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Ok who can recommend a GOOD compatible board for VM's with this cpu - Intel® Core™ i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz and 32g of DDR3 1,600mhz RAM? I will just switch over the ram -cpu and 2 supermirco controller cards........... got to have at least 3 pci express slots ... something that is proven......

Its been a long month with my CPU I-5 - MB upgrade Gigabyte - GA-Z97X-Gaming, I have maxed out the ram at 32g etc, its been running really good and just for grins i finally turned on Visualization and VTD in the bios (that's it nothing else) and could not get unraid to boot it would hang multiple times and after a couple hard boots (per telent in and try shutdown or reboot commands) did not work. I turned on the box and turned off those 2 settings and it boots fine and i am currently in parity sysnc mode. I thought i read somewhere and for the love of god cannot find the article that talks about this problem! Is there a fix? AJ

Got it going thanks ....

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Well that didn't work - see the screen shot, I even restarted the plex server - appears to be only looking in the cache drive?

I think i fixed it - you triggered a brain cell in my head BRB

Hi I believe this is where my issue is see the screen shot...

Hello I am having an issue with the official Limetech plex media server, It installed perfect and runs ok and i am logged into the server and online the problem is when i try to add content i can see what appears to be my shared folders but when i click on the MNT folder none of my drives or shares show. I am running the latest 6.1.6 , with Plex server 9.14.6 , I have attached a screen shot showing the issue! any ideas on what i am doing wrong? - it appears that the server browse is only pointing inside the CACHE drive? thanks AJ

I wish I'd known about it before I suggested the card There are a LOT of folks using H310's on this board, and I had not seen anyone comment on needing to make that modification until very recently (just a few days ago). Not sure if there's a different version of the card, or if it only impacts certain chipsets, or what => but clearly there are some systems that require that those two pins do not make contact. Clearly a very simple modification -- but without it the card simply won't work if you have a card/motherboard combo that exhibits the problem. ... I've never had that specific issue, since I don't have an H310, but I HAVE had a couple of cards (TV tuner cards) that would cause reboot loops if I tried them in a newer system. It's been a couple years, and I no longer have the cards, but I have to wonder if this was the same issue ... and if simply taping those two pins might have been all that was needed for them as well !! In any event, I'd still buy an H310 if I needed extra ports -- but I'll certainly keep the link to that modification handy [actually, I "printed" it to a PDF file already] just in case I need it. No problem about the Dell I am sure it was a card issue - well i bought another MV8 too replace the PCI 4 port card on ebay with SAS cables shipped for $39, Once received i might have to follow this article by Rajahal - http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12404.0 Like you said early the speeds have increased Total size: 5 TB Elapsed time: 11 hours, 54 minutes Current position: 2.54 TB (50.8 %) Estimated speed: 82.1 MB/sec Estimated finish: 8 hours, 19 minutes

WOW Wish i would have known about that before i sent it back... oh well the supermicro seems to be working fine. I ended restarting the parity again per Disk 2 had errors , So i am back at it again trying to run a clean parity sync with another Disk.. Total size: 5 TB Elapsed time: 6 hours, 51 minutes Current position: 1.31 TB (26.2 %) Estimated speed: 60.1 MB/sec Estimated finish: 17 hours, 4 minutes

Gary, That makes sense about some bottle necking in my system still.. I tried the Dell perc expansion card that you recommended earlier on my other meltdown thread but there was definitely something wrong with it, per it made both my unraid and my win 10 machines be on a constant reboot loop, I sent it back to the guy on Ebay for a refund. I ended up going with a Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 that was local and according to the owner was used for awhile, I added the card into the slot and it appears to be working fine no firmware flash etc... The other drives our directly hooked to the MB six sata slots, Then I did have to use a PCI 4 port per I was still 4 drives short. I do also have this installed to make up for the the top 5.25 slots in my case -http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-5-25-Inch-3-5-Inch-Hot-swap-SATAIII/dp/B00DGZ42SM for 4 hot swap drives... I would like to get another Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 and install it per i have the room, I believe this will help speeds/bottle necking etc as i eliminate the older drives smaller drives installed through the PCI slot, Adding another Shouldn't be an issue having (2) - Supermicro AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 correct? AJ

So far so good ............ Total size: 5 TB Elapsed time: 2 hours, 43 minutes Current position: 489 GB (9.8 %) Estimated speed: 58.0 MB/sec Estimated finish: 21 hours, 36 minutes

Gary - cooking dinner right now , but stopped by the win 10 pc and grabbed the log , check it out yes i beleive your right on with disk 9 being the issue, I will do as you say... let me know if you see anything else! thanks again... syslog.zip

