xamindar

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  1. try "vbetool dpms off". That should turn off the monitor. Be warned, it will not come back on again until you type "vbetool dpms on". Probably not what you want, but it's one way to do it.
  2. Thanks for the input. Looks like the Norco is the best choice and is cheapest as well. About these things in general, do they all have drive power and activity LEDs? From the pictures on newegg for the Norco it looks like it doesn't have any LEDs at all. Also, do they have a way of telling you about a dead drive and which drive it is? And regarding the fans, if I plugged the fan into the motherboard (or anywhere else besides the tray) is there a way to disable the fan fail alarm? If I get the Norco I will have to buy 4 sata cables separately. Although getting it all from newegg is still $10 cheaper than buying the istarusa one or the supermicro.
  3. That's what I thought he was talking about. But why is it required for unRAID? I read elsewhere that this only affects windows XP and that Linux and every other modern OS is ready for the change. Is this just something particular to unRAID that the developer didn't account for? If so I hope there is an unRAID update to fix this soon. That backwards compatibility lowers performance and will probably require a reformat of the drive if it is changed later on.
  4. http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?t=1894036 Good deal if anyone is interested. I just bought two.
  5. I'm looking at getting a 5 in 3 hot swap tray for my unraid. Anyone who has used these please post your experiences and any problems they may have. I have heard everything from "they keep the drives at 35 C" to "you can't use all 5 trays as the drives overheat" so I'm not sure. They are quite expensive so I want to get a good one. Here are the two I am currently looking at: iStarUSA http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816215176 Supermicro http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121405&cm_re=supermicro_sata_hot-_-17-121-405-_-Product I'm leaning toward the iStarUSA one as it looks better and looks like solid construction with the aluminium handles. The drawback compared to the supermicro is that the fan is non-standard so a little harder to replace. The supermicro one would also leave only about 1cm of space between the back of the fan and my PSU in the case. Any other brands out there I should be considering? Thanks.
  6. Umm, care to explain yourself? What is the jumper for? I might be getting one of these soon and heard nothing about having to jumper it.
  7. heh queeg, your post has reassured my choice to stay away from Seagate drives. You talk about all the bad experiences that you have had with them yet say you will buy again. I choose to vote with my money. One question about warranty. Aren't they all 3 years now? I would love to find a drive that was 5 years. Maybe only high end ones are? Though you are talking about 1.5gig drives and that was a long long time ago so they might had been 5 years back then. In fact, I still have one Seagate drive around. A 250gig drive a friend gave me when he upgraded. It's in my unraid server at the moment and man is it LOUD. It sounds like a jet engine when it spins up and has a high pitch whine while spinning. Sounds like the bearings are going out. Also clicks more than once when it spins up. Anyway, again just my experience with them. I may also buy another Seagate but only if the price is a lot lower than a comparable WD, and only for my unraid server that can recover when it fails.
  8. What's wrong with the EARS drives? To my knowledge Linux is fully prepared to use 4k drives. Are they physically failing? I haven't heard anyone complaining about these drives failing. My only recommendation from personal experience is to NOT use Seagate or Maxtor drives. I never had a WD drive fail on me.
  9. Here is a comparison without the plugin installed and then with the plugin installed. Now it is apparent that the femur plugin enlarges the bottom bar.
  10. Did you guys ever try contacting ASUS? What did they say?
  11. Cool idea for a plugin. But it doesn't fit correctly in the bottom bar in firefox 3.6. It's a little too big and looks too crowded. Anyone still working on this? Or is there a better one out?
  12. Try with Google Chrome. Both Safari and Chrome use the same engine, if they both crash it's probably webkit and maybe something can be done to work around the problem in unRAID. If not, then it's just something wrong with safari. In that case just use a better browser. Safari isn't the greatest.
  13. Well, the other posts were actually good and informative. Most of the posts I see from BRiT around the forum though are usually very condescending, rude, and short ones that serve to purpose other than to attack others. Whatever dude, I probably shouldn't even bother responding to your posts considering the way you act.
  14. You COMPLETELY missed the point of my post. Besides, it would be nice to get a response from Lime Tech. No one else needs to respond to it as their responses don't mean anything.
