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I swapped out the cable with a newer one and it is connecting at 1000mb/s Full duplex now. root@Queeg:/boot/packages# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes root@Queeg:/boot/packages#

It's connected to 100/1000Mbps switch. The lead is older. I'll try trading it out to see if that helps.

I want to be able to monitor my network bandwidth sometimes. But I'm a linux newbie and can't figure out how to install it. installpkg didn't like the file. I saw this post. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1205.0 It's here also. http://www.gropp.org/?id=projects⊂=bwm-ng

Does file fragmentation have much of an effect on unRAID performance?

I telnet into my unRAID server and typed "ethtool eth0". It looks like the nic is only set to 100MB. Since this is a newly built server am I supposed to configure the network device? root@Queeg:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes root@Queeg:~#

I found a multicolor LED but so far I don't know much more. http://hackaday.com/2009/06/29/parts-shiftbrite-rgb-led-module-a6281/

Please update the Hardware Compatibilty page with this information right away. The Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 is listed as having 6 sata ports. As of revision 4 of that board will have only 4 sata ports. No revision 3.0 stock is available for purchase either at Newegg or Gigabyte.

I contacted Newegg to discuss the RMA. Results are not great. They state: 1. they cannot guarantee revision on items. 2. The technical information tab is provided by the manufacturer unedited by Newegg. They allowed my RMA to be for refund and are waiving the restocking fee. I still have to pay return shipping. I'm kinda bummed out. I called Gigabyte about the problem and results were even less helpful. They don't have any revision 3.0 boards to replace it with.

I was thinking more along the lines of a simple 3 color indicator. Like green when all the drives are sleeping, blue when active, red when some type of error (like sync error). Maybe even just lighting some cold cathod bulbs

Shell shocker - very short term price. http://www.newegg.com/Special/ShellShocker.aspx I bought two of the same case (outside looks different). At this price with free shipping it's not too bad. The provided case fan is decent and silent. Easy to get into and I have fat fingers. I added a second 120mm fan in the front for intake and cut out the grill in front of fan.

Lame is right. I'm checking out the RMA process. They might not even have any rev 3.0 boards. I'll post what I learn. I looked in the advanced section of the bios and there is a "Save bios to HDD" that is disabled so that must be the HPA setting. I also couldn't figure out what to do to see if I could unlock my second cpu core. Any ideas what to set in that regard? If Newegg doesn't have any older rev 3.0 boards I'll likely keep it. It has two PCI slots and one PCIe x1 for expansion cards. Would I see any great loss of performance using a PCI card (I already have one from the hardware compatibility list) if it comes to that?

Is it possible to some LED's mounted in a 3.5 or 5.25 bay that show the status of the drives as seen in the unRAID main page? Any ideas?

All the new parts arrived and I assembled the machine. It booted into Unraid on the first power up. I do have a concern about the motherboard so please read that below. But first things first; I didn't change any of the bios settings prior to booting the first time and it went into unRAID automatically after not finding bootable OS on any of my other drives. unRAID is installed on the Lexar Firefly USB flash drive. I did a memtest86+ for an hour and it passed that. All 3 hard drives had come from a different unRAID machine and I was able to add them into the array and press the Restore button. I had installed unRAID on the flash drive and then copied the "config", "packages", and "unmenu" folders from the older unRAID machine to it. All the shares on the drives showed up as expected. Unmenu comes up in the browser. I ran the parity sync without errors. I ran 2 parity checks in a row without sync errors. I'm running a 3rd one now. The drives are maintaining temps between 28 and 31 celsus when active. When doing a sync check the estimated speed shown on the unRAID main page starts out at 100MB/s, drops to around 80MB/s at the half way mark and gets down to 54MB/s as it nears completion - nicely demonstrating the drive speeds are fastest on the outer tracks gradually decreasing speeds towards the inner tracks. The cpu cooler doesn't feel warm. One of the RAM chips is warm but the other isn't. Not sure if it's because so little memory is required that the second isn't being active or something else. I'm going to try swapping them around as a test. GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2: The motherboard that arrived is a rev 4.0 and unexpectedly has only 4 sata ports instead of the 6 that rev 3.0 and older had. I haven't decided yet whether I'm annoyed enough to return it. Had I understood that before I purchased I probably would have opted for a different board. However, now that I have it I'll try to determine if it's really the same board with fewer ports or a different board. It looks like rev 4.0 and rev 4.1 have only a single bios apiece. Bios FA is only for Rev 4.0 and bios FB is only for rev 4.1. If it's a different board then what passed unRAID level 1 test might not count. Being a Gigabyte board I wanted to check that HPA is disabled but found nothing in the bios settings or the manual about it. syslog-2010-02-18.txt

Yep, I already have the drives from other machines.

I'm new to Unraid and really just a linux novice. I'm wondering if there is some nice linux-community incremental backup package that could be installed on the Unraid machine to do scheduled backups of certain shares or file types? It seems to me that keeping it all on the Unraid server would be ideal.

I'm doing this on an extreme budget. I need a NAS for a variety of purposes but it's only for home use so I'm starting out with a 3-drive server. I'm using/following the required hardware for the most part. There is lots of really helpful information (sometimes not so easy to lay eyes upon) on the Unraid site. And so far the forum support has been stellar. But for someone starting out with a modest build it's a lot of ground to cover. I know my choice of PSU isn't on the recommended list and it's only 70% effecient but I already have it and I think it's good enough for now. If the recommended Corsair 400 Watt 80+ gets a little cheaper with free shipping (just a matter of time) I'll buy it. I'm probably going to check if the MB will unlock the second core on the cpu but will likely not run it unlocked even if it can be. As far as I can tell Unraid only uses one core. I bought the case on sale $19.99 + free shipping in December -couldn't pass it up. I always keep an unopened extra PSU laying around for emergency. I can't see my server ever growing beyond 6 drives and even that would be a stretch given that any new drives I buy are 1.5TB now. But if it gets beyond 4 drives I'll change out the PSU for certain. And because it's a Gigabyte motherboard I'm going to need to remember to disable HPA in bios. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Topical_Index#HPA Hardware compatibility page: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility#Motherboard Stuff I already had and decided was good enough to make a small Unraid (3-drive) server. PSU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171046 Case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147111 RAM: 2x1GB DDR2 800 Kingston Sata: 3 Seagate 7200.11 500GB Stuff I decided to purchase (all recommended)... Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128342 Cpu: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103698 USB flash drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820191269