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I have 3 of these brand new in the box. They sell for $109 on newegg right now. I would like $90 a piece and I'll pay for shipping in the U.S.

Ok so after about 4 hours I used the shutdown command and restarted and everything is showing up again.

I have a keyboard and monitor hooked up to unraid and it has started. But I don't have any folder access or WebGUI access. I have put the drives in the system but haven't added the drives to the array as I haven't had access to the webgui in order to do so. How do I pull the log from the console? Will unRaid start preclearing the disks even if I have not added them to the array yet?

Is there a way to stop the parity check from the command line? I did a clean shutdown and added some new drives however there was a problem with one of my connections and had to do a hard shutdown. Now I assume it is doing a parity check because I don't have access to the WebGUI or folder access.

I would like to buy all 3 if you still have them. Can I pay you via paypal?

Clearly I meant gb/s not mb/s. Anyway I moved everything over to the controller card and everything seems to be working fine.

Do you still have the processor for sale?

I am having a similar problem what do you define as a weak processor? My write speed directly to the cache is around 60-70mb/s however when I write to the user share which has the cache enabled the speed is more like 10-15mb/s.

So I have a build from 2009 before SATA III was around or cost efficient. The motherboard I have is an MSI P43 Neo3-F LGA 775 Intel P43 ATX Intel Motherboard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130185 it has 8 SATA II ports and a pcie x16 slot I will be using for the SAS2LP-MV8 card. My original intention was to just use the SAS2LP card for my remaining 4 drives. However my question is should I move all my 2T drives to the SAS2LP card since it support 6mb/s transfer speeds and all the 2TB drives are 6mb/s as well? The next question, if I move all my drives to the card, do the forward breakout cables have to specifically say they support 6mb/s?

Thanks as soon as I get the card and everything is good to go I'll mark this thread as solved. By the way what is the command from the terminal to do a speed check on the hard drives?

Ok so I didn't read enough before purchasing the HighPoint Rocket 640L (which does not work with unRaid), so I'm exchanging it for a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 (I should receive in 3 days). My question is the procedure I need to go through to swap out these two cards. Currently the Highpoint has 3 drives connected all 2TB drives. 1 has no data on it, 1 has about 100GB of data and the other is my cache drive. Do I 1) Move all the data off to another drive, then remove the highpoint card run initconfig, then connect the new Supermicro card and the 3 drives and set them up? OR 2) Can I just swap out the card and connect the 3 drives and UnRaid will realize they are the same drive and everything will be fine? Any Advice to make this a smooth transition would be much appreciated.

I have two issues since I have upgraded to 5.04. 1) Syncback pro no longer has access to read and write files. I have SMB enabled with export as Yes and all shares are public. I did create a user but doesn't seem to matter since all shares are public? I can access the shares and read and write to them directly. But when syncback pro tries to read the share it has access denied. (OK so I've been reading some more on the forums and I did not run NewParms, I am doing that now so hopefully it will fix the permissions issues with Syncback Pro) (Update running NewParms fixed the problem with Syncback, I'll open another thread for my poor write speed) 2) Slow write speeds around 8mb/s, previously it was around 20-25mb/s. I thought adding a cache disk would speed this up. I added a new pci-e controller card (see profile for type) with the cache drive and 2 other 2TB disks are on. All shares are set to use the cache drive. I have attached my most current syslog. If you need any thing else to diagnose please let me know. Any help is much appreciated. syslog-20131228-103821.zip

Yes typing in the ip address works and now the drive shows the correct space, so I guess the file check fix worked.

Ok so I have upgraded to v5.04. I ran check disk through the terminal and it found two errors which were fixed. For some reason the array has started but I can not access the web UI using Media/main it just shows a blank white page. I guess it is running a parity check? So this issue could be fixed but from the info below I'm not sure. I ran the cmds suggested Sorry I don't know how to copy the text so I am typing this, pics are too large to upload. fdisk -lu /dev/sdh resulted in Disk /dev/sdh: 2000.4 GB 2000398934016 bytes 1 heads, 63 sectors/track, 62016336 cylinders, total 3907029168 sectors Units = sectors 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000000000 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdh1 63 3907029167 1953514552+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. and /root/mdcmd status | grep -i size Resulted in: Where disk 8 is the one of interest. disksize.8=1953514552 and rdevsize.8=1953514552

OK so I have rebooted several times and it does not fix the issue. I have run a file system check and there were no problems found. So if I disconnect the drive and run initconfig cmd will it rebuild the data that was on that drive onto the other drives?

