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root@Tower:/bin# hdparam -y /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1: issuing standby command root@Tower:/bin# hdparam -Y /dev/sda1 /dev/sda1 issuing sleep command HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(sleep) failed: Input/output error Within the UNRAID html page, the SPIN down and SPIN up button does appear to work as the icon next to the drive name does blink appropriately.

"e1000" ethernet device type emulates the Intel Pro/1000 ... and not so good prototype news on using a raw SCSI disk instead of a virtual SCSI disk ... same problem exists: UNRAID sees the drive, but a disk ID is not present so it cannot assign the dirve to the array. In my attachment you can see both raw disks I configured in the virtual machine - one of them is an IDE raw disk with ID "SATA_VMWARE_VIRTUAL ..." and the other is a buslogic SCSI raw disk that reports as "no id". BTW, I had to hack up the vmware configuration file to create a SCSI raw disk, as the workstation application was not cooperating - kept defaulting to IDE for a raw disk. A little cut-n-paste hacking fixed that up. Perhaps the lsilogic mpt fusion driver would work differently. But I need to load in onto my Vista development machine and then recompile the kernel with the mpt driver.

I'll report back the findings and write-up the whole procedure - with proper kudos to BubbaQ and WeeboTech as they helped me through the noob process for recompiling the kernel.

I have gotten over the hurdle of the 4 IDE drive limitation by recompiling the kernel with the BusLogic SCSI driver and using SCSI virtual drives. I can mount the drives just fine at command-line, and they are all available in the UNRAID device selection page. BUT, it appears that UNRAID cannot detect the model/serial number on the SCSI virtual drives so it won't go through the initialization step after selecting them in the device page. To date I have only tried associating virtual drives - think I will try designating the mapping as a physical ( raw ) drive to VMware and see if that makes a difference.

I think the 4.6.20 directory he is referencing is from the unRAID uncompressed bzroot. That's the only directory I find which has the unRAID source files like unraid.c

Which of the unRAID directories/files need to be copied over the linux-2.6.22.5 extracted kernel source directories ?

What parameters did you use on your LOADLIN to hand off the booting to unRAID ? I found the correct kicker floppy that recognizes my USB flash, but I am at a loss on the correct invocation of the LOADLIN command. EDIT: I switched to LINLD 0.97 and was able to boot UNRAID to several of my older motherboards. Find the kicker disk which has the Panasonic USB driver. That driver was the only one which recognized my motherboard USB. Create your kicker floppy and modify the AUTOEXEC.BAT file with the following LINLD command: LINLD image=c:BZIMAGE initrd=c:BZROOT "cl=root=/dev/sda1"