sainttjames

Just to leave a trail of (hopefully) useful information to those brave souls who wander in here... Bummed from not being able to use those IDE drives laying around...i wandered over to newegg and bought this.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822998008 attaching to the SATA connection and my old IDE drive... unRAID booted up and is currently doing it's parity synch @ > 60,000kbs -james

Good call JK! I pulled a mirrored disk off my main machine (knocking on wood) and threw it in the unRaid server... 57,000 - 65,000Kbs w00t~ now...i just need to put the IDE drives back in and see if they give me the same problems as before... -james Add: Well it looks like the IDE drivers are not there....adding the two IDE drives drops the parity speed back to 1,300-1,500Kbs looks like it wants to be a SATA only machine...

JK, I have some in another pc...but they got data on them I'll go out and buy a SATA drive tomorrow...ultimately it will get used...I just wish it would get used in this...as it is starting to look like it's not going to happen... Hey! Thanks for stopping by - btw... -james

more info for someone who might know something hda name value min max mod ---- ----- --- --- --- acoustic 0 0 254 rw address 1 0 2 rw bios_cyl 24321 0 65535 rw bios_head 255 0 255 rw bios_sect 63 0 63 rw breada_readahead 8 0 255 rw bswap 0 0 1 r current_speed 0 0 70 rw failures 0 0 65535 rw file_readahead 124 0 16384 rw init_speed 0 0 70 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw lun 0 0 7 rw max_failures 1 0 65535 rw max_kb_per_request 128 1 255 rw multcount 16 0 16 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw nowerr 0 0 1 rw number 0 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 0 0 1 rw wcache 0 0 1 rw

a couple of screenshots...the drives are in UDMA5 mode...so that rules out this being a PIO issue I suppose... /dev/hda: Model=ST3200822A, FwRev=3.01, SerialNo=3LJ08R1C Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2: * signifies the current active mode root@Tower:~# hdparm -i /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Model=WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6R4443213 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78165360 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: device does not report version: * signifies the current active mode

well a full day of trying multiple configurations...and nothing worked. of note: removing one drive allowed the parity check to approach the 4,500-5,000kbs range tried 4 different cables...3 were the same...one didn't work (binned it) tried multiple jumper settings on the hard drives...nothing... fwiw...this is UnRaid 3.1b2 will give this a go over the next couple of days...then who knows ...would really like for it to work. -james

Thanks TCIII...i *thought* i had tried that initially...but (knowing how my brain works) I'll set them up that way now. addendum: I changed the jumpers to CS, and aside from unRaid complaining that the largest drive must be in the '1st position' (which i changed)...I am back to square one...~1,700kbs I notice when unRAID is booting up I see it attempting to start SAMBA a message pops up as follows: /proc/scsi/scsi extensions not found would this have any bearing on my predicament? reaching for straws, James

fwiw...this board works... -needed to change USB speed to Fast mode from High-Speed mode in bios. My problem now seems to be the speed at which the parity drive is getting synched...~1,700kbs...telling me >30 hours for a 200gb drive. I've played around with the jumper settings on the drive. (it is connected as Pri Master, while a 40gb drive is connected as Pri Slave) but so far no joy. If anybody has any suggestions please feel free to post them In the meantime I'll putz around with this for the rest of the day... -james

Thanks JK...that's what I think as well going off the search criteria you had listed previously in this thread. Unfortunately...I found this post... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=100.msg595#msg595 Not sure if this was a specific error on the users part or more generally the board is unusable... -james

Hi, I am very interested in using this software to build a storage server utilizing the extra AMD chip I have lying around. Could anybody kindly provide some input on whether the following two boards would work with unRaid? ASUS A8N-VM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131570 Asus A8n-SLI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517 I gather the A8n-VM might work given jknight's postings above...I searched on that criteria. Any help would be appreciated. -James