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The shares from windows point of view will be something like: \\tower\flash \\tower2\flash They are completely different. If you map the network drives, you could have: Z:\ Flash (\\tower\flash) Y:\ Flash (\\tower2\flash) I've never had two drives with the same name but the drive letter and location would be different so I don't think Windows would complain.

I am fine with this too, but Tom's seemed to have plans to build the brand and entice more corporate customers, which the current model will not support. The only reason I would like to see it move out of mom/pop is that it shows business maturity and the larger the install base the more money LT has to invest in resources to further improve the product. I agree. I would love nothing more than to see this company evolve and for Tom to be able to take that vacation that he so desperately deserves. LT is definitely growing and I'm sure they have their workload cut out for them but unRAID definitely suffers from a bad case of feature creep which hinders development. Bells and whistles should be 6.1, 6.2, etc. This forum gets so worked up when a new release is "around the corner" as shown by the influx of people on IRC and how active the forums have been. There are a lot of dedicated users who love this product but seeing that grayed out announcement thread makes everyone sad panda. It's probably never going to happen, but if LT could deliver a small, weekly progress update (on schedule... no exceptions) of where things are at in regards to development- what issues are currently being worked on, what has been resolved etc. just a few sentences with some bullet points I'm sure it would keep the hounds at bay. Plus the community always wants to help where they can- it may even assist in squashing certain bugs faster. There are some VERY bright, active people here.. use them!

Hey everyone, As some of you may already be aware, I've been working on a script for mIRC-based clients which pulls data from the unRAID webUI so it can be sent directly to an IRC channel. A few weeks ago, active #unraid users were discussing parity check speeds and I thought to myself: "wouldn't it be great if you could pull the current parity info and display it straight to the channel." Rather than opening your browser, logging in, checking the speed, typing it into the channel.. and so it began.. Currently only tested with unRAID 5.0.6 and mIRC 7.36 Working: server name license & version total array size / used / free total number of drives in array (currently assumes all diskX) parity/cache present & drive stats (as below) drive status (e.g. active, idle, error) drive model drive serial number drive size / used / free / % drive usage indicator drive temperature drive mount points drive read/write/error (errors > 0 print in red text) flash stats/info, mostly same as drives Planned / To do: massive code clean-up display correct output when parity is not valid (currently blank) display parity check info (when parity check is running) display user shares listed on "Shares" page display username/s (security concerns?) display network services listed on "Settings" page integrate dialog window / user settings consider pulling part of syslog stream, not sure about this yet It's not quite at the point where it is ready for user testing but also not that far away. Consider this pre-alpha at the moment but just to get some feedback on the look/feel and any suggestions for what else could be displayed. Anything the webUI can display should be do-able. I also considered having the temperatures color-coded based on set thresholds (errors currently are). For example, if a drive is over 40 degrees it would display in orange, over 44 in red or just over some set amount but this is not currently implemented. Let me know what you think I know the mIRC user base isn't huge but this was for my own interest so thought I would share.

I appreciate all the hard work LT does but I really feel like they should be taking the under promise and over deliver road instead of the opposite. I'd rather hear that something will be out by the end of the year and have it released sooner than be told "just a few more days" and hear nothing for weeks. </rant> I still love you Tom

Hey man, very nice build. I love minimalist, tidy builds so this is right up my alley. I thought I would just mention, I noticed your drives have SDI, SDH, SDG written on the drives. You should probably change this to Parity, Disk1, Disk2, etc. as the mount points can change if you shuffle disks around or even just by adding another disk. The disk numbers are more important in terms of rebuilding everything but if in doubt, put both on the drives.

