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oops never answered here if i remembered correctly i uninstalled unmenu and reinstalled it then edited with vi instead of windows editor and the problem was solved

My First Build (moved from pimp my rig thread and update to the template) I had 3 computers running all three raid 5 on the onboard ich chip but had lost already one time all my data on one computer and wanted to find something better without spending too much money and preferably with the hardware of my oldest computer... first ran Ubuntu with a software raid but again due to my limited linux knowledge i did something wrong and lost some data so now Unraid seems to be the best solution as even with the single parity disk i can at most loose info from 2 disks and not from the whole array which is acceptable for me Still hoping Tom will release beta 3 soon with double parity disk and support for the new drives OS at time of building: Unraid 5 beta 2 CPU: Intel E 6550 Core 2 Duo Motherboard: Asus P5b-Plus Vista Edition comes with 6 sata ports on a ICH8 and 1 sata and 1 esata port on a JMicron controller RAM: 3 GB Corsair DDR2 800 Case: NZXT Tempest (9 x 5.25") has 8 internal 3.5" bays using 6 x 5.25" case also has 2 HDD fans / 2 top fans/ 1 side fan and 1 rear exhaust fan http://www.nzxt.com/new/products/crafted_series/tempest Drive Cage(s): Kingwin alike 4 in 3's Power Supply: Coolermaster 550 SATA Expansion Card(s): 2 x ADAPTEC AAR-1220SA Cables: none special all delivered with hardware or that i could buy cheaply Fans: no extra fans so far Parity Drive: hitachi 1 TB 7200 HDS72101 Data Drives: 10 drives : a mix of 1 TB WD EARS/EADS/EACS unjumpered and 1 other hitachi 1 TB 7200 Cache Drive: Samsung 500 GB HD501LJ Total Drive Capacity: 10 TB + 1TB P + 500GB C Primary Use: Storage but installed SabNzbd, couchpotato and Sickbeard ... so only one machine needs to run 24/24 Likes: easy .... simply works Dislikes: i would prefer it to not be a compressed image .. flashdrives are big enough nowadays to run unraid uncompressed Add Ons Used: Unmenu, SSH, SabNzbd, Couchpotato, Sickbeard (found a way to make them run under nobody user) Future Plans: 1.removing the videocard from the x16 pcie and putting a PCI videocard on the mobo... found an old MGA 64mb pci card in my boxes ... hope it will work with unraid 2. buy 3 x 5 in 3's hotswap (probably the icydocks) to replace the current bays so 15 drives in the case (the bays i have now i can use in my other cases) 3. buy another adaptec AAR-1220SA to add 2 drives 4. moving to a bigger case ... icube a11 (aka sharkoon12) or a lian li PC-P80 or my favorite Lian Li PC-343B... would like a case capable of 23 drives at least (22 drives max now + 1 drive for the extra parity when Tom brings it out) which is not a server case ... please populate the enclosure thread in hardware so when it is time to buy one i have a bigger choice and hopefully can find one here in Thailand 5. buying a supermicro OC-SASLP-MV8 sata controller so i can add last 8 drives that my mobo can support Inside the thing: Front and Back Front and Top Side and front while in my desk running attached the nextstar to the esata for the moment as i used it to preclear disks will make nice pictures when i open the case to change the videocard this weekend

Raj ... You read newegg every morning with your coffee instead of the newspaper ? thx for making me drool every time wish newegg would ship to Thailand

only thing i can say is i am already doing that have a nexstar dock connected to the esata slot works great here is mine ->

i changed idea and made them run under nobody See -> http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2903.msg96444#msg96444

