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Wouldn't it just be easier to grab the Slackware 14.1 x86_64 ISO and install it in a VM?? No need for a pre-configured VM then (if you need the kernel source for the version that 6.0 is built on, just grab it from one of the kernel repositories and basically follow the instructions in the wiki on how to run 5.0 on a full-fledged slackware distro install). Easy-Peasy, and don't have to rely on anybody else to get it done, nor have to worry about what hypervisor they used (virtualbox, hyper-v, esxi, xen, etc).

Installed on my production box, and haven't seen any issues thus-far. Don't run much as far as plugins on my server (none at the moment, but did have unmenu & the directory cache plugins running before). I have 6.0b1 up and running on a full Slackware 14.1 x86_64 distro, guess I need to upgrade it to reflect the changes in 6.0b2 now.

Got this up and running on my production box without any issues. Also have it on a Slackware 14.1 x86_64 full distro, just had to change a few of the instructions on the wiki to get it running (mainly, anywhere it has a /lib, change to /lib64, and don't move the samba libraries and such, just the rc.d files, and config files).

I took it as him meaning 100%, I'm sure he'll clarify though. From what I've read on this thread, and the other before deletion, it looks to me like Lionelhutz is only stirring the pot, with the intention of making thing spiral out of control. If that's NOT his intention, he should have posted his say, taken it to PM's (which he may have, don't know, don't really care at this point), or just reported it to the mods to handle (they are here for a reason, and are the only ones in the position to say what should and should not be discussed here, as far as I see, Lionelhutz isn't a mod so I will just choose to ignore his posts from here on out). On the other thread, I chose Centos (I'm familiar with it, use it on a few servers I already run, alongside a Redhat EL server at work). All I want is a way to run MediaBrowser on my unraid box, and this appears to be the fastest way to get there (needs Mono support among other things, if Unraid was available on any full distro I'd be 90% of the way there now). To me the idea situation would be an ISO of Centos with the MD mods already in place, where if I choose to use unraid, I add the emhttp from the current release (or release corresponding to the unraid MD mods included). That covers you on the including emhttp in your distro (and that is assuming that emhttp would work on your Centos as/is). Then I could go from having to have 2 boxes up and running 24/7 to one box, running both Unraid and MediaBrowser server natively, not under VM's (already tried the unraid on ESXi a couple years ago, never ran quite right on my hardware, and pretty much was a headache all around at the time). I currently own a Pro license, so I've paid for my license already, but if this is released 100% opensource, I'd retire my key until such a time that I could get the same functionality through the official releases (full distro, plugin, whatever). If there were an up-charge to get a full-distro version of Unraid from what I have now, I'd have no problem with that either.

Guess nobody out there knows, so I went ahead and clicked the rebuild button, and it's doing as intended. Verbage on the start button after replacing a drive appears to need to be changed, as it says it'll start the rebuild automatically after hitting Start Array..

I went through the procedure I've used before to replace a bad drive: Stopped the array Powered down Replaced drive Powered the machine on Here system showed the drive missing, as I expected. Array was able to be accessed without any missing data while preclear was running. * Ran Preclear (no errors) Stopped array and removed bad drive assignment Restarted array Stopped array Assigned replacement drive in proper slot (showed a blue ball) Start button showed "Start will bring the array on-line and start Data-Rebuild." Checked the checkbox under it, then clicked start Here's my issue. Has something changed in the 5.0x series, it starts the array with the drive orange-balled, and says on the left "Data Is Invalid", and never starts the actual rebuild. There's a 'rebuild parity' button under Stop Array (I haven't clicked it). What's the next step? The old drive is still here (haven't sent it of yet), and the array is up with the parity-backed data still available. Where do I need to go from here?

Yeah, I made that mistake years ago on a 'hotswap' chassis that was plugged into a non-swap controller, it wasn't pretty. Even with the ability to swap drives hot, I always shut the system down, too many bad things happen when you mess with stuff with electricity flowing .

Moved my Unraid box from the Antec 300 case pictured earlier in this thread to a Antec 900 case last night, also added another Supermicro 5-in-3. Now I just need one more of the 5-in-3's, and the system will support 15 drives, all hot-swap (that's more drives than my mobo/card combos will support at the moment, so I'm also looking at upgrading the board to something that I can hit the 15-drive mark on the PCI-E buss, no standard PCI).