Hey brg, I just thought I would mention- i used to work in a computer store and we sold a lot of those boards and a LOT came back. Various issues from random bluescreens to weird CPU temperature fluctuations to O/S corruption every few weeks all fixed with a new board. I personally stay away from Asus motherboards in general as I've never had any luck with them but that particular model is a black sheep and I would replace it sooner rather than later :-)

Tried to rebuild onto the Seagate drive and though the speed started good, last night before I went to bed it dropped to 5mb/sec rebuild then back to normal. I ignored it at the time, went to bed and in the morning it was still rebuilding at 5mb/sec - I had to go out today so I left it anyway, there were no errors. After a full night and full day of rebuilding it was only 30% complete running at 5mb/sec so I have stopped and taken the drive out. For now, I'm rebuilding onto a spare WD Red I have and if that goes well I'll remove it and try rebuilding back to the WD Green. All else fails I'll go buy another drive..

SMART report for Seagate drive attached - it passed the full Seatools test, I think it looks OK and doesn't have any critical data on it so I might use this to rebuild for now and re-add the Green drive after. Any thoughts? sg-smartctl.txt

A few months ago a 1TB Seagate drive in my unRAID box died while a friend was borrowing it, however I was overseas at the time so he simply stopped using the server. When I returned I got the server back up and running by simply removing the drive from the array and everything was good again. I'll come back to this drive in a second. Now, just my luck about a week later I've lost another drive - this time a 1TB WD Green The good news? The WD drive has not failed SMART & passed both a short and full WDDiag test, doesn't have any reallocated sectors or pending sectors but does have this which I'm not sure about: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 169 000 Old_age Always - 117 Full SMART report for WD drive is attached. The Seagate drive I have has also not failed SMART, has passed a short Seatools and is currently running through a long Seatools test. I haven't yet looked at the SMART report for that drive but will do so after the full-test is complete. I'm starting to wonder if it's just a cabling issue. Could anyone shed light on my SMART report? +Edit: When it dropped out of the array it only had 2 errors and initially when I tried to run a smart test it was giving me some message about not being able to locate the drive (even though it was 'mounted') - this is when i removed it from the trayless rack and ran wddiag on a different pc. wd-smartctl.txt

Thanks for the link jon but it should be fine. I'm going to get this working for 5.0.6 then adapt it for 6.0 once it is released (or i'm done with this, whichever comes first). It shouldn't be too hard if the icon changes, I'll just need to update the filenames from green-blink to whatever the new names are. All good :-)

That helps, a bit more light on orange would be helpful too. Even if just 'invalid' is enough i can go from there. I need to know the GIF names too but i can probably just look for red* yellow* orange* etc.

Hola, I'm working on a mIRC script for unRAID and need to know what each of the drive status indicators mean as well as the image name. So far I have determined the easy ones: green-blink.gif = Drive is idle green-on.gif = Drive is active Can anyone help with the others? Such as a redball, orange, is there gray for an inactive/missing? So far I am using "if it's not active or idle, it's an error" but I would like to elaborate. I could make my server redball but I'd prefer not to

Announcements will still be made on the forum, nothing has changed. LT has locked the announcement board as a lot of users are subscribed to be notified of new posts (if LT is posting an announcement, it's usually worth a read) and don't want to be notified every time someone replies "when is version xyz going to be released /flame /hate." Myself included; many of the threads quickly go off-topic and end up moved to another board. The IRC channel is an addition to the way LT can communicate with users and users can socialize as well as bring issues they may wish to have resolved, possibly more promptly than on the forum, depending on who is online at the time. LT have been working on improving their communication having been on the forums for several years, things are definitely getting better. The changes to the roadmap (despite dates passing, everyone knows it could be better) and the way that bugs are tracked/handled is one aspect of this. Limetech are a small team with a big user base and a great product at a great price, we need to give them a little space and trust they know what they are doing (because they do).

All working - authentication and everything. I have to give props to h4kriX_l from #friendly-coders on Freenode for assisting. Turns out the answer was simply the position of the 'Authentication Basic' line. When I tried it originally, I had it after the $crlf, should have been as follows: sockwrite -n webui GET /Main HTTP/1.1 sockwrite -n webui Host: %serverIP sockwrite -n webui Authorization: Basic (key here) sockwrite -n webui $crlf Receiving contents as expected, moving forwards!