hi I think i figured it out how to run the packages as nobody but BE AWARE you need to change the dependencies pkg mkdir /tmp/depend cp /boot/custom/packages/SABnzbdDependencies-2.1-i486-unRAID.tgz /tmp/depend tar -zxvf SABnzbdDependencies-2.1-i486-unRAID.tgz chown -R nobody install chown -R nobody usr tar -zcvf /boot/custom/packages/SABnzbdDependencies-2.2-i486-unRAID.tgz usr install you can delete depend if you want but it will delete automatically next reboot if want now rm -r /tmp/depend the go file should look something like this #sleep for 30 seconds sleep 30 #Sab/sickbeard/couchpotato dependencies installpkg /boot/custom/packages/SABnzbdDependencies-2.2-i486-unRAID.tgz #give nobody shell access usermod -s /bin/bash nobody #move to nobody su nobody #Sabnzbd startup python /boot/custom/sabnzbd/SABnzbd-0.5.6/SABnzbd.py -d -f /boot/config/SABnzbd.ini -p -s 192.168.1.130:9080 #Sickbeard startup python /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard/SickBeard.py -d #couchpotato startup python /mnt/cache/.custom/couchpotato/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d a few remarks though 1. put it at the end of your go script as the shell willl move to nobody 2. nobody needs to be able to access all files in the .custom dirs so better to chown -R nobody /mnt/cache/.custom 3. i am a linux beginner and have no clue how safe this is ... i tried to access the unraid by using nobody and no passwd and that didn't work so i guess it is pretty safe but don't take my word on it 4. if you need to run other commands after the packages then exit should bring the shell back to root ... but not sure about this ... 5. i put #Sab/sickbeard/couchpotato dependencies installpkg /boot/custom/packages/SABnzbdDependencies-2.2-i486-unRAID.tgz before i go to nobody as installpkg was not a known command when running from nobody guess it is easily fixed by changing unmenu to run from nobody ... but i didn't want to mess with that It seems to be working as top top - 15:46:54 up 31 min, 2 users, load average: 0.07, 0.04, 0.00 Tasks: 99 total, 1 running, 98 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu(s): 0.5%us, 0.3%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.0%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 3049788k total, 403296k used, 2646492k free, 3012k buffers Swap: 0k total, 0k used, 0k free, 275600k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3503 nobody 20 0 294m 27m 3388 S 2 0.9 0:01.33 python 1 root 20 0 704 332 288 S 0 0.0 0:01.85 init 2 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kthreadd 3 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0 4 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 5 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/1 shows clearly python is running under nobody i just downloaded a small file and it is owned by nobody and i had all rights from windows to open it will next try to get sickbeard to run... but guess that will be no problem edited for typo's second edit put sickbead on and put couchpotato on both run as nobody and sickbeard put nfo's as nobody now only need to do a reboot to see if everything still works after reboot third edit made a mistake it works all from the terminal but not from GO yet go runs not in multiuser level so su nobody he doesn't allow thinking now to put a small script in rc.d or something that executes the last few lines #move to nobody su nobody #Sabnzbd startup python /boot/custom/sabnzbd/SABnzbd-0.5.6/SABnzbd.py -d -f /boot/config/SABnzbd.ini -p -s 192.168.1.130:9080 #Sickbeard startup python /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard/SickBeard.py -d #couchpotato startup python /mnt/cache/.custom/couchpotato/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d will look at it more tomorrow.. midnight past here and need to work tomorrow.... want this to run

BRiT would this work from the GO script ? #sleep for 30 seconds sleep 30 #Change whole user dir to Nobody owner chown -R nobody /mnt/user chgrp users /mnt/user chmod g+s /mnt/user #Sab/sickbeard/couchpotato dependencies installpkg /boot/custom/packages/SABnzbdDependencies-2.1-i486-unRAID.tgz #Sabnzbd startup python /boot/custom/sabnzbd/SABnzbd-0.5.6/SABnzbd.py -d -f /boot/config/SABnzbd.ini -p -s 192.168.1.130:9080 #Sickbeard startup python /mnt/cache/.custom/sickbeard/SickBeard.py -d #couchpotato startup python /mnt/cache/.custom/couchpotato/couchpotato/CouchPotato.py -d i don't use sickbeard or couchpotato movers script .. only sab moves stuff into /mnt/user/downloads BUT sickbeard will add .nfo / tbn /jpg files into the other directories under /mnt/user will they all be owned by nobody and readable by a windows machine ? update... chown command takes LOONG time to finish ... is this necessary to invoke every boot ?? or just needed one time and then can leave it ?

