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Have you tried another USB slot? Does the drive work when used on other machines?

Tried 4.0, dunno if its fixed my error problems yet since I can't get it to boot, see message here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=646.0

I think I've run into the same issue. When I switched the new 500gB drive to the motherboard sata instead of the promise sata card the errors stopped. So I'm thinking either the promise card has issues with newer/bigger drives or the promise linux drivers are flawed somehow. The motherboard's sata chipset is made by VIA. I'm on unraid 3.0, maybe 4.0 would be fix it. I think i'd have to get a custom build of it like i did for 3.0 however to test it. If I get around to trying it I'll post back.

Yea you can add/replace drives without data loss. My guess is the mirroring is on a file or even sector/cluster level. The backup part of it works on the cluster level, one video showed it checking for changed clusters, so they're being very efficient that way. Anyway, as long as they make sure that every bit is on two drives, if you remove an external drive you wouldn't break anything and it would resync/mirror as needed assuming there's free space, or you'd need to reattach a drive to get back to full data protection again. If it was at a sector/cluster level the files on the removed drive would be pretty useless. So it may be per file. I read somewhere the mirroring is optional also.

If it was released I wouldn't need to hope now would I? And it's inconceivable they would drop such a well developed (and announced) project at this stage. It looks like a very promising solution for consumers. However, from watching channel 9/10 videos, it sounds like the RAID-like functionality is merely keeping data on two hard drives at all times. So merely very flexible, pooled, mirroring rather than parity based protection. Hopefully thats not the case, we'll see. The automated multiple machine backup with versioning and other features will be very nice regardless, but for mass media file storage it wouldn't be as attractive.

From watching channel 9/10 videos, it sounds like the RAID-like functionality is merely always keeping data on two hard drives at all times. So merely very flexible, pooled, mirroring rather than parity based protection. Hopefully thats not the case, we'll see.

I hadn't seen that documented, thanks for the info. I guess my hopes move on to Windows Home Server now.

If I'm reading this correctly ZFS could be a good enhancement or maybe even replacement for unRAID. Share your thoughts! http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/zfs_last.pdf http://mtrr.org/blog/?p=83

Well that's just stupid. FAT works fine, FAT32 does not. I even went back to FAT32 to verify that was it. OK, so I've got a login prompt now, what do I do from there? Only thing i see on the instructions is go to \\Tower, which i've tried to do in IE and firefox. Firefox goes to towerrecords.com and IE goes to msn search. My router is set up for DHCP. I checked it's interface and it only lists this computer, so its not connecting. I suppose that means my onboard ethernet isn't supported?

Found it via another site and tried formatting and syslinux and reextracting. Same as before, can't find kernel. Does it matter if its fat or fat32?

Yea I tried to grab that a minute ago, but the link doesn't work. It tries a while and dies.

Doublechecked that I have the newest bios available and i do. Tried turning off all the extra onboard things, tried quickboot off, tried USB 1.1 mode.

USB: OCZ RALLY Model OCZUSBR2DC-1GB http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820227111 Motherboard: MSI 8MM-ILSR http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K8MM-ILSR I don't have any other USB drives on hand unfortunately. I just tried it in a Dell 4600C i had access to and it booted ok on that, so that shouldn't be the issue.

Yea I've got all those files in the root of my usb drive. Here's the contents of the syslinux.cfg: default UnRaid label UnRaid kernel bzimage append initrd=bzroot ramdisk_size=120000 root=/dev/ram0