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bjp999 - your output is almost identical to mine from my stationary workstation.

Thank you That was exactly it I thought the unMenu installation process activated a listening port for the tool. Obviously not the case. I'm however only getting approx 510000 Kbit/s form my workstation and 400000 Kbit/s from my laptop. Tried to change cable to unRAID server with new Cat6e. No change. Something to investigate. Will try to swap switch later.

Very nice initiative. I tried installing through unMenu after copying the package to the package dir , and it apparently installed well according to unMenu, however, Jperf 2.0.2 gives me: bin/iperf.exe -c tower -P 1 -i 1 -p 5001 -f k -t 10 -T 1 connect failed: Connection refused Done. I'm sure it's really simple...

I would be interested in this as well as I might be doing a major upgrade later this year. What is the actual benefit of this? That is one of the beauties of unRAID - you can completely change your underlying infrastructure (i did so myself after a crappy ThermalTake water cooler leak), as long as you have the drives intact, and a print of the slot allocation from the web GUI - ideally you will have labelled your disk physically as well to make things easier.

Great - I've had it with uTorrent - the last version is completely unuseable crashing, hogging ressources and whatnot, so I'll be trying to go for whatever you come up with.

There is indeed 4 ports of each type, so that's correct. But the network will be your bottleneck in either case by some margin. I would not be too concerned with that specifically. Some seem to agree with Chris Pollard about the NForce being bad. I'm not so sure with recent versions of unRAID. I certainly have had no issues that can be attributed to the chipset, and it seems that others are equally successful running it. I'm not sure if there are any power consumption differences. It's up to you to weigh in pros and cons

That would be excellent indeed. Hope You make it! I REALLY would like to consolidate a few auxilliary machines on my unRAID server. Also to save on CO2 from consoldating all our machines - let unRAID be the enabler of a green wave (and I get to save on my electric bill at 38cents/kWh)

Ahemmm... it's got 8 + 2 PATA ports allowing 12 drives in total. How do you get only 4 SATA ports?

I've got an A8N-SLI Premium with all 8 SATA ports populated. The nice thing about it is its low power consumption. Where I live, 30 watts saved 24/7 is equivalent to a new 2TB drive/year at current prices

Is there a different driver for PCI-X vs PCI? My card is the extended-length card and I don't think it will fit in a regular PCI slot I'm sorry - can't help you there. But at bcbgboy13 states, it should be possible to run it as a regular PCI in a regular PCI slot. You could test that just to see if it works at all.

FWIW I had mine running as pure PCI - not PCI-X. I have managed to keep at the native 8 SATA + PATA ports on my current motherboard, so I do not currently have the Raidcore in production.

It's really impressive and interesting. I'm considering at some point rebuilding a server for even less power consumption, relegating the old one as backup server. For every 30W saved, with my prices that is approx. 500DKK / 100USD saved per year! And I even have a spare PicoPSU from my CarPC. Please keep posting real world numbers and configuration :-)

Get the wired network you have there connected to the one upstairs with a wireless bridge. Then it will be transparent as if you had a cable. Probably dependt on the router/AP upstairs, so you should google for how people have succeeded with that specific model (or sponsor two that works great together, or go the powerline route).

Have you looked at the path properly? It seems you are placing the package in the /boot not in /boot/packages ? Otherwise, please attach the logfile

Most of the information is in this thread. You would insert this in your Go-srcipt (use "Config View/edit" in unMENU): installpkg /boot/packages/hamachi-2.0.0.11-i686-unRAID.tgz Then your unRAID machine is done. Install the Hamachi client at your parents PC, and your unRAID server will be available through the assigned IP number presented in the Hamachi client. Then it is just a matter of mapping drives/shares and setting up your preferred way of copying. You could consider installing Logmein while your at it (unrelated to unRAID access, but will be linked with your Hamachi account). I've been using it for years to access my own and my parents machines (for support). It's brilliant.

