aethyr

I just figured it out - I had to "ENABLE" CSM in the bios menu. It was set to disabled. It now boots.

I got a new MB and CPU - a celeron G5900 with an Asus Prime H410M-A motherboard. Original USB stick that used to work didn't. So I made a new one. Neither works. However, if I try to make a generic Ubuntu install USB iso it boots up just fine, so it has nothing to do with any sort of USB bootability issue.

I think most people don't have Dell motherboards/machines. I'm using mine in an asus mini-atx and it works great.

Yeah, they're working great for me. With my onboard gigabit NIC, I was getting far below expected throughput. But this Dell Broadcom has me at the expected throughputs.

Weird. I guess nevermind. I just tried to read a large file and am now getting 70MBytes/sec. I guess something was causing a slow down, but now its fine.

Ran iperf3, got this: [SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 945 Mbits/sec sender [SUM] 0.00-10.00 sec 1.10 GBytes 942 Mbits/sec receiver Looks like network is fine?

Just upgraded to latest v6. Got a new Gbit lan card off ebay because my onboard LAN wasn't getting downgrading to 100mb. Thanks to whoever recommended me that card, sorry forget the username rn. Was very pleased to get around 30MBytes avg write speeds. But oddly, my read speed is about 1/2 that, at around 15MBytes/sec. I transferred the exact same 10GByte file, using Gb wired connection on my laptop to rule out any wireless interference that might occur during the transfers. The transfer speeds were pretty consistent, no wild swings in speeds, pretty flat graph throughout. I monitored CPU usage on the unraid server, pretty low, and certainly not higher during the reads. I only have 2 drives, 1 parity, 1 data. No cache. My client is a windows 10 laptop, using a gbit ethernet. Any ideas why my read is slower than write? Isn't it supposed to be much faster than writes?

Awesome, just ordered one from ebay! Thanks for the recommendation.

Recently upgraded my super old unraid v4.5 to v6, and everything is good...except My onboard 1000Mb LAN isn't (perhaps never) working at Gb speeds. I've tried brand new cat7 cables on my brand new Gb switch and its stuck at 100Mb transfer speeds and ethtool is showing it advertised as Gb but actual is 100Mb. Amazon shows a variety of cheap no-name Gb ethernet cards, but I'm kind of doubtful that these cards will work with unraid. Any recommendations for cheap Gb cards?

Oh that's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion!

I'm trying that with a Patriot 16GB stick and the Flash Creator is not working - getting stuck at "Syncing File System..."

I found the original email with the key...but the key is at a link that is not longer working. I guess I have to contact limetech.

So, I totally forgot about the key file and I had nuked my entire USB key by installing v6 using the USB install tool. Crap.

How do I get it recognize my license? I'm on //tower webpage and it's asking me to purchase a license or get trial key? No option for upgrade? Hmm, so I'm reading the upgrade documentation and it says I need to run the "New Permissions" tool. However, I can't run that tool because I need to have the array started, which I can't do if I don't have a license (trial or official).

So I purchased an unraid key years ago (4.5) and I'm trying to do a fresh install to v6. I figured I might as well use my old USB stick since its 2GB and worked in the past. But I can't get a trial key - it says the USB guid is registered to another user...which well, is me. Is there no way for me to re-use this USB stick? Searching on the forum says that it shouldn't happen unless its been blacklisted? But why in the world would it be blacklisted?

Ok, I changed my drives to 4TB WD Red Pro and placed the orders. Thanks for your help, much appreciated!

Thanks. I plan on the following build, can you do a quick look over and see if there's anything wrong? Is there anything holding me back in terms of read/write performance? Motherboard - ASUS Prime H310M-E R2.0 (built in Realtek® RTL8111H, 1 x Gigabit LAN) CPU - Intel Core i3-9100F Memory - 8GB CORSAIR Vengeance LPX 8GB DDR 2600 Hard drives - 2x Seagate BarraCuda 2TB (SATA6GB, 7.2krpm, 256MB cache) I recall the old unRaid had issues with certain LAN cards and hard drives. Not sure if that's still the case?

I was thinking of just copying all my unraid data to a different drive somewhere and just installing from scratch to the latest version. My hardware is pretty old, can I assume if 4.5 supported my hardware that the latest will also support it? Or do you recommend that I upgrade HW as well? I was assuming that CPU speed and memory wasn't a huge factor in performance, but maybe now it is? EDIT: I see that the latest requires a 64 bit CPU. I don't know even remember if its a 64 bit CPU. I think I'll just get new hardware. Hmm, it looks like the HW compatibility list is old. Is there a link to recommended HW or does pretty much anything work now?

