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Well after 14 years it had to finally happen. Never seen or wanted too see this message pop up. And checking syslog sure enough I can see multiple instances of the below so I guess my flash drive is toast. Apr 3 19:35:21 unRAID kernel: critical target error, dev sda, sector 18618 op 0x1:(WRITE) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 2 Apr 3 19:35:21 unRAID kernel: Buffer I/O error on dev sda1, logical block 16570, lost async page write Its still hanging in there but with all the write errors its pretty much a goner. At least unRAID has given me fair warning. New Samsung BAR plus on the way to replace the crappy SanDisk UltraFit 🥺

Full diag attached if anyone wants to take a look. unraid-diagnostics-20240330-2120.zip

Thanks JorgeB. I'll keep an eye on it and I'll post full diag once I'm back home later.

So Extended test finally finished and didn't throw any errors so may have just been a blip ? ST8000NM0075_ZA17ML5G_35000c50093e93987-20240330-2115.txt

Drive is in a Dell R730xd so cant see it being a power or cable issue. Extended test is about 70% done so will see what it shows up in a few hours.

Started to get some read errors on a drive. I assume its toast and she be replaced ASAP > ST8000NM0075_ZA17ML5G_35000c50093e93987-20240329-2347.txt

Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe you would have to replace BOTH parity drives.

Apologies if this has been asked / covered before but I'm trying to get temps from a Dell R730. Anyway to get the info from the sensors or IPMI ?

Xen 4.4 + XenGT = Would make my head explode because it would be so awsome

Just to add my two pence I had a play with this today and couldn't for the life of me access or write to the share. And then it hit me. The partition / disk itself cannot be directly shared. You will get access problems, however any folder created on the partition / disk can be. Below are my GO file entries and smb-extra.conf. smb-extra.conf is how the file is generated by S.N.A.P. on my live box and as that works perfectly fine figured why change it. mkdir /mnt/xendisk mount -rw -o noatime,nodiratime,discard -t ext4 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_HD322HJ_S17AJ9CQB09792-part1 /mnt/xendisk [global] security = USER guest account = nobody public = yes guest ok = yes map to guest = bad user [xen] path = /mnt/xendisk/xen read only = no I can read / write to the above share without any problems at all While this does not specifically apply to plex it is an absolute boon to xen as I can have my VMs on an ssd outside the array. Kudos to jumperalex for the initial guide.

Just grabbed a second key myself. Took all of 10 minutes from submitting the GUID to getting the key. Cheers Tom

ASRock so probably a good chance it supports IOMMU / VT-d

It certainly does support passthrough and very well might I add. So far I've thrown ESX, Xenserver, Proxmox and unRAID 6 at it without issue

Just picked up an Asrock C226 WS for a new build I'm doing. http://www.asrock.com/server/overview.asp?Model=C226%20WS Main points: ECC support and plenty of PCI-E slots. Only thing it doesnt have is IPMI but I can live with that for the cost and the other features.

That's great Ironic Assuming they get this fixed it may well be back on my shopping list. How is the board overall?

Yeh, there are a few other boards that come close but none of them have vPro or IPMI

Wow, thats pretty crappy. I was looking at that board myself for my new build but will now stay far away. Being in the UK myself I know what a PITA to get hold of and how expensive Supermicro stuff is here Think I'll wait till the Asrock C226 WS is in stock somewhere. Sorry you had to find out the hard way Ironic.

Definatly 256 byte as I just did a H310 myself. SBRH310.SBR.TXT

Just got myself a H310 off the Bay and this works like a champ, thanks Fireball Much easier to obtain here in the UK unlike the IBM M1015.

Right I'll try to answer some of your questions. 1. Does VirtualBox write on flash drive very often? I know it was a problem for the Transmission package and I’ve read the whole thread and found that the web server causes a great number of writes , but if I’m not going to use it I won’t have to worry about my flash drive, right? Vbox writes nothing to the flash drive, all VM's and therefor any reads / writes would be on a cache/snap drive. 2. I have a spare HDD outside of the array that I want to use for non-unRAID purposes like VirtualBox. How should I modify the installation scripts so they use that drive for temporary installation files storage, etc.? Just point any paths that use cache drive to the location of your drive. 3. Do I need to mount that drive every time I reboot my server (after I create some virtual machines on it)? Because I know that every drive has its own name assigned (sda, sdb, etc.) but sometimes when I add additional drives those names change. unRAID seems to work with that just fine, but what will happen when I create virtual machine on my non-array drive, then I add a HDD to unRAID and it gets the non-array disk’s name? Will VirtualBox be able to recognize that and look for the virtual machine file on the proper drive? The drive WILL need to be mounted every time as this is where the VM's will run from. I personaly use the S.N.A.P. script to do this which opperates on a drive GUI or SN to mount the drive. 4. Is there any “clean-up” procedure necessary after the installation? Will the kernel source, gcc, etc. be removed automatically after the installation/reboot? I would recommend you use a dev or VM test system to do the actual compile. No need to clean any mess up then and you wont potentialy screw up your live system 5. Do you think that 4GB RAM and 2.7GHz single core Sempron should be enough for unRAID, unmenu, cache_dirs and one VM – striped down Ubuntu with lxde working 24/7 (Transmission, jDownloader, maybe a lighttpd/php5/mysql server)? I can try to unlock a second core in my Sepron if that would make a noticeable difference. My box runs 4GB RAM with a Sempron. This runs unmenu, cache_dirs and vbox with a windows xp machine running uTorrent with no problems. Please DO NOT attempt to unlock the second core on your CPU as its probbly locked for a very good reason and could cause instability in your system. 6. How long does this whole procedure take time (without downloading)? Are we talking minutes or hours? The whole process probbly takes about an hour. 20-30 minutes if you have done it a few times and know what your doing. 7. What about upgrading and uninstalling VirtualBox? Is it also that complicated? Upgrading is as simple as re-compiling vbox and droping it on your flash drive. None of the config stuff shold change generaly. 8. And the most important one – is my data/unRAID configuration going to be safe during the installation. Should I be extra careful at any particular step? Again, I would recommend using a dev box or a VM to do the compile.

Guys, I currently have a system with 3 Samsung F3's running quite happily but am now running out of space and need to add additional storage. My question is this. As my current drives are not 4k my system is currently set to "Default partition format: MBR UnAligned". Do I need to change this to "MBR 4k Aligned" when adding the new 4k format drives. And are there any gotchas I should be aware of.

Make sure you have the following in your go file to start the web service. vboxwebsrv -b -H 127.0.0.1 --logfile /dev/null >/dev/null Also MUST run the following at the command line atleast once. VBoxManage setproperty websrvauthlibrary null

Thanks to gfjardim help I now have this running very happily on my live box I only have a Semperon 140 in my server atm so didn't want to go crazy. That said, the one VM I am running (Windows XP Torrent/Download Box) is running perfectly and is extremely responsive for a VM. I'd have to say this kicks the pants out of VMWare Server hands down.

Or use S.N.A.P. Fantastic add-on. Doesn't quite give you the same functionality as a cache drive, but still give you that extra bit of space for running other apps.

Initially missed the RDP IP setting in the config file. Pesky little thing, lol. Love the fact it uses windows RDP to make the connection, just brilliant. So much better than that stupid web thing VMware use.