Yes, the kernel oops that was fixed could effect you later on. That issue has been fixed along with an nfs issue. Upgrading is simply a matter of copying over the bzroot, bzimage, and memtest files and rebooting. Just this morning I got my first ever kernel panic on 4.5.6. It was "Kernel panic - not syncing: CRED: put_cred_rcu() sees ead93e00 with usage -354864640" Maybe that is one of those "Kernel oops" that could also be fixed in this new version? I'll upgrade nevertheless as soon as parity check has finished. Thanks for the fix and outlook to release 5.

Thanks for the feedback. However, when I originally got the MoBo, it was already Level 2 tested. Somewhere even Tom suggested it to someone, and it was used by several others with success. I too have used it with success for a year. I believe the problem with loosing the drive1 after parityswap may come from power supply issues (most likely) or maybe the sata cable being loosely attached after working inside the cabinet. At least, it's an issue that occurred during the upgrade process, pointing to a problem triggered by that. You could of course argue that it is MoBo related. The reason I suspect the power supply is, that I has problems turning the server on again after doing the disk swap. I will however take your recommendations into consideration for what will probably be a Christmas rebuild of the unRAID server. I will start the hunt for a low-power consuming board, and then probably redelegating the Asus board for secondary services (Weather server, SubSonic, ...) Still I'm looking for immediate advice on how to proceed with the existing disks and setup in order to have the highest likelyhood of preserving as much data as possible.

The process has stopped and become a support issue here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9135 :'(

And the expected swap is now building. <phew>. So, the steps are as follows (taken from previous link slightly modfied): 1. Shutdown 2. Remove drive to be changed. 3. Boot, observe webGui says disk is missing, but Start array anyway. 3. Array should start, will use parity reconstruct to satisfy I/O requests to now disabled disk. 4. Shutdown 5. Move old parity to disk1 slot, install new (bigger) disk in parity slot. 6. Boot, observe webGui shows 'parity-swap' situation present. 7. Start array - wait for copy to finish (probably several hours) - when done, parity rebuild should be taking place I actually managed without booting. Simply starting the array, stopping it again (took actually approx. 15 minutes) and then reassigning parity to drive6 (in my case) and the 2TB to parity. Now it is copying to the tune of 1% per 7 minutes... Waiting patiently...

Appears that I'm not alone in this. However, I'm in the process of trying the added step of activating as stated here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9068.msg86754#msg86754

I did the procedure to the letter, but now I get this message Too many wrong and/or missing disks I shut down the server. Took the SATA cable from the disk to be replaced (disk 6), plugged it into the new disk. Power on, and the system complains as expected that the parity disk is not the largest one. The 2TB disk is located in the array as disk 6, where the other one was sitting. Unassigned disk 6. Assigned the 2TB to the parity slot. Assigned the old 1TB parity disk as disk 6. And then to unRAID main web page where the message Too many wrong and/or missing disks is presented next to the start button :'( What should I do now? Below it can be seen, that the parity disk is now located in slot 6. Status Disk Mounted Device Model/Serial Temp Reads Writes Errors Size Used %Used Free DISK_WRONG parity /dev/sdh SAMSUNG_HD103UJ_S13PJDWQA14001 <-- was old disk in this slot WDC WD20EARS-00M_WD-WCAZA1026118 <-- current disk in this slot 38°C 38 0 OK /dev/md1 /dev/sdc 00P8B0_WD-WCAVU0248604 33°C 70 0 OK /dev/md2 /dev/sdd 00M2B0_WD-WMAV50602294 32°C 70 0 OK /dev/md3 /dev/sda 00M2B0_WD-WMAV50287415 34°C 55 0 OK /dev/md5 /dev/sdg 63U_WD-WCAV58157919 35°C 63 0 DISK_WRONG /dev/md6 /dev/sdf SAMSUNG_HD401LJ_S0HVJ1CLB04953 <-- was old disk in this slot SAMSUNG HD103UJ _S13PJDWQA14001 <-- current disk in this slot 29°C 44 0 OK /dev/md7 /dev/sdi SAMSUNG_HD401LJ_S0HVJ13P110541 30°C 67 0 OK /dev/md8 /dev/sdb SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1KLC05846 31°C 70 0 OK /dev/md9 /dev/hda HDS724040KLAT80_KRFA06RAGV3A2C 41°C 54 0 (had to change another disk, as the original candidate [/dev/hda HDS724040KLAT] actually was a PATA-drive)

