santan17

Hi guys, Sorry for the noob question, but rather than running VMware in Unraid has anybody had success running Unraid as a VM in something like a VMware ESXi Server? Thanks.

Out of curiosity, are you using the ls-R trick? I have the same problem as you with regards to stopping the array and not being able to unmount all the drives because of read activity. However this only occurs if I want to stop the array within five minutes from booting it. I found that by not running ls-R I don't get the problem any more so I reckon it is just the ls-R process caching the drive. Santan

As requested I switched from AHCI mode to IDE mode and my Parity-check speeds are now identical at about 95Mb/s weather "Force NCQ Disabled" is set to On or Off. I am running the latest BIOS (1803) on the motherboard. I hope this helps, if you want me to check anything else just let me know. Santan.

No problem, I'm not near the machine at the moment but I'll give it a go tomorrow and report back.

Just for info, my motherboard is the Asus P5B-E, I upgraded to beta 4 without a problem but with "Force NCQ Disabled" set to ON my Parity sync speeds dropped from about 96Mb/s to about 29Mb/s and my transfer rates from about 25Mb/s to under 1Mb/s. It's not a problem as I just set it to OFF but I thought somebody might be interested. Santan.