davephan

I have a LSI 9300-16i HBA flashed in IT mode not working with Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 system board. When I attempt to boot the system board, the POST freezes and does not complete. The Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 system board was purchased in 2010, so it's 16 years old. When I use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 rev 1.01 drive controller board, the system board boots up properly and boots into the UnRAID flash drive. If I boot up the system board without the LSI 9300-16i or Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, the system board also boots successfully and boots into the UnRAID flash drive. The Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 uses Marvell technology, which is not recommended for UnRAID. There's may be a compatibility problem between the Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 system board, and I might need to replace the system board with a new system board, CPU, cooler, and memory, refreshing the hardware. Does anyone have recommendations to refresh a 16 year old system board, that's compatible with an LSI 9300-16i HBA flashed in IT mode?

Here is another diagnostics scan after replacing and syncing the second parity drive. Now, the two parity drives have been replaced. I've learned that SAS drives are a better choice than SATA drives for a NAS server after watching several YouTube videos about SAS and SATA hard drives. I'm considering replacing the SATA parity drives with larger SAS drives, then eventually replacing the data drives with larger SAS drives. I don't believe that my system board supports greater than 2TB SATA drives natively. Before replacing the 15 year old Supermicro MBD-X8SIL-F-0 system board, CPU, memory, and power supply, I'm considering adding a 12 or 16 HBA drive controller card to the computer. Can both SAS and SATA drives be used on the same HBA drive controller? Or, do all the drives have to be all SATA or all SAS? Thanks for your opinions on how to treat SMART errors! unraid-diagnostics-20250921-1927.zip

Here's the updated diagnostics file after replacing the Parity 1 drive. I'm now pre-clearning another drive to replace the Parity 2 drive. unraid-diagnostics-20250919-2331.zip

How do I run an extended SMART test? What are acceptable and unacceptable parameters? I'm not sure what disks in good condition should look like. I swapped out the parity 1 drive that ends with "3443" with another 2TB SATA drive that I already precleared. The parity-sync in in progress, almost 8 hours with about 6 hours to go. I can take another "diagnostics" after the parity-sync completes. I have another 2TB SATA drive to replace the parity 2 drive that ends with "1711", but I need to run the preclear process on that drive. Usually, it takes about one day to run the pre-clear, Pre Read / Erasing / Zeroing / Post Read process. Then I could try replacing the parity 2 drive that ends with "1711", and take another "diagnostics" after that.

I attached the diagnostic files. The two 2TB SATA parity drive both have a SMART error displayed on the Dashboard web page. unraid-diagnostics-20250919-0907.zip

I'm in the process of rebuilding my 15 year old UnRAID server. I replaced the UnRAID version 4.7 boot USB with an UnRAID version 7.1.2 boot USB. I'm extracting all the data from the data drives that are formatted with the defunct Reiserfs format, one by one, with DiskInternals Linux Reader, and transferring the data to the new rebuild, using XFS formatted drives. My motherboard is a Supermicro MBD-X8SIL-F-0 https://www.supermicro.com/products/archive/motherboard/x8sil?IPMI=Y The CPU is an Intel i3 CPU540 dual core @ 3.07 GHz with 4 gigs of DDR3 single-bit ECC memory. All drives are 2 TB SATA. The "Fix Common Problems" plug-in reports that I am using a Marvel drive controller, which could be problematic for UnRAID. I think the motherboard, CPU, and memory will need to be replaced, since they were purchased in 2010. I am getting a SMART error on each of the two parity drives. I'm not sure how I determine the cause of the SMART errors and how to fix them. I believe that the motherboard only supports up to 2 TB drive sizes and would like to upgrade the drives to larger drives, starting with the parity drives. My questions are how do I fix the SMART errors on the two parity drives? Can a SATA 16 drive controller that would allow my old motherboard to accept much larger SATA hard drives, while still using the old Supermicro motherboard? Which 16 SATA drive controller is recommended? Many years ago, I saw hardware recommendations for building UnRAID servers. In the near future, I would also like to have a general hardware recommendation which motherboard, CPU, and memory that I should buy to replace my 15 year old hardware. I built 3 computers 15 years ago using Intel processors. I wonder if today, AMD processors might be a better choice for the CPU than using Intel processors.

How do I get the diagnostics zip file from the flash drive? I tried to create a share for the flash drive, and that wasn't an option. I could shutdown the UnRAID server to copy the diagnostics file to another computer so I can attach it to the forum post. Is there another way that I can get the diagnostics zip file off of the UnRAID server without shutting down the UnRAID server? I am running preclear with erase on the first parity drive with over 10,000 errors at the top of the Main page, plus I am running preclear with erase on another 2 TB data drive that I'm adding to the UnRAID server. It's probably going to take about two days to complete the preclear and erase process.

Thanks for answering my questions. I have the UnRAID 7.1.4 server running and licensed now, except that I am running into parity drive errors that I posted on another posting.

I rebuilt my old UnRAID 4.7 server, building a new UnRAID 7.1.4 server from scratch, re-using the old hard drives. I copied data from the old "reiserfs" formatted drives to portable USB hard drives, then added five drives to the new UnRAID 7.1.4 server build. I have two 2TB parity drives and three 2 TB data drives. Before adding the drives to the new UnRAID 7.1.4 server build, I ran the preclear and erase on each drive. I also formatted each drive with the XFS format. When I started the UnRAID array, it took over 24 hours to complete the parity. I then copied 150 gigs of data onto the data drive 1. After the file copying was completed, the parity drive 1 had 526 errors and parity drive 2 had 0 errors on the UnRAID "Main" web page. I then ran a parity check again, which ran for 17 hours and 38 minutes. The parity check reported "Finding 0 errors" near the bottom of the "Main" page. However, parity drive 1 has 14,174 errors and parity drive 2 has 63 errors at the top of the UnRAID "Main" web page. I saw a YouTube video were a commenter of the YouTube video who had parity drive errors, stated that they Unassigned the parity drive, stopped the array, started the array and started a preclear on the parity drive, then after a few minutes stopped the preclear, then stopped the array. Then they started the array, and the parity rebuilt without any errors. I don't know that could be a valid solution or not. How many errors are acceptable for the parity drives on the UnRAID "Main" web page? Is that zero errors? I've also thought about replacing the parity hard drives. The 2TB SATA hard drives are 15 years old and were used for 10 years in UnRAID 4.7 server. Then the UnRAID 4.7 server was powered off for 5 years. When the old UnRAID server was powered off 5 years ago, there wasn't a problem with the parity drive. The new UnRAID 7.1.4 server build has two parity drives. Are the parity drive errors are serious problem? What are the recommended possible solutions to fix the parity drive errors?

Many years ago, I bought UnRAID version 4.7 on two different USB flash drives. One flash drive is running the UnRAID version 4.7 computer, the other is a spare UnRAID 4.7 flash drive. The license is for unlimited drives and no subscription to renew. I would like to update the version 4.7 software on one of the USB flash drives to version 7.1.4, the current version. I would then use the upgraded 7.1.4 USB flash drive to create another UnRAID computer using different hardware, and copy all the files from the version 4.7 UnRAID computer to the version 7.1.4 UnRAID computer. Then the old version 4.7 UnRAID computer will be shut down. This seems like an easier and safer way to move from version 4.7 to 7.1.4, without having to upgrade multiple times, from version 4.7 to version 5 to version 6 to version 7. Is the version 4.7 unlimited drives license with no expiration, still valid for version 7.1.4? How do I upgrade one of the version 4.7 UnRAID USB flash drives to version 7.1.4?