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Besides more wear on the bearings, more power usage, and more heat generated probably not.

The other side:

Thought I would post my unRAID build. I wanted my first one to be small enough to take places (like to parents house to backup dad's photos and other things from their PCs). Found the perfect case thanks to bubbaQ's post. -Mini ITX atom mobo (nothing special) -old 80GB 2.5" laptop hard drive with full Slackware installed on it -Norco 5 in 3 hot swap bay

sudo mount -t cifs //[unraid ip or name]/[share name] /[any mount location you choose on your linux box] It just sounds like the directory you are mounting the unraid share is only writable by root. Change it's permissions to allow other users to write to it. Other than that you probably want to ask in the ubuntu forums about this ubuntu issue. Every linux distro does it differently and they would know the "Ubuntu way" of doing it.

A note about that Kingston G2 micro SD card USB reader. I got one of those with a micro SD card I purchased. The reader gets REALLY hot when plugged into the usb port for a while. I only use it for short periods at a time. It seems like a few micro usb drives I have used get really hot, just the way these small things are? So I would assume it just ran hot until something on it burned out.

I just realized the /mnt/user share is not getting mounted. The full slackware wiki page needs to be updated to whatever is missing. It still talks about version 4.4. Anyone know what is preventing the user share from working? I copied over fusermount and rc.fuse as the wiki says but obviously something else is missing. Thanks for any pointers.

Maybe the new udev 153 requires some other updated packages? My system is a slackware 13. I had used upgradepkg to update to the udev from 13.1 which is 153. Maybe there are other things I need to update as well. Either way as long as it works that's all I care about.

Looks like it was udev. I had been on udev 141 before and thought I might as well update it to the current which is 153. Bad idea I guess. I downgraded it back to 141 last night before going to bed. Turned it on today and it booted up just perfectly and is now doing a parity check.

Well, I used kernel 2.6.32.10 but used the .config from the unraid 4.5.1 kernel (make oldconfig) because it worked before and I had customized quite a few things that applied to my hardware. Is there something in the kernel that would affect dev devices showing up that I could have missed?

I'm trying to update my full slackware install from using unraid 4.5.1 to 4.5.4 but something has stopped working. I updated udev and rebuilt the kernel. But now I get no /dev/disk/by-label links at all so it is unable to mount the flash. Can someone help me understand what creates those links and how to get it working again? I have been googling around for an hour now and am unable to find any explanation to what manages this. It looks like udev does but I have no idea where the "rules" to do it are. Nothing has been changed under /etc/udev. Thanks for any help.

Nope. Just had one but it was at /

I rarely shut down my unraid but it always bugs me that it will not unmount all the drives so I end up having to shut it down unsafe. This time I can not figure out what is causing it. What else can I use besides lsof? root@Chiroru:/# lsof /mnt/disk2 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME unraid_ad 1365 root cwd DIR 9,2 144 2 /mnt/disk2 sleep 6013 root cwd DIR 9,2 144 2 /mnt/disk2 root@Chiroru:/# lsof /dev/md md1 md2 root@Chiroru:/# lsof /dev/md2 COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE NODE NAME unraid_ad 1365 root cwd DIR 9,2 144 2 /mnt/disk2 sleep 6028 root cwd DIR 9,2 144 2 /mnt/disk2 root@Chiroru:/# Isn't unraid_ad the management its self?

These have been out for a while. And definately NOT something you would want to do on a computer that is supposed to protect your data.

Dang, so it does change sometimes?

Don't buy this PNY, or maybe any PNY for that matter. I bought this exact USB drive a couple weeks ago. Two days later it completely failed on me. Plug it in, mount it and browse it and it was full of garbage files. Could not delete them or format or even fdisk the partition away to fix it. Check out the reviews on this thing on amazon and you will not want to get it. Something I should have done before buying it. At least mine failed within a time that I could return it. If you want something this small, I would recommend getting this. Similar price and with the added bonus of being able to replace the flash.

Just because it was sold does not mean there will not be any more "Adaptec" cards. Unless I am missing something I would assume PMC-Sierra will continue making the chipsets. Why are you guys saying there will be no more cards?

Looks like it's safe to say that all card readers (maybe except for the cheapest ebay Chinese ones) will have valid GUIDs. That is great to hear. Maybe someone can add a section to the wiki the advantages of going this route and list the ones that people have posted in this thread as definitely working with unRAID.

Does it have the same GUID with different cards? That would be really great because then you could just replace the flash card if and when they fail.

I love how the Costcentral link to that supermicro board lists the MSRP as $25,385.00 with a savings of 99%.

I find this very hard to believe because of your previous actions on these forums. I have never seen adolescent teens with your type of immature attitude create software that is sold at a price. And since you haven't listed it, well, yeah.

The problem with this is in the case of unRAID the customer has paid for it and should rightfully expect LimeTech to support everything included in the package and to fix problems. unRAID is not another OSS package just because it uses OSS software, it is a paid for package. Just like when Linksys used Linux on their routers. Despite it being freely available customers expect Linksys to fix problems in their firmware and not to just tell them to "go talk to the Linux kernel maintainers for a fix". Limetech is charging you for Samba which is included in unRAID, it's not some third party addon. They should support it and fix any problems that their customers are having. Also, they would need to forward any patches upstream to samba as that is the requirement of using that software.

Now lets be honest here. 7 days is a lot longer than 3 hours. I don't know where your logic of saying someone else got a response in 3 hours has anything to do with the person who had no response in 7 days, unless you are trying to say they are lying. You all act like you know the creator of unRAID personally by the use of "Tom" in your posts. Do you guys know him personally? If not, calling out "tom" in your posts is a little rude to him and unprofessional. The fact is that this thread is here for a reason and should probably be called to the attention of lime-tech so they can know how people feel about the support. I honestly can't see how they can miss this thread and if they are ignoring it then that doesn't say much about their priorities at all. I like this product and despite what it appears I really hope things get better on the customer facing side.

Pretty good deal. Wont be long before we get 2tb at $99.

The way I see it the price is a little steep. The OS is free, the md driver is free as its source is included to be gpl compliant (think of it as his payment back to the open source community for being able to use a whole OS in his product for free), samba is free, having it packaged to run on a bootable usb is easy to do with all free software. The only thing I see he is actually selling is the control interface for a whopping $70 for plus. I know this way of looking at it is flawed but I can't help but think of it that way with the price of the product as it is. I'm on the fence with this product for several reasons: Higher than I can justify price, lack of visual support on the forums, and lack of simple built in features such as audible error notification and ssh (things I have added manually) and a few other minor features. Good thing about it being Linux is I can easily add all that. But since unraid consists of a few small programs I would love to have a version that will simply install on top of an already running Linux installation. Correct me if I am wrong, but I see a lot of two types of people on these forums. Those who spend A LOT of money on their unraid (15+ drives) and those who use the free version for testing and eventually disappear. I can see a lower plus price helping with the latter. I will still buy this software if and when I need to add my fourth drive to my unraid. But at the current pricing, not until I really need to.

Wait, why did that happen? You either have a bad flash drive or bad ram. Aren't you the least bit worried that this is a problem?