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  1. It's this one: Allegro Pro USB 3.0 PCIe 4-Port Computer Card - Sonnet (sonnettech.com) This is the elusive 4x Type A USB 3.0 port card with discrete controllers per port, meaning you can assign each port to a different VM, assuming your MB IOMMU breaks them out correctly.. I discovered that unfortunately it just didn't want to work reliably with my bifurcated PCIe ports. (Taichi X399 wouldn't always post). It works great when used in a standard PCIe port, but unfortunately did not meet my very specific needs. Hence sale. Bare card only. No packaging, though will be well wrapped for postage. Looking for $150 / €135 or close offer + postage at cost. Payment by Paypal (friends) or Revolut. I'm located in EU, (Ireland). I can post worldwide, but be aware you may incur import fees and charges. YMMV. I'll be listing on fleabay in a few days but wanted to give unRAIDers first shout as these are hard to find and if you need it, you need it.
  2. Curious as to how you figured that out. Was it documented somewhere? Seems very counter intuitive. Anyway, I had the same issue when I upgraded from 6.11.5 to 6.12.2 and was super-frustrated until I found you post. Many thanks.
  3. Thanks for help so far. Making good progress (and some of the above was down to non Unix line breaks in one of my files - D'Oh! One small item I cannot find an answer to..... Is it possible to direct link to a tab within a page? For example, if I click on a disk under 'MAIN', the link brings me to the first '<diskname> Settings' tab of the Device.page (/Main/Settings/Device?name=parity) Is there a URL that can be used to load up one of the other tabs in context of the parent page? For example will display the 'Identity' tab by itself (DeviceIdentify.page), but I'd like to use something like to show all the tabs, with that particular one selected.
  4. Cheers That's exactly the folder structure I had, with no joy. However, when I simplified the file contents as per your suggestion, the tab appeared, so there must have been some error in the page itself. Now I can press on with this part. Appreciate it.
  5. Looking here; I see these pages; Which are what (I believe) generate this; I want to add a 'driveTag' tab there. I've added this page inside my plugin; Which starts like this; But nothing shows. Trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong.
  6. Thanks for the response. I guess I need 2 and 4 from your list. (I know how to do 1, don't want to do 3 for reasons you outline and not 5) I'm hoping to do 2 things; A new section (tab) within this second level page; And an additional icon, column or rollover (TBD) per line item for disks on the dashboard, and under each tab on the Main page where disks are listed;
  7. Hi Folks, Trying to write a plugin and very frustrated with the scant documentation. I've figured out creating the skeleton, the plugin settings page, updates, saving out data and the like. Now, I want to add a page to the webGUI, and add functionality into some other existing pages, and cannot figure out how to best go about implementing such 'overrides' The idea is to add a new tab to /Main/Settings/Device?name=diskN to allow users add a note associated with the disk. Then, on pages where disks are listed (Dashboard, Main etc.), add an icon or rollover state to each disk to display the note. What's the best way to add functionality into /webgui/plugins/dynamix/ ? Can I dynamically create / replace pages in there from my own plug in? Surely not sustainable in the case of updates etc? I've had a good read through what's available in this forum, tried several search terms, and poked about a lot in existing plugins. The closest I could find to something I'm trying is @Squid's Docker Folder, which adds a button to a specific page in the UI. Are there any other plugins that add new pages or extra functionality to existing pages that I could look at? Any pointers appreciated. I'm just looking for a push in the general direction. Bonus question: how to gain access to the webGui design sub forum? Some of my searching led to threads there, but I'm not permitted to read them.
  8. Not quite thin client, but I use these Av Access HDBaseT extenders to pipe VMs from my unRaid server to wherever I need them around the house https://amzn.to/3ZIEYZt The transmit up to 4K HDMI, USB and audio. On the client side I have a display, keyboard, mouse and speakers. They are a wonderful solution, very stable and flexible (PoE) on one end so only need to power one of them. The only real drawback I've come across is that they don't like high bandwidth USB devices. I can get my mouse and keyboard to work, but a set of USB Harmon Kadron Soundsticks are just too much for the setup. I'm have a USB soundcard plugged in on the server side and use the audio jack on the devices and that works great. I wrote up a blog post a few years ago on this. Given I'm still using the devices years later (typing on a VM now in my house from an unRAID server in another building), I'd say they are keepers.
