upraider

Hi, unraiders! My first unRAID server (tiny Sempron with 2TB disks) has been rock solid for several years, 7/24, serving as simple smb machine. Its time to get paid licence . Good imvestment for future system expansion is SUPERMICRO X11SSM-F motherboard. This particular mobo works with Unbuffered ECC DDR4 2400MHz. Supermicro Tested memory list is made of only several Samsung and Hynix brand modules. None of these are available in my country yet, without waiting. Some says here that they are just putting ordinary Kingston ECC on Supermicro boards. Others mention that Supermicro server boards are very picky about memory. I can gan get several products of (8Gb) Kingston modules here: — KTH-PL424E/8G, (DDR4, 2400MHz, CL17, unbuffered, ECC) — KCP-424ES8/8, (DDR4, 2400MHz, CL17, unbuffered, ECC) — KTD-PE424E/8G (DDR4, 2400MHz, CL17, unbuffered, ECC) — KVR21E15D8/8 (ValueRAM, DDR4, 2133MHz CL15, unbuffered, ECC) May be someone can confirm compatibility of one of these with this quite popular Supermicro mobo? ——— My choosen build list: SUPERMICRO X11SSM-F motherboard; Intel Xeon E3-1220V5 - 3 GHz - 4 cores - 4 threads - 8 MB cache - LGA1151 - for ProLiant DL20 Gen9; or Intel Pentium G4560 - 3.5 GHz - 2 cores - 4 threads - 3 MB cache - LGA1151; Seasonic S12II-620 Bronze - ATX12V - 80 PLUS Bronze - 620 Watt - active PFC; Samsung 850 PRO SSD for cache; WD Gold Datacenter Hard Drive WD4002FYYZ for parity. Thanks in any case.

Heres my sad story from software section of this forum, too. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6281.0 If you disable onboard nic and use el-cheapo PCI gigabit nic, this board works fine.

Well, from last time I was here my M4A78L-M LE based unraid server is uptime 7/24, rock stable and serving as storage for 5 computer workgroup, prepress environment, both Macs and PCs. As I mentioned, one issue was network chip -- it's DIFFERENT than on M4A78L-M ! Never fully worked, so I' m using additional gigabit PCI network card. Regarding bootup problem I mentioned -- Unraid stops on boot seconds counting, so I need to press "Enter" to continue booting -- will check tomorrow in place, but I think this problem is still there. But one can press that button few times a year, so .. can live with that Thanks Joe L. for posting warning. Keep good work. -------- Asus M4A78L-M LE | Sempron LE-140 (45nm) | 2Gb Kingston DDR2 | Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5Tb (parity) + Samsung F1 1Tb + Samsung F1 1Tb | 2Gb Kingston C-10 flashdrive | 350W power supply

Purchased this mobo for my first upRAID rig. Did small research here for recomendations -- about "ASUS M4A78L-M passes unRAID level 1 test" here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5642.0 Sadly, I purchased M4A78L-M LE board, which I thought to be the same mobo, just without DVI and HDMI connectors ... I was wrong. Don't know the reason for Asus engineers to design one mobo a.k.a. LE (Light Edition?) on top on another board and put different NIC chip there ... Same chipset, both has 6 SATA sockets, Gigabit eth., both mobos mATX. M4A78L-M LE: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=6n45NEbiIBfrqfgn M4A78L-M: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=YagmSfSD3EvKe6g7 Installed unRAID v.4.5.3. It's easy to get USB flash bootable in BIOS. Basically this LE mobo works fine, except two issues -- onboard NIC and "upraiders favorite startup bug", as I can call it. Story about onboard Atheros nic is here: New unRAID install, cannot copy to-from Tower http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6281.0 Secondly, in a moment of time -- I haven'nt noticed when -- I cannot get bootup process past that first unRAID boot selection, when you choose to boot unRAID linux or Memtest+. Count never starts, stuck at 5. So I must press Enter on keyboard to start unRAID. Not good. Experimented with several BIOS settings to no avail. Now taking out that additional Realtek PCI card to see its related or not. Will summarize later.

-- I am talking about to/from unRaid copying only, of course. Thanks for answers, so, here's the beef: That's network chip on motherboard.. I borrowed Realtek GigaNIC PCI card from other machine, disabled onboard Atheros on mobo, powered up unRaid rig .. and everything's fine. Copying both directions works, from Mac and PC. From this point I can go and purchase additional GigaNIC card, but just wondering is there any possibility to get onboard NIC working... Because all admin activities works with onboard nic, only file copying not. Somebody has to say something about jumbo-frames, disabling anything in linux guts? Thank you, all, for answers, anyway.

Thank you for answer. Yes, I checked syslog, but (for me) it shows nothing suspicious. Should there be any syslog records about file copying activity? Is it OK just to post last syslog here? Parity finished without errors. All looks ideal, except I cannot copy to-from. Thats very strange. When I copy file to Tower from MacOSX (both L&SL), Finder shows Error -51, file appears on destination with zero size. When copying file to Mac, again Error -51, file lands on desktop but is corrupted. May be its already got bad on Tower, when upped from Win machine. Cannot copy back from Win mahine too. Sometimes I can upload file from Win, but it looks like it got corrupted anyway. My final thoughts now is - may be network chip on motherboard is not compatible? I found info about "ASUS M4A78L-M passes unRAID level 1 test" here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5642.0 Being in a bad mood I purchased M4A78L-M LE board, which I thought to be the same without DVI and HDMI connectors ... but I was wrong. Board mentioned as working has Realtek 8112L network chip, LE variant has Atheros. The only info I got is: Gb Atheros PCIe LAN. Any thoughts? P.S. Sorry for wrong section post, if its really hardware issue :-)

Newbie. Checked forums, purchased hardware, downloaded v.4.5.3. Specs below. Set up OK, web interface works, SATA disks shows up, parity finished in 10 hours without errors. No user shares (basic vers.), disk shares mounts on WinXP and Mac OSX .. but cannot copy a file to / from share! Copied files sometime shows zero size, sometime looks OK with correct size but cannot copy back. Can create directories, copy files to newly created directory and .. no way back! When touching these files on unRaid, WinXP machine freezes, open windows from unRaid share becomes unresponsive, etc. Ironically, I cannot copy back saved syslog.txt file from Flash share, too. Where to look now? BIOS sett.? AHCI to IDE? Some unknown to me nettwork settings? P.S. Parity disk is Seagate ST31500341AS - 1.5Tb - but already on CC firmware, so no Seagate bug here. P.S.S. Installed two times from scratch... --- Asus M4A78L-M LE / 2Gb Kingston DDR2 / Seagate 1.5Tb + Samsung 1Tb + Samsung 1Tb / 2Gb Kingston C_10 / 350W Altis