHA, one commenter... "Store all of your data on the one drive and pray to your chosen deity that it doesn't Vail."

I just want to report back on my failed attempt to properly set up the two WD15EARS drives I have. I removed one disk on the devices page and powered down. I then put the jumper on and booted up. The server would not start (after 20min waiting). I disconnected the drive from the system and the server booted up. Since my server is headless and I do not have a monitor, I used my LG HDTV to see what was going on. If the jumper is on and the disk is connected the screen showed errors like posted by the OP for about 10min and then got to a login prompt. I booted the system from a USB drive with Ultimate Boot Disk on it to zero out the drive while it was still in the system (I'm lazy and don't have backplanes). All 4 of the wiping utilities would not even start. I just got some garbled text at the point where it looks like its iterating the drives. I assume there was a problem because the drives are connected to SATA cards. Maybe ACHI mode in the BIOS, I don't know. I took the drive out and put it in a USB Dock connected to a Windows XP machine. I started the WD align tool and it said the drive was aligned correctly. Nothing to do there. Again I ran the Ultimate Boot Disk. The estimated time was around 27hrs and it was still at 0.0% after 30min (that can't be right). I stopped the process. I would take all week to zero the drive, pre-clear with the jumper on, and then let the server rebuild the data. I still had to rebuild the data. I don't get any parity sync errors and the server runs flawlessly for months since I added those drives. It was late, I gave up. Other thoughts: 1. Maybe I could have pre-cleared the drive (no zeroing first) when the server finally came up while connected to my TV. 2. Maybe the USB Dock was limiting in some way and I need to hook the drive to a SATA port on a motherboard to improve speed.

I'm having the same exact errors when I put the pin on a drive that has been working in my system for months. I don't get any parity errors, but want my system to be setup correctly. Right now, I can't get to the unRaid Control Page when the pin is on. I run headless and after hooking up a monitor I was seeing those type of errors. It eventually gets to a logon prompt. I will try zeroing out the drive. Like other have suggested first and report back.

Do any options (using v0.98) need to be changed from default when pre-clearing Advanced Format drives?

Hi Joe, Is there any guides to better lock down unRaid? Even though I can write simple scripts compile my own libs for unRaid, I'm still noobish with all of it. How do you see these ID's? Can these be removed and just have root? This means that my router is the only line of defense for me. Thanks for the loss of sleep now

By adding a root password fixes this mostly, correct?

Not sure if this affects unRaid, but just in case... http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/09/20/0217204/Linux-Kernel-Exploit-Busily-Rooting-64-Bit-Machines (please delete post if irrelevant)

How does having disks in the server triple the cost per GB?... offline costs = disk costs online costs = disk costs + chassis + MB + RAM + CPU + Flash + unraid lic + PSU + cables + power if actually add it up it really mounts up So your current server is completely full? Can't you increase one of the HDDs to a larger one? Use the drive you took out as an off-site backup. I planned my server for a total of 12 drives. If I filled it with 2TB drives that would be 22TB (11 - parity)*2). I can't image me needing that kind of space, but I'm set for a long time.

How does having disks in the server triple the cost per GB? I wouldn't think it possible to have the USB drives protected by the parity drive. Why make it any bit harder than it has to be? Just put a bunch of cheap drives in your server, and forget about it. If you case has USB ports, simply plug an external drive in and mount it (with a script even). Then your Buffy episodes will be available. Maybe the coffee hasn't kicked in yet. Is your PSU not powerful enough for the number of drives you have/will buy?

I ended up getting the Kantek Mobile CPU Stand. It's a great stand and the price is great too. I like that it collapses and it feels very steady. The case can slide a little when pushing on carpet, but I think that can be easily Macgyver'd with some furniture pads on the stand or something. Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure...

Thanks, My scripts is like that.. 0 19 * * * /boot/scripts/subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

Hogwind, #1 You can stop subsonic by killing the process that looks like below. /usr/lib/java/bin/java -Xmx256m -Dsubsonic.home=/var/subsonic/data... I also included subsonic_stop.sh script which reads the SUBSONIC_PIDFILE=/boot/subsonic/PID.txt path that was set in step #5 (file subsonic_RAM.sh). #2 There is my one the cron_subsonic_copy_from_memory.sh file which is set in step #7. As Joe L said, I'm 99% sure I'm not sending anything to to stdout or stderr output. The script just adds a job line to the crontabs for the current user. Glad you like the setup. I wish I was advanced enough to make a install package for this process.