  9. My go file is likely around 10 years old, so there may be several flukes holding things together!
  10. Thanks. After a frustrating afternoon of troubleshooting and restarts, the root cause has become annoyingly clear. It seems that the update from 6.10.3 to 6.11.5 caused management access settings to revert defaults, so I lost my custom port and ssh log in ability. Grrrr I'm sure this fact is buried in release notes somewhere and there's good reason for it, but it caught me out big time. It's the first time since the 4.x days that an update has gone somewhat awry, and that includes three complete system hardware swap outs, so all in all, not a bad run. I'll try the update again later in the week and see how it goes.
  11. Happily running on 6.10.3 for many months and finally updated to 6.11.5 via WebUI. On reboot, I had no network access to my webUI (192.168.1.199:1234). I attached a display and saw the system was booting as far as the point where my GPU is handed off to the system for VM use. I tried booting in safe mode, but the boot process stalled at an AMD VI error (not noted). I could not ssh into the system in either case. I took the USB to another machine and restored to 6.11.1 from the 'previous' folder. Now, my system boots and I know it's operational as I see a VM on the GPU and my Kodi clients can access media through Emby Server docker on the system. However, I have the following odd behaviour (all on 6.11.1 after restore from 6.11.5); I can successfully SSH into the server as root during the boot process. SSH user seems to be booted out somewhere during the OS startup (so I have ssh access for a very limited time) After startup, no SSH is possible (connection refused) Web GUI is not accessible at any point I can ping the server at any time, and it appears to have started up correctly as VMs and Dockers are operational, but docker UIs are not accessible I can sometimes access shares to mount from machines on the network, but such access needs to be instigated afresh - any previous mounted shares fail and I must (on MacOS), select connect server and enter SMB URL. Even then, connection is very slow to initiate and access is glacial. I've tried, without success; deleting 0kb SSH keys restarting my network router (Unifi USG) restrating unRaid server I did manage to manually edit VFIO to remove GPU binding and generated diagnostics in safe GUI mode. I guess if I can get this figurerd out for 6.10.3, I can apply learnings to 6.11.x tower-diagnostics-20221203-0535.zip
  12. meep

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    I had a big roundy birthday recently and it started me thinking about all the consumer technology I've seen either invented or popularised so far in my lifetime. Highlights include; VCR Mobile Phone Compact Disk Home Computers Unraid Internet Electric & Self-Driving vehicles Solar PV I'm sure there's a ton of stuff I'm forgetting, including advancements in medicine, science etc. I love telling the kids about the times before all of these. But I also am excited for the future, or as much of it as I will see. What are the big ticket items we can expect or anticipate in the next 50 years? (assuming we don't destroy the planet before then).
  13. Just picked up a Ryzen 5 5600G on Amazon.co.uk for £129.98, down from £289.50, a 55% saving. They also have other bargains like Ryzen 5 5600X for £182.99 (-35%) and Ryzen 7 5700G for £204.99 (-49%). Lots of other variants as well. Good deals if you're thinking of building out an unraid server.
  14. Are you sure that you are mounting the unRaid share in Debian, and not one of the share folders on one of the array drives? How many drives are assigned to your share? The above behaviour could happen if you mounted a share folder, instead of the share. When unRaid creates files, they could be written to a different disk and therefore would not show up in Debian? Can't think of anything else.
