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I think you'd be surprised. I doubt your graphics card is the "power hog." The AsRock Extreme series motherboards draw a LOT of power (the newest version draws about 55w just for the motherboard). I suspect your motherboard is drawing 30+ watts just by itself. Assuming you used a low-end video card, it shouldn't draw more than 5-10 watts. Yeah you could be right, I can't remove the graphics card to confirm annoyingly. I don't even know what model card it is, its just one I had lying around. Motherboard power use was another thing I didn't consider - I'd assumed minimal use, but maybe not. Live and learn i guess - I'll know better for next time

Do you have a graphics card installed (I don't see one in your sig)? If so removing that might save 30w or so if you can run headless. With all of my drives powered down my setup is pulling 80w which is more than I was hoping for when I built the server. However I hadn't considered the impact of a graphics card and therefore didn't specifically look for a mobo that allowed me to run without one, which is annoying! I'm assuming that it is the graphics card pulling the extra juice over my cpu which is 34w I believe, but I might be wrong. I turn my server off at night using the powerdown script available on this site (with a cron job scheduled in my go script) and use the bios to auto wake it the next morning. I've considered changing my mobo for one I can run headless, but if you do the maths the investment works out to be a hell of a lot of electricity (years) to use before even breaking even. I don't think you've stated your power consumptions, but I'd imagine unless you are using a huge amount this would be the same for you.

I had this problem when I tried to get sleep to work with my system too. One question I have for the people suggesting its hardware related... why does it work flawlessly with windows on the same hardware?

anyone notice that the reboot and powerdown buttons are greyed out when you choose to turn off confirmations in simplefeatures settings?

I've seen the same thing. Usually it happens the first visit to the unraid UI and a refresh makes it display properly. I've seen it happen on multiple devices/browsers, so I don't think it is device specific.

To answer your questions: In unRaid you can have "user shares" which appear to you as one folder even though the data could be stored across multiple drives. So yes you can have a Media user share which spans as many drives as you like and to an end user it will look like one huge folder. If one drive fails, then unRaid 'simulates' the data on that drive until you replace and rebuild it, so the files WILL be accessible whilst the rebuild is in progress. This is only for one drive though... lose two and you are in trouble! If the parity drive fails, then all of your data drives are still fine. You just replace your parity drive and rebuild it. For the time that you do not have a parity drive then your data drives are unprotected. You would be unlucky to lose a data drive during that period, but is is possible of course. All down to how fast you can replace the parity drive after failure.

Does it keep a history of this information? If not, can I add it as a feature request

I was wondering exactly the same thing... Of course we could use math to work out the average, but I've seen other people pasting in the line above. Where does that line come from?

Hi all, was copying files to my server today when I got a roughly 1 min hang or pause in the middle of the copy process. When checking the syslog it showed these errors: Jul 25 13:22:54 Tower kernel: mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31126000): Originator={PL}, Code={Abort}, SubCode(0x6000) cb_idx mptbase_reply Jul 25 13:22:57 Tower kernel: mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31126000): Originator={PL}, Code={Abort}, SubCode(0x6000) cb_idx mptbase_reply Jul 25 13:22:58 Tower kernel: mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31126000): Originator={PL}, Code={Abort}, SubCode(0x6000) cb_idx mptscsih_io_done (Drive related) Jul 25 13:22:58 Tower last message repeated 63 times Jul 25 13:22:58 Tower kernel: mptbase: ioc0: LogInfo(0x31170000): Originator={PL}, Code={IO Device Missing Delay Retry}, SubCode(0x0000) cb_idx mptscsih_io_done (Drive related) Jul 25 13:23:01 Tower last message repeated 255 times Jul 25 13:23:01 Tower kernel: Device returned, unsetting inDMD Just to confirm this is RC5. Am unsure if these errors relate to the temporary hang - but they are at the same time.

actually i managed to grab a syslog after a wake, which shows a lot of errors (attached) Am guessing these aren't helping! Edit: and now after a reboot I have a drive red balled... syslog.txt

It doesn't help, but I have exactly the same problem. From what I gather the lack of video on the screen is common, even in a windows install - but the fact the server is offline is more of a problem. I'd like to be at least able to see the syslog to try to identify what has happened, but with no console thats impossible.

