Kev600

I bought an HP ML310e as an upgrade to my old solid HP Gen7 NL40.. It came with the onboard B120i controller which I use for my main unraid Array.. No issues.. It also had an HP 420 card, so I bought a used 5.25" 4-bay 2.5" IcyDock housing and cabling.. but it wouldn't 'see' the drives...Unless I used a direct SATA connection.... 😫 I dug around a little and learned about the HBA mode... then found this guide which resolved the issue - allowing me to expand my unraid drive capacity to 8 and use SSD cache disks... THANK YOU rmp5s! 🤘

After changing my Parity drive, as expected, I got 'Fix common problems' flagging my HGST 8TB disk with 'write cache disabled on parity' But, I'm getting this: /dev: setting drive write-caching to 1 (on) HDIO_DRIVE_CMD(setcache) failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device I've tried it after this; smartctl -s wcache-sct,ata,p /dev/sdb The behaviour did not change. ______________UNTIL I STOPPED THE ARRAY FIRST!

Please please can this be added - I'm just about to splash out on better hardware to use VM's more with my UNRaid set up. Snapshots are one of 'THE' benefits of VM management. 🙏