  15. Wouldn't most of these non GPL compliance complaints be mitigated if all the source that is required was simply provided on the website? Why doesn't he just do that anyway? I can't see it breaking the bank to add a few download links. I think it would stop a lot of this discussion and accusing. I can fully understand people getting upset when even though Lime Technology is apparently complying with the GPL, they sure don't make it easy to find that out. I remember the outrage over the Linksys routers that pretty much completely stopped when Linksys provided their router source available for download on their website, and it's still there even though they have moved their routers over to non GPL software. So anyway, I have a serious question for "Tom". Why not simply provide a download link for the source on the website? Which will as a result likely shut up all these self proclaimed GPL police.
  16. Thanks Joe. So if I understand correctly, hitting restore will keep data on any existing disks that were not touched but any that were changed will be dumped and formatted as a new, empty disk. And it will dump parity and have to recalculate that from scratch. So it just gathers the disks that still have valid data and starts a new parity calculation for them? For example, I move all the disks to a new motherboard and in turn they end up on different ports. In this case, simply clicking restore would cause it to find them all and set up the array again? I hope I have it right now. Thanks for the clarification.
  17. Aww, I remember old 486 and pentium computers I used to have had those serial cables. Too bad you had to pay $7 for it but at least you found one.
  18. Newegg must have it wrong then. It doesn't list any serial port on newegg for his board. screwonbudnik20, once you get it connected, you will probably need run something like this to monitor the ups and take action when there is a problem. Regarding the usb to serial converter. You may need to load a driver for it, and the linux kernel seems to have A LOT of them. --- USB Serial Converter support ? ? ? ? -*- Functions for loading firmware on EZUSB chips ? ? ? ? [*] USB Generic Serial Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB AIRcable Bluetooth Dongle Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB ARK Micro 3116 USB Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Belkin and Peracom Single Port Serial Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB Winchiphead CH341 Single Port Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB ConnectTech WhiteHEAT Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Digi International AccelePort USB Serial Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB CP210x family of UART Bridge Controllers ? ? ? ? <M> USB Cypress M8 USB Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Empeg empeg-car Mark I/II Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB FTDI Single Port Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Fundamental Software Dongle Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Handspring Visor / Palm m50x / Sony Clie Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB PocketPC PDA Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB IR Dongle Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Inside Out Edgeport Serial Driver (TI devices) ? ? ? ? <M> USB Garmin GPS driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB IPWireless (3G UMTS TDD) Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB Infinity USB Unlimited Phoenix Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Keyspan PDA Single Port Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Keyspan USA-xxx Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB KL5KUSB105 (Palmconnect) Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB KOBIL chipcard reader ? ? ? ? <M> USB MCT Single Port Serial Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB Moschip 7720 Serial Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB Moschip 7840/7820 USB Serial Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB Motorola Phone modem driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Navman GPS device ? ? ? ? <M> USB Prolific 2303 Single Port Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Ours Technology Inc. OTi-6858 USB To RS232 Bridge Controller ? ? ? ? < > USB Qualcomm Serial modem ? ? ? ? < > USB SPCP8x5 USB To Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB HP4x Calculators support ? ? ? ? <M> USB Safe Serial (Encapsulated) Driver ? ? ? ? [ ] USB Secure Encapsulated Driver - Padded ? ? ? ? < > USB Siemens MPI driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB Sierra Wireless Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB Symbol Barcode driver (serial mode) ? ? ? ? <M> USB TI 3410/5052 Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB REINER SCT cyberJack pinpad/e-com chipcard reader ? ? ? ? <M> USB Xircom / Entregra Single Port Serial Driver ? ? ? ? <M> USB driver for GSM and CDMA modems ? ? ? ? <M> USB ZyXEL omni.net LCD Plus Driver ? ? ? ? < > USB Opticon Barcode driver (serial mode)