just tried flashing my Br10i and got the following output: Adapter Selected is a LSI SAS 1068E(B3): Executing Operation: Flash Firmware Image Checksum Passed: 00000000 Verifying NVDATA Compatibility. . . NVDATA Versions Compatible Product ID and Vendor ID do not match. Would you like to flash anyway [y/n]? Valid BootLoader Image verified. Flashing IT Firmware over IR Firmware! Would you like to flash anyway [y/n]? Beginning Firmware Download Firmware Download: SUCCESSFUL! Verifying the image flashed correctly. . . Firmware Flash: SUCCESSFUL! Resetting Adapter: Adapter Successfully reset. Executing Operation: Flash BIOS Image Validating BIOS Image. . . BIOS Header Signature Valid. Checksum Passed: 00000000 BIOS Image compatible with the SAS Controller. Attempting to Flash BIOS Image. . . ERROR: Failed to Upload Firmware! BIOS Flash: FAILED! Due to error remaining commands will not be executed. Unable to Process Commands. Exiting SASFlash. Can anyone advise what I should do next? Does this leave my card in a useable scenario, with firmware flashed but bios not?

I decided to give this version a go in SimpleFeatures, but the -e command is not working. I think it is because the code is not wrapping "" around the folder names in the -e command?

Check your sys log from telnet... those symptoms sound slightly like the BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED error. Sadly the server isn't on the network so I cant telnet in and also there is no video posted so can't use the console either. How do you connect to your server? Hi Joe, not sure what you mean? The server boots and works fine, then I put to sleep using the simple features plugin. It wakes OK and continues to work until after the 2nd or 3rd sleep when at that point the server is not on the network and the console is blank. I think the console being blank is a common problem with video not being reposted after a sleep. I can live with that as I rarely use the console anyway. However because the server is not on the network I can't telnet in to see a syslog. I've also tried adding the following commands into the "custom commands after wake-up" section, but they don't seem to get executed (even when the server wakes correctly): cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog-post-sleep.txt chmod a-x /boot/syslog-post-sleep.txt Is there another way of somehow copying the syslog to the flash after the server wakes so i can try to catch what is happening?

Check your sys log from telnet... those symptoms sound slightly like the BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED error. Sadly the server isn't on the network so I cant telnet in and also there is no video posted so can't use the console either.

Has anyone who is using the sleep plugin had problems with the server waking up correctly the 2nd or 3rd time? I thought this was just a realtek issue, but even with my intel nic, the server is still doing this. The server is online, but not on the network - and i suspect that the server isnt working as the drives don't appear to be spun down after a long time of waiting.

This is exactly what I have just done. My new mobo had a realtek gigabit onboard network adapter and I've been trying to get wol to work properly for the last few days. So I gave in and bought an intel pcie card and guess what - everything works exactly as you would expect including sleep!

I've just bought an asrock p67 extreme which also has 10 sata ports, some using the Marvell SE9120 chipset. Unraid seems to see them fine in my setup and everything has been working fine for a couple of days now Edited to add I am using all 10 slots.

Interested to know the answer to this myself. Also when the server wakes from sleep, can all drives stay powered down until accessed?

Hi all, well my new mobo has this network chip on board - Realtek RTL8111E - and in basic mode it seems to be working OK. However when trying to setup jumbo frames to 9k using ifconfig, it won't allow me to. The specs say it supports up to 9k, but the best i can set to is 7200 via unraid v5b14. Is this a driver problem with the version of unraid or am i doing something wrong?

Just wanted to post that this board works OK with unraid. Am using all 10 ports directly on the board and parity check completed OK and seems stable.

Actually i did try finding a board with two x16 slots, but from what I saw those were more expensive anyway and not a huge saving over the mobo i've bought. Having said that there wasn't an easy way to search for boards with 2 x16 slots.. so i may have missed some cheaper ones! Ah well

Its a good question which also had me undecided for a while too. I was struggling to find a mobo which also had PCIe x8 for the IBM card at a reasonable price. It turned out to be only £30 difference between the cheapest other board i could find that had a x8 slot, so for that difference it seemed to make sense to have the extra sata slots. Also, I needed 12 sata ports to cover the drives i already have, so buying a mobo with 6 + 8 on the M1015 that only left 2 slots spare for future upgrades. I got the BR10i cheap (half the price of the supermicro and M1015) too, so I was trying to factor all of this in to the decision!

keep in mind the br10i is limited to 2tb drives when making future upgrades/drive purchases. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Thanks John, yep I'd read that. Hopefully with 10 ports on my mobo, I should be able to fit any new drives to that instead of the Br10i

Yeah but would it cause a freeze when running a parity check?