jimwhite

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  1. what sort of Adaptec controller?
  2. I have 8gb as well.... Bring on PAE 64bit next
  3. actually there is a thread over at avs which proclaims BD+ cracked, and people are actively working on such apps....
  4. since this IS the lounge area, I think a thread or two on such uses which "surround" unraid would be welcome here....
  5. doing a little research on hddtemp says that it uses smart interface as well....
  6. between unmenu, bubbaraid and all of these various scripts running around in different threads, I'm lost.... I've gone back to a basic unraid 4.3.3 for now... I'm not a total newbie, but I cannot follow where all these things fork-off... too many threads with different versions of the same thing and a total lack of cohesion guys... we need to get this under control!
  7. wow !!! that on top of almost +900 for the stock market
  8. I don't think so... I was real careful to balance the loading.
  9. Tread carefully here... you're traveling amongst the world of specsmanship... I suggested the Corsair 750 due to real world experience, not as a result of examining the "specs"... my systems has had as many as 14 drives, not earth shaking, but substantial... I've had two other power supplies in it, an OCZ 600 watt and a Seasonic 650 watt... with both supplies (mostly with the OCZ) the machine would re-boot when I hit the button to spin up all drives. Power calculations aside, as they predicted "no problem ", I think actual results count for a lot more credibility.... I can only say that the Corsair 750 runs cool (speaks to efficiency) and doesn't sag under load... YMMV
  10. Make: Corsair Wattage: 750W Model: CMPSU-750TX Other: 120mm Fan, 80+% Efficiency, Single +12V 60 amp Rail. URL: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139006 Cool as a cucumber
  11. Actually, the Corsair 750 has a remarkably flat efficiency curve, which has a slight peak at ~40%.... very nice
  12. If the kicker disk is DOS based, maybe the Flash has to be formatted FAT and not Fat32.... DOS cannot read FAT32 disks if I recall....
  13. If you keep an eye on EBay, periodically the AB9pro's appear as factory refurbs for about $49... I bought two, and both work fine... one for my server, one in the closet as a backup PBTW, the first AB9pro I bought was from Newegg for $99, and it was DOA
  14. Found these two threads which might be of some use in the future if you have to deal with a corrupted disk... http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_recovery_howto.comments http://martian.org/marty/2003/09/05/reiserfs-filesystem-recovery/ {EDIT} Also http://homes.cerias.purdue.edu/~florian/reiser/reiserfs.php is a detailed discussion of the file system's structure....
  15. Sorry for being a bit off topic, but a lot of you have these drives and I could use your insight... Several months ago I bought a 1tb WD MyBook on sale at Costco. After playing a while, I yanked the drive for my HTPC since they are supposed to run nice and cool, and stuck a 300gb Segate in the case and gave it to my daughter. Recently I ran a smart test on the drive and noticed that the Reallocated Sector Count failed and was at 140 (using smart status from Everest and Smartctl.exe). I RMA'd the drive with an advanced replacement. The new drive arrived yesterday and I quickly attached it to my PC and ran a smart check. Cool... Reallocated Sector Count read 0. I fired up a live linux cd of Clonezilla and copied the old drive's partitions to the new drive. Lo and behold, now the NEW drive fails smart with EXACTLY the same number of Reallocated Sectors. I downloaded the WD diagnostics and it fails the new drive, BUT, the smart status in the WD program lists a Reallocated Sector Count of 1 and a threshold value of 140. Is there a dialect problem here? Why would one Reallocated Sector fail the drive? And how did it get there? Anyone got any clues?
  16. Does the CPU fan speed indicate at all in the bios? I've had this wailing several times and it was always the tach lead making poor contact on the CPU Fan connector. My parity check speed builds up and is faster at about 60-80%, then begins to slow down again, all 1 tb drives (9x). Peaks at about 90 MB/sec, averages in the 70's.... Parity sync runs around 50, since it's doing a write to the parity drive instead of just reading. Tonight I add 3 more 1 tb drives and fill up the slots... thank God... my credit card is limp
  17. Do the drives show up correctly in the bios post screens? Have you configured the drives (in bios) to use AHCI?
  18. FORTUNATELY, my array is now full of 12 x 1tb Seagates.... no more empty-slot syndrome