Thanks all. I'm still learning.

I do remember seeing some topics for this on the subsonic forums. The subsonic developer is really good at responding to posts on the forum

Just a note. If parity is not running, you need to add the -a option to grep if [ $(/root/mdcmd status | grep -a Resync= | cut -c10) == '0' ] then echo "### Parity NOT running ###" fi

SCSI, Thanks for the feedback.

Sorry I missed your post. Were you able to get it working? When you modified the subsonic.sh file and saved it as subsonic_RAM.sh (Step #5), make sure you have the line that tells where subsonic should save the DB correct... SUBSONIC_HOME=/var/subsonic/data This will also fix having to move the transcode folder too.

ClunkClunk, The version out-of-date is fixed now. I'm still able to re-encode an mp4 and the audio works. My normal encodes are ~1.5gig (full resolution). I really wanted the audio bug fixed when re-encoding for portable viewing like my on my Droid. Converting an ISO, I had to change the "--Longest" switch in my script, but seems to work. Thanks again. A few changes that I feel are worth mentioning: Changeset 3268: add --main-feature title selection option (replaces -L longest title selection option) Changeset 3265: Fix an issue with the CLI version check logic. Changeset 3205: fix audio clipping when downmixing and output codec is lame On a side note, I upgraded the AMD Sempron 140 with a quad core Athlon II X4 635 in my unRaid. The single core preformed impressively well, but I wanted some more power for Handbrake. My encodes went from 10 fps (~4hrs) to 36 fps (~1hr) per movie. It's overkill for Slackware, but I might run a vm server in the future and this will definitely help.

Thanks ClunkClunk! I was able to encode the same MP4/AAC to a smaller mp4 file and the audio was correct this time. I have not tested this version will an ISO yet. One thing I noticed was the version seems to old when checking for a newer version... root@unraid:~# HandBrakeCLI -u [10:01:01] hb_init: checking for updates [10:01:01] Using http://handbrake.fr/appcast_unstable.xml [10:01:02] latest: 0.9.4, build 2009112300 [10:01:02] hb_init: checking cpu count [10:01:02] hb_init: starting libhb thread HandBrake svn3282 (2009110401) - Linux i686 - http://handbrake.fr You are using an old version of HandBrake. Latest is 0.9.4 (build 2009112300).

ClunkClunk, Thanks so much for compiling a newer version of Handbrake. I’ve encountered a similar problem as reported here which sometimes produces garbled audio when encoding a MP4/ACC file. I do this to reduce the file size of a mp4 file for playback on a portable device. Some movies encode fine while others have audio that sounds like a record player spinning slowly. The same problem happens weather I encode on windows or unRaid (I'm playing the files in VLC). Handbrake-svn3154 still has the issue. I tried to compile my CLI and get the following error when trying to retrieve the svn: svn: error while loading shared libraries: libaprutil-1.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Would you compile Handbrake-svn3205 (or above) package for us novices?

Thanks for the quick reply. Executing /root/mdcmd status | grep Resync gives me one of the two result (while parity is running) in telnet... Binary file (standard input) matches OR mdResync=1465138552 mdResyncPos=1029122472 mdResyncPrcnt=70.2 mdResyncFinish=86.7 mdResyncSpeed=83788 I'm a novice at scripting, but not a total n00b. Could you help a little more with the code? #!/bin/bash if [ $(/root/mdcmd status | grep Resync) -ne 0 ] then echo "Parity running" else echo "Not Running" fi

I've written a script that will run an encoding job with Handbrake whenever a file is found in a certain directory. Everything works great. I also check to make sure HandbrakeCLI is not already running before queuing any new file in the directory. I would also like to prevent the encode queue if the parity check is currently running. How can I check this in a script? Many thanks I'm using unRaid 4.5

It looks like the fan that comes with the IcyDock is a 80x80mm fan. When removed, the wires are sodered to the pins on the fan box on the back. I hate when companies make non-standard parts. IcyDock thinks that people will order a fan part from them for the plug-n-play factor. I guess I could disable the fan alarm and use a regular 80x80mm fan and wire it to the MB.