xamindar

If you are copying the data over a 100mbit ethernet connection then 11 or 12 MB/s is the fastest you can get. What ext2/3 driver did you install in Vista to mount the drive? ext2fsd?

First of all, what is the filesystem of that external drive that you are trying to mount? From your posts it is not ext2 and probably not ext3 either. You need to know the filesystem first if Linux is not autodetecting it when you try to mount it.

Well, the reason I asked is because I am running unraid on top of arch linux and can't find out with "syslogd -version". Arch uses syslog-ng by default. Thanks for the reply and answer though. I did a little searching around and determined it wasn't syslog-ng or metalog, but wasn't sure if there were any others out there besides the normal old syslogd. Up until now the only thing not working right on this install was logging and thought I would fix it today. I just ended up symlinking /var/log/everything/current to /var/log/syslog for now and that seems to work.

This is the one thing that doesn't work on my install. Could someone tell me which system logger unraid uses? Thanks.

Yes.

The PS3 does not support mkv files unfortunately. But ps3mediaserver can transcode them to a format that the PS3 does support but you need to have it installed on a pretty beefy computer for that to work reliably. PS3 does support m4v/mp4 files which have pretty much the same features as the mkv container. PS3 also supports the avi format. Look here for further information.

Standard price on these drives is $80 now, and sale price (there was one a couple of days ago) is $60.

NO. No samba support on the PS3. It does support UPnP (DLNA) media servers. You can set up mediatomb or ps3mediaserver to share media with the ps3. Windows Vista and above support this feature as well I have heard.

Yeah, it doesn't look like there is a driver for your sensor chip yet. The closest I can see in the 2.6.36 kernel is this driver. But it doesn't mention 8721 which I assume you have based on the ID. ???????????????????????? ITE IT87xx and compatibles ???????????????????????? ? CONFIG_SENSORS_IT87: ? ? ? ? If you say yes here you get support for ITE IT8705F, IT8712F, ? ? IT8716F, IT8718F, IT8720F and IT8726F sensor chips, and the ? ? SiS960 clone. ? ? ? ? This driver can also be built as a module. If so, the module ? ? will be called it87. ? ? ? Is this your chip? If so, it definitely isn't supported yet. From this it seems like a strange, rare chip only ASUS uses.

Not necessarily, it may just mean there is no driver in the Linux kernel for your chip (or you have none, unlikely with recent hardware). If sensors-detect didn't say "yes" to anything as you went through it then there probably isn't any driver for your hardware. You could possibly try a full slackware or any more recent linux and see if there is a driver (module) for it in more recent kernels.

Bah! I need to look more closely before I reply. Sorry, My previous post is not the issue. Here is your issue: Take a real close look at that... It wasn't able to read sbd, sbe, and sbf because they do not exist. It actually read your Hitachi drives just fine. Try changing all those b's to d's.

It's not getting the temperature for your two Hitachi drives. Maybe no one has used the script with Hitachi drives yet and they report a different name for the temperature value. Could you post the output of: smartctl -d ata -A /dev/sdb sdb or sdc, doesn't matter which you post. We will likely have to modify the script to look for something different. Right now it takes the value of Temperature_Celsius which both my Western Digital and Seagate drives label such as. I think I remember bubbaQ or someone making an actual program to report the temperature. It was a while ago. Anyone remember that? It might be a better way of doing things. Just have the script call that program and get the highest temp that way.

search the forums for ps3mediaserver and mediatomb. Those are both DLNA media servers.

Pretty sure it auto negotiates. Why would they go backwards in technology? IDE auto determined the correct speed, makes sense that sata would too. Did you at least try the drive before contacting WD and posting here? By the way, I'm using three new drives just fine on a sata 1.5 card. No problems.

Yeah, install a full slackware as a test then run the same sensors-detect and make sure those sensors are loaded. Then test if you can control the fans. If that all works then you just need to compile a new kernel for unraid with the sensor modules for your hardware. You can follow the unraid wiki for the full slackware install to compile the kernel. Just make sure you go to the hardware sensors section in "make menuconfig" and enable those same sensor modules so they will be built (you can compile them into the kernel as an alternative but then sensors-detect will complain that they can't be found. But it should still work).

You need to research your chipset and what Linux kernel drivers work with it and what those drivers support. You are probably not going to find much help here I'm afraid as people here probably aren't kernel hackers. You might want to check lkml.org and maybe subscribe to that list to ask your questions.

There is an addon you can install that will email you I believe. But by default the only way to tell is to check the web gui which will indicate it unfortunately. Would be really nice to have an audible indication of a failure as just about every computer has a built in speaker.

I agree, get rid of this Microsoft mentality of releasing what should be a beta version as a full version. It would be nice to see a new version posted as beta for a month or so and then after there is confidence that any critical bugs have been ironed out and fixed, release it as final.

I agree. I will not buy anything with rebates ever again. Half the time they do not even send them.

Promo code is invalid. But I have seen 2TB deals approaching $99 lately and I'm sure they will reach that price when the 3TB drives are launched.

Mine works fine with Japanese naming over samba. I think unraid samba is set up utf8 but not sure. Though, if I telnet in I do not get Japanese filenames in the console. unraid unfortunately is made with US english language in mind only it seems. But if you just use it over samba it seems fine.

This must be why all the drives are recently dropping in price a great deal.

Last drive scanned by bios does not mean it is the last card loaded by Linux as well. Unraid probably loads the modules for your cards in a different order than the bios scans them. Nothing wrong with that and quite normal.

3 dead cards? In years of using computers I have only had one thing fail besides hard drives. A motherboard with defective capacitors that all popped. Are you sure something is not causing this? Bad power on the pci bus? Too much heat in the case?

Not the coolest build but it doesn't get too hot. The drives peak around 38 on hot days. Before I replaced the original hotswap fan with a quieter one it was cooler than that and the cpu fan never spun as that one fan kept everything else inside cool as well. But I needed less noise with it being right next to the TV. The new fan also spins down when the hard drives are cool enough or spun down themselves.