Guys I finally got all of my data backed up after an issue with an MB upgrade etc, I ran 2 preclear runs with the 5tb drive before swapping out with the 4tb i had in the system. 3 different times i have started a parity sync and it starts out around 35mb/s sec and then slows after a few minutes to 30 -60 kb/s. 1st time it went to 1.5% then next time it went to 5% , now this time at 7.5% , I noticed disk 9 has a few sector errors and i could remove it from the system if need be, Do you think disk 9 is the reason for the slow parity check? for the times it stalls like this the webui is not locked up but definetly is really slow and will let me cancel the parity sync, but it sits for ever after i try to shutdown, and a couple of times ive had to hold the power button! I have attached a health report let me know what you think i should do? thanks

Still Backing up ... - Just bought this - http://www.ebay.com/itm/261753320440 and these cables - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008VLHTA4?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00 for the rebuild, Which the way its going with the backup will be finishing up next week.....

Wow ok, i can try it and it should have better transfer rate then a 1.0 slotted card and other choices ? Also see the picture it found 13k files on the 300g drive i first scanned... also i am running the server on memtest and its at 40% of test 9 with no errors...

I understand and advice taken on the prevoius post and will run a memtest for tonight etc .... Yes i do have all the pictures backup i just remembered on dropbox and another external drive outside the array.... I have attached a picture of the MB installed yes it does have 3 pci express 16 slots free and - 1 PCI slot - and 3 pci express slots , and then 6 internal slots on the board itself, after this disaster i don't feel comfortable using another PCI express 16 slot would you? sorry just a little paranoid per that's how i believe all of this BS started. So with 6 built in slots on the MB and 3 open PCI express 1.0 slots ( the older style) if i could find 4 port cards between the MB internals and the 3 older pci express slots i could have 18 drives if need be,Right now i have 15 drives but some of those drives are probably getting ready to fail and are smaller drives. As any Unraid person does they typically upgrade in size as they fail, so in theory if i started to buy 6tb drives i could cut down on the amount of drives.... but would have room to expand if need be. couldn't crop the picture of the board to fit on the forum so here is a link https://www.dropbox.com/s/u91kx7j2wubbvyy/2015-12-01%2022.38.01.jpg?dl=0 aj

Rob your spot on and following me and my situation well, Yes i did back up my flash drive before i tried anything and have it saved, earlier way earlier i was trying to save drives with linux commands and it just was taking to long and it looked dismal so i stopped the process , geez for all i know that might have corrupted the 6 drives. Now for the MB i built it up installed it (parity check was only a week away and nothing was saved recently that i wouldnt care about after the parity drive check, No i didn't run a mem test i just went for it.. The power supply is lepa Bon BM1000 and its been running great for 6 months, I really think my issue all started with the 4 port sig PCI express , Not pci express 1 type, again This model of controller SIIG - sata 6gb/s 3i + 1 ssd hybrid PCI E i installed into the 3rd PCI express slot of my Gigabyte MB could never see any of the drives, either because this addon card doesn't like this board or the drives were already either being corrupted or ?? maybe the drives weren't the 6gbs type but either way you would think that the card/ drives would be backwards compatible. After a lot of confusion why i couldn't see the drives i started experimenting moving other drives to that addon card and it all started to fall apart. I am going to take the addon card back to Frys. On a good note for grins i installed easeus data recovery and it's seeing the drive now in Windows 10 through that program and its scanning and finding files So I believe i could be on the recovery road (fingers crossed) see the picture and thanks to you and Gary for replying and caring about my situation. I will advise later on the recovery efforts, As a side note can you or Gary recommend a good 4 or 8 port PCI express addon card , it has to be the old smaller PCI express slot?

its booted now and disk management sees it but my computer doesn't show it, probably per theres no assigned number or name, ok got linux reader installed and it shows the 300g drive but i get errors trying just to open it - so i tried to mount it and its looking for something i am not sure? see the pix... i guess i better read up..

I had the same thought ... but if I've read this correctly he's moved all of the "unmountable" drives to the motherboard controller and has no add-in controllers (per Tom's suggestion via e-mail). And he had the same issue using the motherboard ports on his old system as well. But it certainly wouldn't hurt to connect these drives, one-at-a-time, to a spare SATA port or USB bridge device on a Windows PC and see if you can "see" the data okay using a Linux IFS, such as the free LinuxReader [ http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ ] I am right there with you i took the smallest unmountable drive a 300gb and hooked it up to my win 10 pc and it made my pc hang on boot, another issue ... ok so remembering an old trick i downloaded knoppix live DVD burned it and booted the win 10 machine and that didnt work out per i am not to familar with knoppix and it was in German and couldnt get it switched over to english.... I still have the drive hooked up and windows 10 - doesnt even see it from disk management, so not sure if the free linux reader will see the drive? Installing Linux reader now! will advise...