  15. Hi @Ricardo Maranhao I managed to cobble together a quick tutorial. Let me know if that's clear, helpful, or if you have any further questions that I could address in the article. https://mediaserver8.blogspot.com/2022/05/mapping-additional-and-network-drives.html
  16. Not off hand. If I get a chance I'll try too write up a short blog post later
  17. Yes, inside your vm, you can mount any unRAID share just like you would from a regular PC. It behaves just like a network volume. This is a good solution. I run blueiris in a Windows VM for my security cameras. I have an unassigned disk passed through to the VM for recording storage / scratch The VM sees this as a locally mounted HD. I also have a an unRAID share mounted in the VM as a network drive. Here, BlueIris moves ‘motion’ tagged clips nightly. Works really well.
  18. Qcow2 images don’t auto-shrink when data is removed, afaik. i found this on the inter web describing how trimming is possible if the vm is set up just right. I’ve never tried it in unRAID, but it should work. There may be other solutions as well; https://kparal.wordpress.com/2017/10/06/automatically-shrink-your-vm-disk-images-when-you-delete-files/
  19. Nvme drives run hotter than other drive types. This is normal. If you are worried, you can add a heat sink to the nvme drive. in unRAID, you can adjust the warning temps for individual drives on the disk settings tab. Look at the SMART section. I have warning and critical temps for nvmes set to 55 and 65 Celsius respectively. This way, you prevent worrisome but unnecessary warnings in the UI.
  20. the bus/slot assignments within each vm are independent of other VMs and relate to virtual hardware of that specific vm only. You seem to be saying that you are striving to use unique slots across different vms? This is not necessary. You can use bus 0, slot 5 in all vms if you want. You only need to take care that you do not try to pass the same physical device in your server to more than one vm that you intend to run simultaneously.
  21. Folks, been using MacInABox (clover flavour) for a long time with no problems. However, recently the SSD I was using for the VM died (complete failure). Needed to re-install and retrieve files from TimeMachine, I updated MacInABox and successfully got my Catalina back up and running on OpenCore. (AMD RX580 GPU passed through). Except it's not stable. The main problems are; 1. Network access to unRaid shares is glacial, though internet browsing is OK. (I have e1000-82545em configured, no issues accessing shares from a real Mac) 2. Programs (in particular Adobe Illustrator) is causing the OS to freeze regularly 3. Playing any video file in a browser will always cause the OS to freeze after 15-20 seconds. Rebooting the VM fixes the OS freeze, until the next time. I'm not at all familiar with OpenCore so am really stuck as to where I can even start to troubleshoot. Rock Solid on Clover. Multiple Problems on Open Core. Any insights? Back to clover?
  22. Yep, this is the time to buy. 18TB showing at €309 for me in UK store. Bought a few 14TBs last year and they're great.
  23. Hi @jbartlett Suggested Feature: So one thing I struggle with in my server is keeping track of what the various drives are used for. unRaid itself does not provide a way to annotate drives or add a memo etc. In my case, I have a number of unassigned SSDs and other drives passed through to various VMs and for other uses. Diskspeed docker does a great job of visually representing the drives, and the capacity overlay is super useful. For me, a great addition would be the ability to manually add an additional text memo to some / all drives to help me quickly remember what that specific drive is used for (without needing to sift through VM configs etc.) I've visualised something here to get the idea across; You can see that I can determine from the titles that most of these are array drives, but those on Ports 6 & 7 are not. In a few months after setting stuff up, I'd love a handy reminder of what those drives are doing in my system. You see here that I mocked-up an additional text overlay where I can set a reminder for these specific disks. It wouldn't even need to be a separate field. If the existing disk size overlay could be amended to take custom text, that would work too (I'd be happy to manually add the capacity to my custom label) For me, this would be a great feature. Thanks for considering it.
  24. A quick web search suggests corrupt disk. Glad it's not critical.
  25. I've found that the most reliable way to get rid of obstinate files is via the command line. SSH into your unRaid system as root and navigate to the directory in question. To see all files, including invisible, with extended info, issue; ls -a -l Then, from within the directory; rm -r -f * (be super careful with that one, it's force remove all files in the current directory, including all files and folders within folders - issuing that in the wrong place can wipe drives) If that doesn't work, you may need more expert guidance that I can give.