After I made a bunch of changes in MyMain I did run initconfig and obtained a valid parity without losing any data. I will run the reserfsck cmd to check that disk.

Five more syslogs syslogs.zip

OK so drive 8 is indeed a 2TB drive sorry I did not make that clear in original post. I am also running v4.7 waiting to upgrade to 5 when this is all cleared up. I have looked at my syslog but it just shows me moving a bunch of files off of drive 8. I attached my first 4 syslogs in this email and my next 5 will be in the following email. What do you mean by a newly configured flash drive? I ran the cmd fdisk -l -u /dev/sdh and it shows up as a 2TB drive, but I did get this error Partition1 does not end on cylinder boundary. Not sure how to send that message to a text file if you let me know how I'll do it. I know I did this to myself. What happened was I had a 1TB and the 2TB (drive in question) on a PCI SATA card. The performance was awful, so I decided to get a new PCIe SATA card. In the meantime I had 2 1TB drives on the system that had nothing on them so I removed those 2 1TB drives and connected the 2TB drive to the motherboard. Now I know how to due this properly by running the setinit cmd, however I of course did not do that first. Under the myMain I removed the 2TB and the 2 1TB drives and then created a new drive with the 2TB serial number, hence why I think it is treating it as if I have 4TB of space on that one drive. I have all my data backed up so no worries there. I receive the PCIe SATA card and some addition 2TB drives tomorrow. So should I just remove that drive and put in 1 of the new 2TB drives and let it rebuild. Then I could add the 2TB drive in question back into the array and hopefully it would have forgotten the previous settings? I also just updated my configuration to be current. syslogs.zip

So I know I messed this up but how do I fix it. I removed two 1TB drives because they were on a PCI slot and I'm upgrading them to a PCI express card. However disk 8 was also on the pci card and I moved it to the onboard SATA. In the process I somehow created a duplicate disk of 8. Now it says it is 2TB however the % full is empty and shows negative free space. I think it believes I have 4TB. I know I have around 1TB of data on the drive. Questions: what logs do you need to problem solve this? Any suggestions? How can I move all the data off of Drive 8 and just remove the drive completely? I use teracopy to move files however it does not have permissions to move and delete folders. How do I do this in the unraid cmd prompt? Any help and suggestions would be much appreciated.

Yes I was going to do a backup and then upgrade to 5.0. I'll probably pull the drives first and redo the parity check then upgrade to 5.0.

so from the cmd line everything looked ok. I reran and it was the same so I did a reboot. Everything came online just fine. My parity check so it was completed 11/1/13 9:54 pm with 0 errors. So I guess my question is why it didn't come back online and/or did it complete the parity check? On another note I will shop around for a PCIe card but right now it looks like I can just remove the 2 drives on the system as they are both just 1TB drives and I have 13.5TB total and only using 6.6TB.

I've updated my profile to include my server specs. I think my SATA PCI card may be slowing my system down. I should have gotten a PCI-e card not sure why I didn't since I have both a PCI express x1 and a PCI express 2.0 x16 slot available.

Thanks. As soon as I get home tonight I give that a try. This happens every month but typically it is only down for about 24hrs. Is it typical for access to the server to be down when running a parity check? If not what should I be doing to resolve this? I can send logs tonight if that helps, but if someone could tell me which logs and where they are located that would be helpful.

OK so I'm still running 4.7 and do a monthly parity check which is automated. My problem is when the parity check starts I no longer have access to the server or the unMenu. It has been running since 11/1 and I still have no response from the server. I can log into the server directly but what command can I use to check what is going on? Should I be worried? In the last month I have probably added around 800GB of data.