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Thank you, this solved my issue.

Good day! I went to bootup my backup raid server and had a cannot mount vfs kernel panic. I copied my config folder and created a new usb stick, copied back my config folder to the usb stick, updated my license and had to also hardcode my /boot/config/network.cfg file in order to get the server backup and running. However, now i keep getting the following once the server is booted: clicking on the link doesn't offer much help, however, here are my diagnostics: iceraidbackup-diagnostics-20260416-0947.zip I do not know what is wrong with this flash drive, do i need to get a new drive and redo the usb flash drive process or is it an issue from copy/pasting config folder?

Thanks for that! My aim is to keep my 'old' server/desktop case in a different location (Cabin at bottom of garden) and put my server rack in the garage with a completely new setup (with a new unraid pro license). So it looks like I can probably buy just two of these: LSI SAS 9300-16I 16 Port Controller HBA Card with PCIe Slot These are quite (£60) cheap - gives me 'more' expansion which I probably won't need and is much cheaper than buying just one of these: BROADCOM 05-25699-00 SAS 9305-24i about £200. and get the correct 6 cables to connect everything up. I am assuming the only advantage to having 1 card over 2 is the number of pci-e slots I need? As they only need x8 then this isn't really an issue either if I just get a board with several pci-e slots in it. I am also looking at making all network connections (where practical) optical with 10Gb cards - I get excited just thinking about it all - quite sad really! Cheers.

Hi All, I am moving away from my 'tower' that has 2 SAS to SATA LSI expansion cards (currently have 16 drives). I am unfamiliar with this 'SFF8643' backplane, that I am assuming is what connects all the disks to the motherboard. I can have a maximum of 24 disks in this case and want to ensure I can support all of these from the start, what sort of PCI card do I need to connect to this backplane (there seems to be 6 connectors with 2 mini-sas in each block: Cheers

I am trying to install the docker 'scrutiny' - however, when the docker tries to install itself i get this error: if I remove from the template the fields that add those two options the docker installs - having read about it, I believe the issue is related to the way the script is using 'pwd' to get a path - unfortunately, i don't know how or what to update to change this. Is anyone able to help me on this? Cheers

Thank you for this post, it wasn't clear to me if it was SAS power connectors that needed this 3rd pin mod or the SATA power connector - with your update about the cable in the box (bought HGST renewed from Amazon too) - used that and my drive started to work - spent a few hours trying the drives in external docks on windows (which just seemed to work) and wondering why it wasn't working in my unraid setup - the cable in the box sorted it, so thanks for that!

thank you. I seemed to have resolved it. I tried this to force it to 10gbps: sudo ethtool -s eth0 autoneg on speed 10000 duplex full which made my server disappear off the network....lol I then performed the tried and tested off/on again (for about the 15th time) but this time I saw on my router it connected at 10gbps and I verified this by logging into the server and checking the dashboard settings. No idea why the command 'seemed' to work after so many resets I previously tried. Cheers

Was this resolved? I recently upgraded to 6.12.4 and I have the same issue that the nic is only connecting to my network at 1gbps instead of 10 - the only thing that has changed is this upgrade of the unraid server.

UPS is highly recommended! I used to have an ubuntu raid6 server, but a power outage destroyed 4 drives so I lost all my data (no backup). Since then I moved to unraid and have a 10+ drive system with a UPS plus another unraid server for backup that has 4 drives (backup stores essential stuff, not movies/tv). I also like the fact that if multiple drives fail you can at least get the stuff of the drives that haven't failed if the failed drives cannot be rebuilt. The UPS has saved me a few times when we had a period of regular and random outages - best few hundred ££ I have spent (except the unraid license of course! )

Thank you for this, yes, the drive was originally part of the other pool, so this explains a lot. A bit annoying as it caused some issues that as a user I would never know. Good to know my understanding of function was correct but now I know what went wrong and not necessarily user error. Cheers ice.

Yesterday evening I created an additional cache pool that I wanted to use only for plex app data. I setup another share called plexAppdata that was set to use only this new cache pool (from the drop down list I could select my nvme cache pool drive, or the ssd cache pool drive) I noticed that this ssd cache pool was mirroring the contents of my nvme cache pool - I assumed because it was a separate cache pool this would not happen - is my understanding not correct? I then went into the settings and 'erased' the ssd cache pool - but this also erased everything on the nvme cache pool. They really were separeate cache pools, both with a slot size of 1. After being extremely annoyed (but i had backups of everything) - I have now had to reformat both drives, added them both back as separate cache pools and now they are not mirroring (the only change i did was to change the ssd cache pool to xfs instead of btrfs). Is my understanding incorrect or did I do something wrong? Cheers ice.

I would highly recommend that you change your transcoding from being on your nvme disk to being in RAM - this can be easily done by changing your plex docker config for the path /transcode to /dev/shm. Really, if you share your plex server and it is used, the number of read/writes is large and you really should be doing this from RAM and not your NVME disk. It could solve your issue too. [edit] to run memtest, when unraid is booting you can stop the boot into unraid and select a memtest. Also, there is generally a memtest faciliy as part of your bios Cheers ice.

I am using 6.10rc2 and just upgraded to the latest 'my servers' plugin - 2022.01.25, since doing that when accessing the GUI the 'my servers' keeps loging in/out, it is very frustrating as I can't update any settings - is anyone else seeing this? Cheers ice

Well....wasn't a dodgy USB drive.....ended up replacing motherboard/cpu and updating everything else as even my ubuntu server installation started resetting so it was definitely an hardware issue as with my new setup ever 6.10rc2 has been more stable than 6.9.2 on my old hardware......sometimes software is NOT the issue! thanks to the forums support and limetech for updating my keys when i used up my online allocation! Cheers ice.

It's looking at though it may have been a dodgy USB drive! Created my server from scratch on another USB and it seems good now - Hopefully it will stay up for more than a few days. I did have to reinstall everything (docker/plugins) but happy it kept all my other data in tact on the drives and I really like the fact I can access the data outside of unraid (eg. mount the drives in ubuntu)! Cheers ice.