  19. Sorry prostuff1, I take back what I said about the wiki. With the exception of my complaints above everything else I have wondered about I was able to find in the wiki and it has helped a lot in understanding the way unraid works. My complaints above are about things that are not officially supported by unraid anyway. I set up my test machine with three drives and have been copying stuff over to them. I found it strange at first how it lists each drive as a seperate share but I guess it makes sense because the data is not striped across disks. On that note, if I had a disk that only has say 5 gigs free and attempted to copy a 10gig file to it, instead of it pooling over to a disk that had more space I would get a disk full error right? But then with a user share it would automatically put that file on another disk that had space? I tried testing a failure by pulling a drive and am happy to find that the data on the pulled drive is still available. Now, after putting the drive back in the web interface states "Stopped. Disabled disk replaced." (I powered down to pull the disk) Now it gets really confusing, I'm not sure to press Start or Restore. Without reading the caption next to the buttons I would assume to press restore as in to restore the array and incorporate the new disk. And that pressing start will just start an unprotected array without the new drive. Now reading the caption next to start it says "Start will bring the array on-line, start Data-Rebuild, and then expand the file system (if possible)." Ok, so what I really need to press is the start button because I want to bring it online, expand to the new drive, and rebuild the data on it. But when I read the caption next to restore "Restore will initialize the stored array configuration; all drives will appear as New, but data disk contents are not affected." What in the world does this mean? All drives will appear as new? It sounds like it will erase everything. Then it says data disk contents are not affected, but didn't it just say all will be as new? And what about the parity drive? It says nothing about that. It seems to contradict or at least not explain what it means in clear enough english. (Did a lawyer write this?) I do want to "initialize the stored array configuration" so now I have no idea what to press. Can anyone help me out here? Why is it worded so confusing? So far I am loving this and will be buying it when I build a proper unraid box (ordered a case and mini-itx board today Oh, one more question. When I move the drives and the unraid flash stick over to the new motherboard will unraid be able to start the array as if nothing happened? Or will it want to erase everything and set it up from scratch?
  20. Alright, I got it working. I stuck a very small (4 gig) ide hard drive I had into a usb enclosure and installed unraid just like you would on any other usb drive. Then stuck it back into that computer and also plugged in the usb stick and it booted up perfectly. I'll mess around with this free version and see how I like it. So far so good. I do have a question about the parity drive. It does have to be the largest one right? What happens if I add an even larger drive to the array in the future? Will it move parity over to the correct one, will it even need to? Will I need to do anything special? Thanks for the help.
  21. Thanks for the replies. Looks like the best option for me on this computer is to make a bootable cd image. That link to USB boot issues looked really good until I tried it. But when I clicked on "Create Bootable isolinux CD to replace flash" it just took me to a forum post with one single post from someone who said they created a bootable cd and it worked. Things must have changed because the way he said he did it doesn't work. mkisofs requires files that don't exist and there is no explanation of how to create them. I might have to drag a floppy drive out of the closet and hope I still have a floppy cable somewhere. I'm surprised at the lack of documentation on unraid. The wiki looks promising until you start clicking on the links, very vague instructions and often just links to a forum post someone made two years ago. Again, thanks for the tips, I'm pretty frustrated with this thing at the moment. I'll do some more searching for a solution.
  22. I have been reading about this the last couple of days and am trying to figure out if this is what I want. What I am looking for is some way to turn my old hardware into something like what that drobo does. Basically: 1)allow 3 or more drives to be lumped into one large drive so all I have to do is copy things over to it and stuff ends up on whatever drive has space. At the moment I am using LVM in linux (same as JBoD) to do this and it works fine. But if a drive fails everything is gone. 2)Next thing I need is some sort of redundancy which LVM does not provide. I can't use normal raid because it requires all drives to be the same size and they aren't. Hopefully something that provides redundancy without loosing too much space. 3)Ability to add larger drives as they become available and remove smaller ones later on so I can increase available space without starting over each time. Something I really liked when reading about that drobo. Does unraid allow all this? Does it allow me to have a bunch of different sized disks show as one disk and have redundancy for at least a single drive failure? I saw something else out there called flexraid but when reading about it it looks like all the drives come up as something like: /drive1 /drive2 /drive3 /parity and then you just have to put things in the drive that has space available. Unless I read that wrong. But that is not what I want at all. One drawback I see with unraid is that it has to run from a usb drive. Doesn't that limit a lot of what you can do with it? It's basically a NAS drive? Is there any way to run unraid from an internal drive on the linux distro of my choice and maybe have the usb flash disk inserted so the licence is valid or whatever it needs it for? The machine I hope to run this on (or any sollution that will allow me a raid type expandable drive) does not boot from usb so this is the point I'm a little stuck on. Thanks for any help.