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Just a quick question… in this case does more pins = better performance? I have two controllers lying around, but I only need 1 of them.

I've decided to abandon this motherboard/memory & use another from a different donor system. I successfully booted from that PC, so will switch the motherbaord & memory into my Server case. Thanks anyway guys.

Good to know, it's an old server so memory might be difficult to source for it, but I'll investigate adding more. I did have 4gb in there, but 1 one the memory sticks turned out to be faulty on memtest.

I'll take a look at Rufus, but the boot sequence does start, it just hangs at the exact same point each time. I only have a Mac, but I know someone with a PC if Rufus is a PC program. I'm using UEFI mode currently as that's what the installer defaulted to.

For years I couldn't even upgrade to v5release due to a hardware incompatibility, a certain beta version worked, but beyond that it wouldn't boot. Having abandoned my 6 port SAS controller I am now able to run v5.x, but when I trying to upgrade to v6 I don't even get to the screen to choose which boot option I want. I've followed the upgrade instructions meticulously, I've tried the Unraid USB creator and tried the manual method using 3 different Sony & Verbatim USB sticks (I have 4 licences) but all stop at the same point, just before I'd expect the boot menu to appear if it was v5. v5 boots just fine. I ran the test and my CPU is 64bit & I have 3gb Ram in the server. USB sticks ranged from 1gb to 64gb (I didn't have a 32 to try, and the 64 gb stick got just as far as the smaller ones). Could there be a BIOS setting I should be turning off perhaps? ALL my drives are connected via SAS controller in my 24 bay server case. I'm in the middle of another Parity rebuild currently as I'm replacing disks with larger ones, so I can't give it another try until tomorrow anyway, but any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.

I've found the updated link and will try it once Parity has been completed

My Unraid server has been offline for years due to a hardware compatibility issue with my SAS controller resulted in a failure to boot. I've removed the offending hardware, reduced the number of disks accordingly and it's booted successfully, I'm currently rebuilding Parity based on 6 Disks + Cache + Parity. I've been looking for the links to update from v5.x but they are all dead. Same for the WIKI, the links no longer work. Where can I find info on how to upgrade? Thanks, Mark.

Thank you, I've followed it carefully. It appears my UnRaid is a Core2Duo CPU with 3GB Ram, I may well need to do a hardware upgrade too. It'll do for now, but my UnRaid Boot USB is also 1gb, and is very old, probably since v2 or 3. Is it complicated to swap to a new stick? the GUID mentioned in the setup instructions is unique to that specific stick isn't it? Is much stored on the stick in v6? Thanks, Mark.

I've been using UnRaid since v2, but I've never jumped into all the wonderful extra features. I'm on 5.0rc11, I never upgraded beyond that after a hardware compatibility scare that at the time I just didn't want to get my head around. I'm happy to lose all my settings/disk allocations, but I want to ensure my data is safe. 2 questions: 1/ Is there a command line way to see what processor & memory my unbraid has? It was pretty powerful at the time, but that was a few years ago. 2/ Is there a quick & easy way to upgrade directly to the latest version so I can start seeing what I've been missing? Thanks.

Could you just map a network drive to a user share? In my case I'm limited because I need my media player to see a single ahare point for ALL MEDIA TYPES. After some trial & error I've got this sorted with the user shares in a way I'm VERY happy with:- How to create a single share point that contains all the user shares you require Make a note of which user shares you want under the single network share, in this example I want to use the user shares "dvd", "tv" & "hidef" You can list your user shares by connecting to the UnRaid server via telnet (user name: root <-- I know you know but some people don't ) and typing:- ls -l /mnt/user <-- That's a small "L" not a capital "i" Then you can create symbolic links (Linux equivalent of shortcuts) to them. In this example I've decided to create a folder called "media" to hold my shortcuts:- mkdir /mnt/disk1/media ln -s /mnt/user/dvd /mnt/disk1/media ln -s /mnt/user/tv /mnt/disk1/media ln -s /mnt/user/hidef /mnt/disk1/media Now from your PC you can browse to //tower/disk1/media and map a network drive. The "media" folder will hold the subfolders containing all the user shares you have specified. On my TViX box you can't map to a root directory, so for that I simply mapped M: to //tower/disk1/ and specified the path on the TVix Box as "M:\media". It worked a treat! If there is a way to combine the contents of all the folders you specify on your UnRaid into 1 single list I'd also love that, but I can't work out how to do it. As mentioned earlier please be careful not to create an "endless loop. An example wheere this could occur may be:- /mnt/disk1/ holds a folder called "Media" /mnt/disk1/media contains a shortcut to /mnt/disk1/... which holds the folder called Media that contains the shortcut to disk1 etc.etc. Hope this helps, Mark.

Actually, I was thinking... I have 1gb of Ram in my servers. How difficult would it be to configure a ramdisk to contain the folder with the symbollic lnks? Thanks, Mark.

As a test I tried:- cd /boot mkdir media cd media mkdir dvd mkdir hidef mkdir music ln -s /mnt/user/dvd /boot/media/dvd and got:- "creating symbolic link `/boot/media/dvd/dvd' to `/mnt/user/dvd': Operation not permitted So apparently that can't work Now if symbolic links can span the network I could potentially get around the endless loop problem by storing the symbolic links for each "media" folder on a different unraid machine I guess? //tower1/disk1/media contains links to //tower2 user shares //tower2/disk1/media contains links to //tower3 user shares etc. Could this be a solution? It's not ideal but I don't have a Disk in any of my UnRaids that doesn't contain files I need included in the symbolic link. Thanks, Mark.

I've been trying to work out a way to get symbolic links to the user share folders. I have a just bought a media player that has a very limited number of share points (4 total). As I have 3 UnRaids (and other PC locations) this limits me somewhat and I'd like to create a single share point per UnRaid if possible. I have a few questions... 1/ Regarding the possibility of an endless loop.. I can see how that could happen. Could the folder containing the symbolic links be stored on the USB key this way there couldn't be an endless loop of content? or would that slow streaming access to USB levels? 2/ Would it be possible to create a symbolic link to a user share? I have MANY disks in my unraid machines and I would prefer it if the list of movies, music etc. was not sub-divided into the disk location subfolders. 3/ Can symbolic links span different machines on the network? Tower1, Tower2 & Tower2 for example? I'd like to create a folder called "media", hopefully on the USB key, and under that have:- media/dvd media/recordedtv media/podcasts media/losslessmusic/ media/musicvideos media/karaoke etc. with all the sub folders being user shares That way I can link to the "media" folder from the remote box and keep the content divided into the relevant categories without the Disk sub-folders. Is this possible? Also... 4/ The manual for my new mediaplayer box offers NFS share and SAMBA share options. Are NFS share supported on UnRaid? Thanks, Mark.