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    Realtek RTL8111E

    in Hardware

    Posted

    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?

    Please review potential new build

    in Hardware

    Posted

    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  :)

    Please review potential new build

    in Hardware

    Posted

    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!

    Please review potential new build

    in Hardware

    Posted

    OK have bitten the bullet and ordered this hardware, along with a IBM Br10i controller.

     

    Fingers crossed everything works OK with unraid!

    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  :)

    Please review potential new build

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    well with my current server seemingly having problems and being very old, the time has arrived to upgrade to some newer technology.  To be clear cost is key to me (rather than performance) as the server will purely be used at home for very little other than storage and playback of bluray movies.  Low power is also preferred.

     

    My current server has 14 drives, 10x sata and 4 IDE drives.  This is running on an old motherboard using PCI sata cards.

     

    The only thing I am salvaging from this setup is the case and drives (excluding the IDE ones).

     

    Proposed setup

     

    Intel Celeron G440 1.60GHz Single Core Processor (35w)

    4GB Corsair Desktop 1333MHz DDR3 Memory Kit

    Corsair Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 - 80 Plus Bronze Certified 650 Watt High Performance Power Supply

    ASRock P67 Extreme6 Socket 1155 Motherboard (10 sata ports)

     

    I'm then going to need a 4 port pcie card i guess to expand to cover the IDS drives I'm losing.  Haven't found one yet.

     

    NOTE I'm in the UK.

    Please sanity check my hd swap path - NOW cannot assign a parity drive

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

    Posted

    The powersupply is a clio 550w from what I can read.  Like i say has been OK until these issues with parity recently.

     

    This one? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817189006

     

    that looks like the one.  I can only read clio x14 550w on the side without taking the server apart.  It was over 3 yrs ago i built this server now  :)

    If that is the case, you have a multi-rail power supply.  They typically only have a single 12 volt rail for ALL the disks.  You have, at best, 18 Amps for all the disks, fans, and possibly the main connector of the motherboard.

     

    Even if ALL your disks are low-power (green) disks, that is 28 Amps.  (2 Amps * 14).  Add another 3 to 5 Amps for the motherboard and fans, and you need 30 to 35 Amps.

     

    Do you see anything that might cause weird issues with disks being recognized?  Hopefully, I'm wrong about your power supply... but it is easy to see why it might not be working with that many disks and a multi-rail supply.

     

    Joe L.

     

    Hi Joe, thanks for taking the time to reply.

     

    No I haven't seen anything weird with disks being recognised, the server has worked fine until i decided to try upgrading the parity drive :(

     

    Having just read the power supply thread though I can see you are right about my power supply.  Am amazed it has worked so far.  I can only assume that because the server is mostly idle that once booted up the draw is low enough not to cause problems.

     

    I'm also using 6 hotswap drive bays which also have small fans in them, so that just adds to the power need!

     

    Its odd the issue has just started now, but I'm beginning to think its time to build a new server.  My mix of IDE/Sata and PCI controller cards is getting old now and I suppose it was a matter of time before something failed.

    Please sanity check my hd swap path - NOW cannot assign a parity drive

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

    Posted

    Well clearly i spoke too soon as the server as frozen again.

     

    I guess this must be a hardware issue then... darnit.

    start with a memory check.  Also make sure the CPU heatsink is attached correctly and did not get dislodged in your installation of the new disk.

     

    I'm seeing 14 disks in your array. (possibly more are installed, but not assigned)  Is your power supply up to the task?  What EXACT make/model is it?

     

    Hi Joe,

     

    i'll have to go and check what type the power supply is, but the whole setup has been working OK for over a year now.  Only starting having problems when I was trying to change this disk - which incidentally was an icydock caddy swap so I didnt even need to open the case.

     

    I did a parity check around a month ago which completed OK too.

     

    Will go and run a memory check now as well.

    Please sanity check my hd swap path - NOW cannot assign a parity drive

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

    Posted

    OK, so the preclear finished successfully.

     

    However when I tried assigning the drive as parity, the server has hung again.  I've attached a screenshot of what i saw just before the hang.

     

    Has anyone got any ideas what could be causing this?  Could it be related to this drive being an advanced format drive, whereas all my others are not?  My old hardware might not like this drive?? (Although pre-clear worked ok).

