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    un-Linux-aware user wants to add e-mail and ftp

    in User Customizations

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    I would rate myself as an advanced PC person in the Windows world, but know little of Linux.  My Un-Raid is on 24-7 (Al Gore-acle be damned) but obviously spends a LOT of time idle.  I'm also tired of not wanting to change internet providers because of e-mail issues.  I'd like to add e-mail functionality to my Un-Raid so that it will serve as a POP3 and SMTP server, and maybe also allow ftp transfers.  Can anyone offer some guidance on how I would go about doing this?

     

    Cases

    in Hardware

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    I sent a picture of it to my son to let him know what I was drooling about these days... he said I could put a cushion on the top and use it as a stool or ottoman...  :D

     

    ::)

     

    Survey: Unraid Data transfer speed with a Gig Switch

    in unRAID Server 3.0 [No new topics]

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    Tom,

        Your explanation above is quite helpful to the semi-uninitiated amongst us.... not to pick nits (really!) but your explanation seems to tip the tilted eyebrow to the non-rounded multipliers like 1048576 and 1073741824 (attributing them to Windows jargon) in favor of the more human 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000.  Actually, in computerese (aka Binary notation) a "Killo" is 1024 and a million is a Killo-Killos and so on... the rebirth of the nice rounded numbers like 1,000,000 came about when the Disk drive manufacturers found they could inflate their drive sizes this way :)

     

    Jim

     

    Older Motherboards - No USB Boot

    in Motherboards and CPUs

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    I have a few older P4 boards around that I could use as secondary un-raid systems but they don't have USB boot.... I wonder - could the distribution be "transfered" to a bootable CD and still be keyed to the USB flash?  Could the boot be set up to start on the CD and then continue on the USB flash?

     

     

    Parity Sync taking forever

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

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    The array seemed to be operating fine.   I went ahead and loaded some data onto the drives (but not the drive that I'm suspicous of).   I rebooted to make sure everything was functioning.    Parity check initiated on reboot and I let it room.   A couple hours later I came back and the server had frozen.   The drives were all spinning but I couldn't access anything.   The monitor was blank and the web management just went to www.towerrecords.com  (which is annoying btw)

     

    I'll mess around with it more tomorrow.

     

     

    sounds like you have some memory issues.... try slowing the memory down in the bios.... i.e. change CAS=2 to CAS=2.5, for instance....

     

    Jim

     

    Updates, New Features, fixes etc.

    in Feature Requests [No new topics]

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    I have been using my own "roll-your-own" version of unraid for several months now, and have experienced little if any of the problems you see.  I did have massive problems at the outset, but I found that the specified Intel motherboard is EXTREMELY picky about what RAM it wants to run with.  I initially set up with some Corsair Cas2.5 DDR400 RAM set at DDR400 (CPU is a P4 2.8 533) and all I got on the first several boots were core-dumps... backing down to DDR333 seemed to be fine for a few boots but NOT 100%.  I then tried some Corsair Cas2 DDR400 and found the same.  I then swapped some sticks into other machines and tried with a pair of Samsung Cas2 DDR333 sticks.  MUCH better, but over the next month or so had a few odd quirks, reported Disk Errors on the web config screen, 2 bad boots, one lock up.  I manually set the Cas access from 2 to 2.5 and it's been supoer stable ever since.... not one problem or error anywhere!

     

    I agree about the throughput issues... I'm connected via an SMC jumbo-frame complient giga Switch.  Overlapped reads and writes to same/different drives seems to be bottlenecked somewhere.

     

    As to the Feature requests, number one for me is SECURITY.  I'd love to give my daughter access to my media server, but with her friends coming over and using her computer, I can't take the chance!

     

    Second would be an additional sharing configuration, be it WebDAV or whatever, something to allow more flexible sharing structure...

     

    Next, how about support for USB external drives with FAT and NTFS support, outside the array, for purposes of loading media, transferring files to/from, and maybe even backup.

     

    I realize that the space in the USB key is limited, but there is a way around it, I think, and the solution would allow the Linux savy and experimenters to build there own system the way they want.  Since the un-raid "driver" seems to load as a run time module to the OS, why not set up the protection key and it's serial number search and all that so that the driver can be loaded into any 2.4 distro so long as the USB key is present in the system, not neccessarily booted from.  I could envision a 1 gig USB key or CDROM distro (Knoppix, Slax, etc.) that boots the system and loads the un-raid from its USB drive and continues on and sets up a much more flexible system.

     

    As for where we are now, I LOVE my system so far, I think Tom has created a wonderful addition to our media arsenal that I now could not live without (well... , you know what I mean :) ).  I look forward to the evolution...

     

    8)

     

    Jim White

    Treasure Island, FL