I'm in a similar situation, so I'm interested in the responses. Does 6.8 fix transfer speed issues? My 4.5.4 transfers below 1MB/sec and often slower than that and constantly times out for large files, but I've just sort of accepted it as the cost of doing business. Hoping 6.X is much better.

Once again, you solved my problem Bad cabling was the culprit. Thanks again!

After getting some much appreciated help with some ACPI issues, I finally got my unRAID system up. 500GBx2, with 1 parity. The initial parity sync was at about 55MB/sec, which I understand is normal. Then I decided to transfer some files (ie write) to unraid and I'm getting about 1Mbyte/sec...horrible. So after poking around, I do an "ethtool eth0" and low and behold, my connection is at 10Mb/s! I have a linksys WRT54G router with Tomato 1.17 firmware. This router is supposed to be 10/100, so I should be getting at least a 100Mb/sec connection. I'm not entirely sure this is an unraid issue as much as a router issue, but if you have any ideas what causes a network autonegotiation to choose a slower network speed, I'd appreciate it.

impressive isn't it? Yes...I did type it in by hand. I made sure I was meticulous about it to maximize my chances of getting a solution for my problem. Anyways, I did try unraid 4.3b3 to no avail, but I will right NOW try Joe L's suggestion and report back shortly... UPDATE: SUCCESS! Thanks Joe, your suggestion worked perfectly. Now I get to play around a bit. Thanks Rob and Joe!

Its been a trial, but I finally got my USB drive working to the point it could boot. I had to run syslinux with "-ma" options, as well as buying a new flash drive, as well as fiddle with the USB settings on the MB... but at any rate, booting appears to be somewhat successful, but it seems to be getting stuck during the loading/configuration of the OS. Here are the last 10 lines of what appears on the screen: [ 48.225005 ] evgpeblk-0956 [04] ev_create_gpe_block : GPE 00 to 3F [_GPE] 8 regs on int 0x9 [ 48.226637 ] evgpeblk-1052 [03] ev_initialize_gpe_block : Found 10 Wake, Enalbed 3 Runtime GPEs in this block [ 48.227181 ] Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package initialization: ............. [ 48.230200 ] initialized 40/40 Regions 0/0 Fields 26/26 Buffers 7/28 Packages (648 nodes) [ 48.230370 ] initializing Device/Processor/ZThermal objects by executing _INI methods: . [ 48.230593 ] Executed 1 _INI methods requiring 0 _STA executions (examined 69 objects) [ 48.230769 ] ACPI : Interpreter enabled [ 48.230837 ] ACPI : (supports S0 S1 S2 S3 S4 S5) [ 48.231054 ] ACPI : Using PIC for interrupt routing [ 48.238297 ] ACPI : PIC Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) Clearly some sort of configuration or driver isn't working, but I can't tell what the problem is. Any ideas? My setup, newly built: Intel DG33TL Media Series MB (socket 775, Intel 82566DC Gigabit controller, Intel G33 Express chipset) 1.6GHz Celeron 420 1G (512x2) DDR2 I can get other flash drive based linux OS to load fine. Memtest was run all night without issues. As I understood, USB and LAN chipset were the only compatibility issues and really only the Realtek LAN was a problem...

This is what I'm afraid of...I recognize quickpar once I went to the homepage for it - its used in newsgroup binaries to rebuild RARs with missing files. Sounds promising. I wonder what the degradation rate is for HDs. PAR2 is pretty forgiving, but I believe with over 10% data corruption/missing, it starts to have trouble reconstructing the original. LovingHDTV solution seems like he built an unRAID server at his brother's house and rsyncs from his unraid to his brother's over the wire. This is similar to using an online backup service, but suffers from bandwidth limitations. Of course, another option on the horizon is blu-ray burners. Granted, they're only 25GB, but with double layer or more they could be viable...that is until you start ripping blu-ray movies to unRAID

Those are some good ideas... However, I'm extremely lazy and I'd have to find an automated solution or I'd never do it. I'm definitely thinking of a tiered approach as you - really important stuff gets backed up regularly to online storage somewhere. Semi important stuff, maybe gets put on tape on a weekly basis. And movies and such I could live with a loss. By far the largest irreplaceable data are photos and videos of the family. Here's an interesting question - does a HD have a shelf life? Meaning - if I filled a new HD with data. Unplugged it and stored it away for 50 years, will I be able to read my data from it? I may opt to just keep a collection of external HDs that I fill up once and squirrel away as permanent backup...