Stokkes how you want to run sudo ? it is not part of unraid 5... any other way to adapt the go script so these packages can run as nobody ? i checked upon BRiT's scripts but that is above my paygrade and he is also running a full slack os with unraid .... maybe unmenu can package the sudo proggie ?

I want to Thanks BRiT for letting me have another look at special playlists i hacked the skin a bit according this post and now i have all buttons on the home view http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?t=89678 now just figuring out a way to search more easy ... and a remote

HI BRiT, Smart Play lists are not based on folders i have all my movies sorted in folders according language (i have a dutch and French list too as i am originally Belgian ) so what i would need is in xbmc to have a submenu under video library with the categories according my languages ... and as far as i tried this is not possible with smart Play Lists I stand corrected ... there seems to be a way to get the path as a rule in smart Play lists ... but it aint working for the moment i made a post in their forum to see what i do wrong I just downloaded mediaportal to see how this works ..... (is installing mysql 5 ) and seems to be also usable for more clients on a network ... hopefully i can sort my video's in the library

Hi all, now with my storage all on unraid is it time to change the htpc i need a htpc that is easy to handle for wife and kids who are Thai and which have a limited vocabulary i need it to have more than one video list and for the rest i would like it to be able to play music too I tried XBMC so far but the library option sucks i can not have a list For English movies English Movies with Thai and English sound Thai Movies with Thai and English sound Thai Movies Thai only They also have still no support for UTF so thai is displayed as little squares (i hacked it a bit so it does display Thai now but every update i have to do it all over again ) and to browse a 3000 + movie collection is it also not the handiest interface .. it would be very handy if you could do a ctrl f or something like that to find a movie back instead to have to scroll a 1000 movies before you get to the letter M or so I also had a go at windows Media Center but that sucks even more ... especially with "Scene" releases where movie titles are sometimes just first letters of a title and media centre reads file names and not folder names So i searched google and found these proggies Mediaportal -> http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ Moovida -> http://www.moovida.com Freevoo -> http://freevo.sourceforge.net/index.php NPVR -> http://www.gbpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HomePage and a whole bunch more on this blog http://eirikso.com/2005/10/25/the-media-center-software-list/ now i know a lot of you guys here have a HTPC so i was hoping to get some advice on which program to use that can give me a library mode view as xbmc has but for all my different video folders it would make my life a lot easier as now with XBMC i need to be home for the wife and kids to be able to watch something

I will rephrase unRAID Server Pro version: 5.0-beta2 i am baaaaaad with numbers

Thanks for the Reply Rajahal i changed the settings from IDE to AHCI in the bios when unraid came up i was missing 4 drives but putting them back on the right place in the unraid disk config menu solved the issue :0 unraid running again with 10 drives looking now if is still have a pci vga adapter somewhere

i am looking for the moment for a 20+ case and this is my list so far Antec 1200 but he come short with the need for 22 drives (think max of 20 drives) http://store.antec.com/Product/enclosure-gear_for_gamers/twelve-hundred/0-761345-15120-7.aspx sharkoon rebel12 should be OK to host 22+ drives http://www.sharkoon.com/?q=en/node/1126 NZXT Whisper think max 19 drives http://www.nzxt.com/new/products/classic_series/whisper Icute A11-01 (SAME as the sharkoon rebel12) http://icute.com.tw/english/A18.html Lian LI has several 20 drives possible cages PC-A77F http://www.lian-li.com/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=478&cl_index=1&sc_index=26&ss_index=66&g=f PC-P80 http://www.lian-li.com.tw/v2/en/product/product06.php?pr_index=131&cl_index=1&sc_index=25&ss_index=61 AND my personal favorite case Lian Li PC-343B Modular Cube Case - Black can hold 30 drives and seems like the mekka for watercooling nuts IF tom ever makes a pro plus lisence or ups the pro drives then we will still be settled there is a ebay auction going on for this case for the moment but i am not able to bid as i am in Thailand and sends to USA only http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Lian-Li-PC-343B-Modular-Cube-Case-Black-/130435718836?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e5e931eb4 couldn't find an Lian li page on their website though, so it might be a slightly older case... i am trying to find one here in Thailand.... hope this post helps