     

    Not sure how to debug this as I can't get a syslog when it keeps hanging.

     

    Edit:  The server will not boot with this drive in place as the parity.  It gets as far as the login prompt, then hangs.  I took the drive out and the server will boot, albeit with a missing parity.

    unraid_new_parity_2.jpg.4e4b97ce5851ccd2d9ef37b879ef6759.jpg

    Please sanity check my hd swap path - NOW cannot assign a parity drive

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

    Posted

    I tried upgrading the parity drive without running a pre-clear first (as i didn't have the preclear.sh on my server yesterday) - but when I assigned the new drive in the UI and clicked "start array and rebuild parity", the server hung.

     

    I couldn't connect via the UI, console or putty.

     

    Would the server be doing some kind of formatting first which would cause it to be unresponsive?

     

    version 5b14 btw.

     

    Anyway I left for over an hour and it was still unresponsive, so I powered off and removed the new drive.  The server powered up showing parity as missing, so I am now running a pre-clear on the drive to see if that helps (before re-assigning as parity again).

    Please sanity check my hd swap path - NOW cannot assign a parity drive

    in General Support (V5 and Older)

    Posted

    Hi all,

     

    I'm planning to change 3 of the drives in my unraid setup, one of which is the parity drive.

     

    I've bought two 2tb seagate barracuda LP drives which i plan to use one for parity (replacing an existing 1tb drive) and a data drive (replacing a 500GB drive).  I then plan to use what was the 1tb parity drive to replace another 500GB drive, so 3 swaps in all.

     

    My thought was to do the parity drive first?  Allow parity to rebuild before attempting to swap any data disks.

     

    Then replace the two data disks individually allowing them to be rebuilt by parity.

     

    Please can someone confirm if this is the correct and quickest approach?

     

    *NOTE the drives being replaced are not failed, just upgrading the size.

    Cannot Access Server - even from console - Simplefeatures issue?

    in User Customizations

    Posted

    OK, so after more investigation - the keyboard issue seems to be related to v5b14.. i downgraded back to 442 (all i had handy) and the keyboard works again (although I can't login as root?).  SO I guess that is a red herring and I never checked the keyboard worked after upgrading to v5...

     

    So I think the only issue is that the server is now not on the network.

     

    Is it possible the network settings have been changed by the simplefeatures plugin?  Or am i just really unlucky and something else has failed at the same time?

    Cannot Access Server - even from console - Simplefeatures issue?

    in User Customizations

    Posted

    OK this is going to sound strange.

     

    My server was working fine this morning and I was checking the forums here and noticed there was an update for Simplefeatures.  So I downloaded and copied the simplefeatures new files into the "extra" folder on my flash and rebooted.

     

    Oddly the server did not appear on the network, so on investigating at the actual machine it appeared to be frozen at the login prompt.

     

    I guessed it must be something to do with simplefeatures, so I removed those files from the "extra" folder on the flash so it is empty again and rebooted.  However the same issue occurred.  Watching at the console, unraid seems to load fine and gets to the login prompt, but at that point I cannot type anything with the keyboard.

     

    The server does not appear to be on the network, even though the lights on the back of the network card seem to suggest it is.

     

    Is it possible that the simplefeatures plugin has changed something that might cause this?  I'm finding this hard to believe, but it is the only thing I changed before rebooting and now having this issue.

     

    Alternatively, what can I do to try to investigate the issue as I can't type at the console or access the server over the network?

     

    I'm on Unraid v5b14 and have been for some time working fine.

     

    Go script:

     

    #!/bin/bash
# Start the Management Utility
/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

fromdos < /boot/custom/bin/powerdown > /sbin/powerdown
chmod u+x /sbin/powerdown

# ifconfig eth0 mtu 9014
# ethtool eth0 -s  speed 1000 mbs DUPLEX FULL autoneg off

sleep 30
for i in /dev/md*
do
    blockdev --setra 2048 $i
done

/boot/unmenu/uu

echo nameserver 192.168.11.1 >/etc/resolv.conf
echo 192.168.11.4 tower >>/etc/hosts

echo "powerdown" | at 22:00

cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c 


/boot/custom/bin/cache_dirs