LurkAzusa

Well, your instructions for the swap file and sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=200 did the trick. It was a 1.5T drive on a system with 512 memory. Thanks, you're a lifesaver.

Thanks, Joe L, Im trying the swap file method now and will report back how it worked. If that fails, I will attempt the Ubuntu method.

If I have Ubuntu Lucid running on a Windows 7 dual boot machine with 4G of memory, could I remove the drive and attach it using a SATA to USB adapter and run the commands from there? If I just reboot, will it be ok, but just still missing the files? They are some photos, so I may be able to find them elsewhere.

I attempted the instructions to recover deleted files from disk1. Apparently I don't have enough memory (512) to accomplish this. How do I proceed? Have I lost more than the files I originally deleted? I haven't gone any further at this time. System is in the same state. I've attached todays portion of the syslog and also a file of the commands, as entered. CommandsAttempted.txt syslog_20100627.txt

And mine arrived today. Thanks again!

I'm trying to order licenses, but there isn't anywhere to put the KEY10 Code.

The LAN uses an INTEL 82573E. Jumbo frames are not supported. 17 ASPM/Jumbo Frames Disabled Due to Early Receive Threshold Overrun Buffer Problem: The Jumbo Frames feature uses the Early Receive Threshold (ERT) in the 82573 when ASPM is enabled. When ERT is enabled, Jumbo Frames may possibly corrupt system memory. Implication: This only occurs when ASPM is enabled and is most evident when jumbo frames are used. When the 82573 is performing an ERT (depending on the value set in the ERT register) and a corrupted packet is received, there is the possibility that the 82573 can overrun the buffer that it is accessing the receive data into by up to 256 bytes (size of a PCIe* transaction). This overrun occurs because the 82573 is accessing data into the receive buffer but then aborts the transaction due to the error. The buffer will be re-used for the next receive packet. Workaround: When ERT is disabled, the decreased FIFO size limits the size of available space for receive traffic. Jumbo Frames (up to packet size of 9KB) with software release 10.3 is supported on the 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller as long as ASPM is disabled.2,3 Status: Intel does not plan to resolve this erratum in the 82573 Gigabit Ethernet Controller. Jumbo frames is not supported in 82573E/V & is supported with the workaround above in 82573L.

There isn't clear detail of what motherboard is used in this unit. Here is a link to the pdf of technical information. http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/ss4200-e/sb/CS-028562.htm The unit comes with EMC software on an IDE DOM. I removed it and booted with UNRAID. Used 3 x 1.5tb WD15EADS drives. Holds 4 sata, 2 esata, 4 usb and ide. The only issue after rebooting was the unit tries to boot from the hard drive. I modified the BIOS to reorder the drives to have USB first. That fixed the issue. You can also push the reset and power to boot fom USB. You can access the BIOS by connecting a DTK/INTEL RS-232 and null modem cable. Set connection to 115200/8/1/0 RTS/CTS. I am getting 9.5-10mbs w parity on. It is a good entry level, complete and very quiet all-in-one solution.