I had the same thought ... but if I've read this correctly he's moved all of the "unmountable" drives to the motherboard controller and has no add-in controllers (per Tom's suggestion via e-mail). And he had the same issue using the motherboard ports on his old system as well. But it certainly wouldn't hurt to connect these drives, one-at-a-time, to a spare SATA port or USB bridge device on a Windows PC and see if you can "see" the data okay using a Linux IFS, such as the free LinuxReader [ http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ ] I am right there with you i took the smallest unmountable drive a 300gb and hooked it up to my win 10 pc and it made my pc hang on boot, another issue ... ok so remembering an old trick i downloaded knoppix live DVD burned it and booted the win 10 machine and that didnt work out per i am not to familar with knoppix and it was in German and couldnt get it switched over to english.... I still have the drive hooked up and windows 10 - doesnt even see it from disk management, so not sure if the free linux reader will see the drive?

I am in total agreement Rob , before i switched back for a 1/2 day back to the old mb and all my pci addon cards i had the issue with the old board and all those addon cards, Now i am going for it with the new MB with NO addons just all the suspect drives hooked up directly to the new MB. Now to prove my point that the new MB is fine or the PSU i could as a test just take one or more of the Good drives and install it into the mb as a test to prove that the new mb controller is fine... I just want to get my data back and ill go buy bigger drives to transfer to if i have to. I did do a serach of the wiki etc and it's somewhat clear of the approach of rebuilding / repairing the drives, So again being a moderate linux command user (lightly) do you have a clear process to follow? thanks aj

Do you not have backups of your data?? [You're not alone, but it always amazes me how many folks don't bother to backup and then wonder why they lose data. My thoughts are detailed here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=31020.0 ] Notwithstanding that, if these were all Reiser-formatted drives, the Reiserfsck utility is VERY good at recovering data that would likely be toast in most other file systems. I would, one-at-a-time, run Reiserfsck against the problematic drives ... and copy all recovered data to another drive. Search the forum for Reiserfsck and you'll find excellent instructions on using this from some of the Linux experts. I've never personally used it [No need as I have superb backups] ... but it often amazes me how well it can recover data from corrupted Reiser disks. The basic initial command you want to use is: reiserfsck --check /dev/mdX (where X is the disk # you want to check) Then, depending on what it finds, you'll need to use more advanced commands ... possibly rebuilding the file system tree structure. Ask here for more detailed help ... or via e-mail to Limetech. In reviewing the thread I see you ran this on at least one of the disks earlier in the process -- which options did you use for it? And are you sure you ran it on the correct device? I believe for some actions you have to also specific the partition # ... but as I noted, I am NOT an expert on using this. Gary - not sure where i would back up almost 24 tb of data - run another unraid machine? - I bought into unraid for redundancy but i appreciate the comments i really do and the help. (reading your page about backups now) So being moderate Linux command user - i noticed on some threads you can perform this check in maintenance mode, but then it switches you over to commands from the keyboard. I have reviewed the wiki and the search forum and i am not seeing a clear cut step by step way to recover.... can you point me to the specific topic or topics you were seeing? AJ

Well after taking from advice from Tom on an email - I gutted the whole server - drives and addon cards and the just added the (unmountable) drives 6 of them --- yes 6 unmountable drives - back into the new mb, I hooked them up with NEW sata cables with locking tabs, then powered up the computer. Per Toms advice then - went to tools - New Config and assigned the drives and data drives, Keep in mind per Tom there is no parity drive installed just the 6 unmountable drives. Then i assigned all 6 unmountable drives into the original slots per unraid and then started the array, well guess what all 6 drives are still unmountable, I am really getting wooried that all my data pictures etc are Gone. Again the only hardware in the system right now is the following - the new MB,PS, 6 drives hooked directly to the mb 6 sata slots. it appears that the reiserfs file system is non exsistant if you click on a drive from the main menu. I did get a syslog and its attached. all 6 of these drives were basically full and they add up to about 10tb .... does anyone know how to make these drives become mountable in Unraid? AJ tower-syslog-20151130-2157.zip

Well after an upgrade Hell - I am rebuiding data with the NEW MB/CPU,RAM on disk 1 per no matter what i tried cables - different ports etc i finally switched out drive 1 with another and again its almost done rebuilding the data on it, Ok now for my bigger issue i still have 5 yes...... 5 Drives that show UNMOUNTABLE. See the picture of whats happening from the webui , the unmountable drives show green but it's like their file system is not there! I have and will not format (I will loose my data on those drives) or even check parity until i hear from an expert on the next steps. I have stopped my docker - Plex and also turned it off from auto starting... Please help i am really frustrated and I have searched the site and there seems to be articles on this subject but i am skeptical on which path to take.... thanks AJ