HI all I am running my unraid 5.2 on this mobo and it runs great but the UCD kicked in and i want to add more drives now i have 6 drives connected to the 6 onboard ich8 connectors 1 HDD on the JMicron sata connector and 1 HDD on the JMicron ESATA connector with an Esata to sata cable that i pulled back into the case i bought 2 adaptec 2 port (1220) pcie x1 cards which have each 2 drives which makes a total of 12 drives now now i still have 1 pcie x1 port so i can still add an adaptec or one of the cheaper cards as i see Rajahal using these cheapo cards (PCI-Express x1 Controller Card (Silicon Image SIL3132)) 3 x PCI slots which are useless i guess (PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG ... it is the purpose of this thread to get more info) if i want to continue using 3 gb/s speed 1 x pcie x16 which is for the moment used by my graphics card now this graphics card is pure overkill for an unraid machine and i was wondering if i could trow out the graphics card and use a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 or similar pcie x4 card to add more drives ?? replace the graphics card with a pci vga card ?? which pci vga card will run with unraid ? So if i use another 2 pcie x1 adapter and a 8 drives supermicro then i wouldn't need to buy a new mobo (and processor and ram and... ) to get a complete unraid setup with 20 drives / parity and cache i will only need to buy an antec 1200 with 5 in 3's or the icute A11-01 case with same 5 in 3's to get a complete machine your advice will be greatly appreciated also have an extra question about the AHCI that Rajahal is talking about all the time mobo slots with 5 data drives and 1 parity drive for now is set to IDE in bios there is an option to set it to ahci what are the advantages of AHCI ? and can i still change it now that the server is running with 12 drives without loosing data ? Here is a pic of the mobo

i know you guys are moving stuff around but i looked around in the general forums and couldn't find the thread back need to find 5 in 3 docks for a new case i have in mind

In Asia they are sold by ICUTE http://icute.com.tw/english/A18.html going to see if i find one in Thailand

yep same :0 thinking of buying 2 more and remove the original bays ... i know i can remove the bays ... not sure if i can remove the fans yet but i guess a hacksaw can do miracles if needed i moved my parity drive into one of these docks and he stays cooler in there .... so might as well buy 2 more of these cheap puppies and no more hassles to remove a drive was today again in pantip plaza and saw a 20 bay case for 19.000 bath (divide by roughly 32 for us$) it is tempting me .... but it would mean i need to buy another mobo .... gonna have to sleep about that one

why oh why they don't ship outside the US 16 disk case is the biggest i found so far in Pantip Plaza in Bangkok since i have already 12 drives in a midtower .... don't really see the need for a 16 drive case as it costs like double what i paid now for this case of course a 24 drive case would be ideal .... but like i said ... no norco's in pantip plaza... nor did a google search in thai do me any good guess we will have to be happy with maybe 2 unraid servers

any plans to make the preclear script part of unmenu ? we have already a disk management tab just add a button for each drive in the "not in protected array" part of the screen and remove the cache drive from there ... he has his own section anyway on the main screen or you could make a new tab for it... then you can make a progress screen... just make sure the disks in the array can not be precleared would make it easier for us lazy people anyway love the preclear function... another 4 disks to clear and then can take advantage of all 12 drive

OOPS ... didn't realise they were that big ... was 01:30 AM when i uploaded them ... reduced the pixels by half