Finally - after 58 hours - the preclear of the two 2TB drives including postread has finished. Could someone please reconfirm that these drives are ok? I believe it looks right, as everything with "Reallocated" or "Pending" is 0. But I'm a bit unshure about the UDMA-count, that may point towards issues? It should be noted, that the preclear was done on a Jetway board that usually resides in my car, but was the only available hardware with SATA ports for the purpose. It has been doing the preclear partly separated in almost a birds-nest of cables NiA-2TB-Preclear.zip

Almost 24 hours ago I started the Preclear, and things are looking good (I think) so far. It's around 10% into step 10 reading the zeros. I have attached the logs anyway. When they are done, I will have to decide which of the 400GB drives I should retire. If no other indicator, I will simply take the ones with the most hours on the clock. Does the SMART-reports suggest anything different? Preclear-mid-step10.zip SMART-400G-drives.txt

Thank you very much for the clarification Joe . That was very helpful. I will use your posts as my agenda for the weekend. I will make another machine do the preclearing and then carefully follow the steps as described. Maybe this elaboration could go into the Wiki at some point to avoid future questions and doubts down these lines? The current description is maybe a little too high level.

I'm just about to do something very similar. Difference being that I will be removing a functional 400GB disk, demoting the 1TB parity disk to data disk, and then upgrading a second 400GB with 2TB. My setup is as follows: OK parity /dev/sde SAMSUNG_HD103UJ_S13PJDWQA14001 * 11487363 2253733 OK /dev/md1 /mnt/disk1 /dev/sdc 00P8B0_WD-WCAVU0248604 34°C 11531262 118555 1.00T 999.78G 100% 394.43M OK /dev/md2 /mnt/disk2 /dev/sdd 00M2B0_WD-WMAV50602294 * 11968618 375906 1.00T 999.26G 100% 915.39M OK /dev/md3 /mnt/disk3 /dev/sda 00M2B0_WD-WMAV50287415 * 11690864 183695 1.00T 999.82G 100% 355.15M OK /dev/md5 /mnt/disk5 /dev/sdf 63U_WD-WCAV58157919 * 9853000 775957 1.00T 999.33G 100% 847.10M OK /dev/md6 /mnt/disk6 /dev/sdg SAMSUNG_HD401LJ_S0HVJ1CLB04953 * 3616025 68784 400.08G 399.10G 100% 976.47M OK /dev/md7 /mnt/disk7 /dev/sdi SAMSUNG_HD401LJ_S0HVJ13P110541 * 3464275 106243 400.08G 400.05G 100% 24.88M OK /dev/md8 /mnt/disk8 /dev/sdb SAMSUNG_HD403LJ_S0NFJ1KLC05846 * 4869871 153833 400.08G 399.11G 100% 966.93M OK /dev/md9 /mnt/disk9 /dev/hda HDS724040KLAT80_KRFA06RAGV3A2C * 3401023 366583 400.08G 399.37G 100% 705.01M So if someone could confirm the plan: Run parity check Add jumper to the two WD20EARS drives Shut down server and replace the 400GB with one of the 2TB ones Start server and select swap-disable option System will transfer parity and then rebuild 400GB data on the 1TB disk previously used for parity. At some point this is done Check different data elements with focus on the data that was originally on the 400GB disk Shut down Replace another 400BGB disk with the other 2TB disk Restart and rebuild the second 400GB's data on the other 2TB Enjoy newly added space Are there any reason or purpose to do a preclear (other then identifying if one of the 2TBs is dead)? Any other suggestions to the plan? TIA /Niels