I removed the authentication and everything is working perfectly. This is good for now as it allows me to continue writing & testing but will still need some help logging in properly. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Limechat is on the list but hasnt been voted for yet :-) Vote for Mozilla derivative

I understand why I'm getting the error. The problem is I don't know enough about web coding to know what information the page is expecting (and in what format). I know how to send requests and data to the server but so far my efforts in getting it to auth correctly have failed. I might try removing the password for testing but that would only be a workaround for now.

Hey guys, I'm working on a mIRC script which will hopefully be able to pull data from the WebUI and display/output it in mIRC. In theory, anything that can be read on the WebUI should be able to be printed into the IRC channel; such as parity status, disk models, status, etc. I've only just started but I've managed to get the sockets function in mIRC to connect to the server but I get a 401 auth error. At the moment the part of the mIRC script which opens the connection (seems to be working, server is replying) is: sockwrite -n webui GET /Main HTTP/1.1 sockwrite -n webui Host: 192.168.1.5 sockwrite -n webui $crlf FYI: sockwrite is the command for writing to a socket, -n implies a crlf and webui is just the name of the connection. The rest is the HTTP headers. After this point, the server responds with: :HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized :WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm='unRAID SMU' I'm not sure what the correct headers to send are to authenticate properly. So far i've tried sending the following: curl -X POST -u "root:pass" 192.168.1.5 setting host to root:[email protected] Authorization: Basic (encoded key) **RFC2045-MIME as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication using this encoder: http://webnet77.com/cgi-bin/helpers/base-64.pl Each simply returns with the server responding ":" and as far as I can tell, that's basically a blank page (bad login). Any ideas?

Not trying to hijack but since it's very related, let us know which IRC client you chose/prefer! Poll below :-) http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=36124.0

Add to the poll! :-)

Hey guys, curious as to what the community is using out there. I figure this is a good time to ask since IRC is quite active at the moment, if you aren't aware: #unraid on Freenode! Comments are welcome but not required :-)

Can you run a memtest off the flash drive? Otherwise it's probably best to rebuild your flash drive with a clean copy of 5.0 (no plugins, etc.) and try again. Also check all of the connections to your drives and motherboard, a loose cable can sometimes cause funny hangs.

I've used a WDTV, WDTV Live, XBMC, Openelec on RPi and Roku 3 ..XS? Out of those the WDTV is my favorite for a standalone out of the box player (both versions are good), XBMC or Openelec otherwise, I don't have much experience with Plex sorry. The Roku is terrible for accessing drives connected by USB but works pretty well for Netflix which was the main reason we got it. Now using a PS3 for Netflix though and it does a better job.. I'm not even sure if our Roku can access SMB shares, my unRAID server is back in Aus :-( Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 4

A good cache drive setup can easily reach these speeds. If you are worried about unprotected data in the short term (prior to the cache drive being dumped to the array) then you can mirror two drives for a cache volume. If you really want to give your network a run for its money, mirror SSDs. Granted, there is some cost to this setup but still an option

Keep in mind that unRAID is an operating system, not an application which runs on Windows or *nix. It has a minimal package set for stability and basically, it 'does what it says on the box.' Once you start getting involved with plugins you do so at your own risk, it can be a little involved to get everything setup though once it is- many people here don't touch their servers again until they need to power them down for some reason, or to add/replace a drive. There are plenty of plugins on here which do work great but often almost all issues people have with unRAID are attributed in one way or another to plugins, rather than the core product. Another solution you might also want to consider is an ESXi/unRAID build. There is a bit more setup work with this type of setup and you would need to ensure your hardware is supported. There are a few threads about virtualizing unRAID with ESXi or even XenServer. This way you can run a barebones unRAID VM alongside a Windows 7/8/Server VM or whatever you feel will work for you. unRAID is a great NAS/Media server solution and overall I wouldn't even consider any of the alternatives out there at the moment. A cache drive is a great solution for improving write speeds if you can handle your data not being protected for a few hours.