Jerry

Thanks for the tip, Bubba! I’ve been able to get the packages I think are necessary in there, but now I’m being held up because I don’t have the kernel headers. I can’t compile the VMware modules without them. Can I get them for unRAID or do I need to recompile the kernel?

It seems an awful waste to me to only have my server host files. Before migrating to unRAID my home server was Red Hat 9 (it ran for years) and hosted a pair of Windows Virtual Machines. The Windows VMs were nice because it let me offload my large FTP and P2P transfers, and a great number of other behind-the-scenes processes off of my main PC. The new replacement server has a decent dual-core CPU (Pentium D 805) that just sits idle all day. My intention is to get VMware Server up and running on this new box so I can reclaim the same functionality I had with my old one, but with the benefits of unRAID. Has anyone tried installing VM Server on unRAID? So far I'm hitting a wall when I try to compile the VM Server modules because I can't seem to find and load the compiler libraries.

Oops! Sorry, I assumed you were using the 4.1 release and it still didn't work. If your system is rockin' on 4.1 then I need a setup like yours

I've been looking into this as well since I'm very interested in that motherboard. If we can get this figured out then I'll plunk down my cash for a license. It looks like the Linux kernels above 2.6.19 have support for the controller (PATA_IT821X). unRAID 4.1 runs on 2.6.22 so that probably explains why you see it identified in your boot logs. My research shows an oddity of that embedded driver is that it treats the IX821X IDE RAID controller as a SCSI controller thus assigning the drives as /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc. Are you familiar enough with the Linux terminal prompt to see if you can pull up information about those drives? What do you get when you execute hdparm -i /dev/sda and hdparm -i /dev/sdb I think one will show up as the flash drive and the other as your hard drive.