My First Build Inside the thing: Font and Back Front and Top Side and front while in my desk running Case is a NZTX, which has 2 times 4 bays good for 8 drives (with Fans) Only 7 drives there for the moment as I have broken one of the plastics to hold the drive, I ordered 2 new ones Added one 3 * 5.25” to 4 hotswap bay (no clue who makes them but it was the cheapest I found in Pantip Plaza) Motherboard is an ASUS P5B-Plus Vista edition CPU: E6550 core 2 duo 3 GB Corsair DDR2 800 6 onboard 3gbs sata ports through an intel ICH8 (I think) (parity on port 6) 2 X Adaptec 2 port PCI-X adapters (1220) 1 X JBM micro sata port (has the cache drive) 1 X Esata port on the JBM Micro too … ordered on Ebay an Esata to sata cable to get that one missing drive attached 8 x 1 TB EADS/EACS/EARS WD GREEN 2 x Hitatchi 7200 rpm 1 TB (1 = parity drive ) 1 x 500 GB Samsung (Cache Drive ) PSU = Cooler Master 550 W Whole thing is running Unraid Pro version 5 Beta 2 Puppy is now ready to get filled with data … with my end of the year bonus, am I going to start to put 2 TB drives in the thing (Start with Exchange of the parity drive and 1 Data Drive ) Still have 2 other computers with an Intel raid 5 running but can not change those for Linux as family uses them Pretty happy with my setup ... can still add one more adaptec if necessay LOL... will need another case then though did my best to keep the wiring nice... but i am not an expert as some of you guys

Thx for the help Joe.L the rebuild tree solved the issue ended up with a lost+found folder though can not access that folder from the gui though can access it from putty ... only files and folders with a bunch of numbers as name in there is it safe to just rm -rf lost+found ? the parity led is still green after the file system check ... so i can just go ahead and add the new drive ?

Thanks both for the info i ran reiserfscheck and it found a lot of problems it said i had to run --rebuild-tree to solve the issues running that now... if i am correct i will probably end up with a lost+found folder on that drive will my parity still be intact ? or do i need to run first a parity check (with our without correction through unmenu or just from the normal menu?) i have a new EADS 1TB disk that i want to add after this is done ..... in the hollidays the plan is to change the parity drive to a 2 TB and then add a few 2 TB drives any suggestions on a good drive ? i have 2 hitachi's in the box and they seem to run fine .... only slightly hotter then the WD's... although they broke a few times my Intel raid 5 on one of my 2 other computers with intel raid 5 of 6 x 1 TB disks each ...all EADS and EACS (now) ... never had problems with these... i had one failed on me after about 3 years which i tried to replace by the EARS but boy did that also give problems ... i checked the ears a few times with smart and he passes every time so i think he is not bad ... but still he seems to cause nothing else then problems... if he screws up one more time then i will use him as a download disk ... (pity though to use such a large disk for that) anyway i like unraid and i am planning to build a big box soon (20 drives) so i can eliminate the intel raid 5 setups so that these disks will not have to spin all day ....

hi all I am having a problem and i guess it is related to those damn EARS 4K drives i added one to my existing array filled it up to 800 gb and from then on i have nothing else then troubles i have SHFS going up to 100% of processor usage the moment i try to access the share and i get these in my logs Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS warning: reiserfs-5082 is_leaf: free space seems wrong: level=1, nr_items=7, free_space=1936 rdkey Dec 17 21:34:50 p5bplus kernel: REISERFS error (device md4): vs-5150 search_by_key: invalid format found in block 51760081. Fsck? i have some experience with linux and i have read a lot already but i can not really find a reason for above in the logs i tried to do a filecheck on the disk md4 (which is the EARS 1 GB drive ) but ended up with more problems (disk was disabled by unraid) so i cleared the disk again and let the array rebuild on the same disk again but the problem still persists so i would like to know if there is something i can do to save my data ? and how can i get this damn disk to work with unraid ? would adding the plug on the disk help with my problem ? please let me know if there is anything else what you need to troubleshoot or what i can do more ?