Nestor

Hi all, I have just upgraded to unRAID 4.7 and run into a seemengly know problem with one of the drives (replacement disk is too small). Unfortunately I did not backup my previous software version and it is not available on the web. Can someone let me know where could I get the unRAID 4.5.6? Also feel free to send it to me by email, I will be very thankful... Thanks in advance, Néstor

Hi again and many thanks for all the replies. I decided to upgrade my hw (case, power supply, motherboard, cpu, ram) and everything runs smoothly now. My new motherboard has enough sata ports so I don't need to use that lousy PCI sata adapter so I guess that's why everything is OK now). It is great to see such a supportive community. Regards, Nestor

I have now replaced the IDE cable and it didn't make a difference, the data transfer speed is still very poor. I am almost certain that the reason is the crappy PCI SATA adapter I am using as it was working perfectly until I installed it...

Thanks Joe.L, I have just checked the cable and at least it is the "black, grey and blue" type. Anyway I will replace it with another one and report the result back. What I find odd is that the system was performing perfectly with the very same cable before I put the SATA PCI adapter and replace one of the IDE drives with a SATA one (attached to the PCI adapter). Regards and thank you very much again, Nestor

Sorry about it bjp999, point taken! Find attached the syslog, I hope it reveals some useful information. Regards, Nestor syslog.txt

Thanks for your quick reply guys. My unraid system is mounted on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 (small mini-tower), specs available here: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx280/en/ug/specs02.htm It has 1gb RAM. Regards, Néstor

Hi all, I have a couple of days ago replaced an old IDE drive with a larger SATA one. As I my motherboard has only 2 SATA ports I purchased a cheap PCI adapter to get an extra 2 SATA ports (chipset VIA VT6421A). To my surprise the data transfer speed to my TOWER has gone down dramatically. I used to get a constant speed of about 25-30mps whereas I now get between 6 and 10mps! I was wondering whether it could have something to do with having purchased a very cheap PCI adapter because I can't really find an explanation for it. I have gigabit router and network adapter in all my pcs. Cheers, Nestor

Thank you very much Joe L., that was exactly what I needed. Also to you Kizer for the tip!

Hi all, I hope someone can help me! I have an old ASUS motherboard which supports both IDE and SATA hard disks (2 + 2) and my array is a mixture of both types of drives. I would like to get rid of the IDE drives (as I have just increased the number of SATA ports with a PCI card) to run a "SATA only" array. My parity drive is SATA so that one does not need to be replaced. What are the exact steps I should take? Thanks in advance, Nestor