Ran Preclear on a new WD 750 Green drive, and this is the before & after: Before: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 199 199 021 Pre-fail Always - 5050 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 8 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 4 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 126 119 000 Old_age Always - 24 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 After: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 199 199 021 Pre-fail Always - 5050 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 8 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 21 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 4 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 8 194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 113 111 000 Old_age Always - 37 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 200 200 000 Old_age Offline - 0 The only one that concerns me is the Raw_Read_Error_Rate, looks like the VALUE doubled, but the WORST went down, although the RAW_VALUE is still 0? Anybody see any reason I shouldn't put this drive in my unraid box?

I've been having an issue where on a cold-start, one drive won't spin up, but a reset right after detection, they all spin up fine. I think I'm going to replace my existing power supply with a Corsair VX450, as their calculator says it should be good for my hardware, with up to 15 drives. The supply I have now doesn't do any sort of load-balancing between the rails (like the corsair's do), so I figure just replace it and I'll be good for a while (and Newegg has a 15.00 MIR on it right now). if you use the calculator on Corsair's website they will probably say this power supply is enough. The website says specifically - >> Planned Expansion (on the off-chance that I might need more than 9 drives): Not sure you need all those parts. You could go with 5in3s in a good case and not have any outside wiring. So if you were to double check your power supply and needs, then consider the 5in3's and a new case, you could fit it all in one place.

Didn't catch that part at first. Don't you mean daily parity checks, lol? (For one reason or another, I've done one about every day this week, it's a great way to push the drives to see the max-temps, lol).

It also appears to spin up much faster than my PATA 80g .

I was thinking of using a 320 2.5" as a cache drive, plenty fast for that, and low power/heat .

Yeah, I didn't until last week . Now if I could just find a rail/enclosure system that lets you adapt a 2.5" drive to a 3.5" slot that would work in my trayless box, I'd be set...

Front pic, not great quality, but shows the hotswap bays... The system: aBit AN-M2HD motherboard (Socket AM2) http://www.uabit.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=32&Itemid=48&page=1&model=383 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Orleans 2.0GHz 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 Single-Core Processor http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103637 2gb Crucial Ballastix DDR2 667 + 1g Unknown DDR2 Antec 300 case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129042 (got it for 47 shipped a month or so ago from 'egg) Adaptec 1430SA 4xSata PCI-e http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103058&Tpk=adaptec%201430sa Rosewill RC-216 PCI-e Sata/PATA controller http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132014 Rosewill RC-208 PCI Dual PATA Controller http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816132005 Kingwin KF-4000-BK 4 slot, trayless 4 in 3 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817990004&Tpk=Kingwin%20kf-4000-bk Cooler Master Real Power Pro 550w http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817171025 To get enough 4-pin molex connectors without using a ton of 4 pin splitters, I got 2 Sata to dual molex adapters http://cooldrives.stores.yahoo.net/4mooufrsapoc.html

Just re-arranged my drives, and installed the Adaptec card, and cleaned up the cabling a little bit. Looks much better than it did, that's for sure. I may end up using the 300 case for my dual Xeon (which might get re-purposed yet, just not 100% sure, lol) and replace it with a Antec 900 (although those Centurion cases are much cheaper, and look to have the same bay-setup, just without the 200+mm fan in the top). If I do that I'm definitely going to get a more suitable power supply (although this appears to be running fine, I had an odd problem on bootup after re-arranging where the 500g Pata didn't show up until I did restart after power-on, could be power related?).

I'm using this same case at the moment, although I wish I had done a bit more research (I'd have gotten another 900 case, since the lower 6 bays are 5.25 in it, where the 300 is 3.5" down there). I've currently got the lower 6 bays full, and a 4-in-3 in the top bays (with only 2 drives at the moment). I need to change out my power supply, as it's a tri-rail, with 19a on each (and rail 3 isn't used at all with my configuration). I'm going to try to neaten up my wiring in the box as soon as the sata to molex adapters come in (I have plenty of SATA plugs on my power supply, but only 4 PATA, so using the 4/3 rack I have is problematic at best since it only uses molex plugs, and 3 of those are being used currently by my PATA drives...).