Old computer guy, new with unRAID, built a new PC, and trying to get it going using 4.71b. The PC is a Asus M4A785-M motherboard with a Sempron 140 CPU, 2x1GB RAM. I have 3 new Samsung 2TB F4 drives purchased when they first came out, but am just now using for the first time.
1) what is the difference between the 4.71b fork and the 5.0x fork of unRAID? Will I be able to upgrade from one to the other later?
2) installing unRAID was uneventful added unMenu, in 4.71b I selected the Main Menu option for using advanced format drives, but only the partition drive was listed as starting at 64, the other 2 were listed as starting at 63. Shouldn't they all have aligned to 64? I decided to stop building the array and run the preclear script with the -A flag to check the drives, clear, and align them.
3) I opened 3 telnet sessions in Win7 and started them preclearing last night at about midnight. It is now 10:30am and the preclear looks to have stopped on them. SDA is still showing 4% complete on the disk pre-read for sda & sdc. I closed one session for sdb, restarted it, seems to be running has already surpassed the other 2 sessions. It looks like the unRAID computer is going asleep and the processes hang?