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Phew! You just saved me a lot of time, thank you much! I was misinterpreting http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Advanced_Format_Drives thinking that we had to format all drives as 4k. So, if I get a 4k drive, then when I preclear it, preclear will pick up that it's 4k and align it as such, right? Also, I'll have to change that default setting back to 4k before I format it, correct? Thanks again Joe. /EDIT Just noticed that my HD204UI IS an AF drive. Damn. Gonna have to format that as AF now.

Hi all, Running the latest 5.0 beta (need AFP). Still learning the ropes with unRAID. I've gone through and formatted all my drives, even have the array about half full. Then I read on the wiki that all drives going forward, no matter if they're AF or not, should use the 4k alignment. I specifically changed this when setting up my unRAID and pre_clearing the drives since none of my drives are AF/4k. Am I taking a big performance hit by having them unaligned? I can afford to start over because right now I've only lost time and all the data I have copied over I can recopy over. Here are the drives I have in my unRAID: (1) SAMSUNG_HD204UI (updated the firmware, currently my parity drive) (4) SAMSUNG_HD103SI (currently 1 is my cache drive) (4) SAMSUNG_HD154UI (4) WDC_WD15EADS In the near future, I will be adding from my FreeNAS (once data is copied over): (4) SAMSUNG_HD204UI (4) Hitachi Deskstar 2 TB 3.5-Inch CoolSpin and today I will be adding: (1) Western Digital 2TB Caviar Black 6gbps 7200RPM (new parity drive) (1) Western Digital 750GB Caviar Black 6gbps 72000RPM (new cache drive) What should I do? None of these drives are AF/4k but the wiki seems to say we should be formatting them as such. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

Thank you much dude!

Ahh ok. That conf only gets run once tho, right? I've already got the conf installed so what if I updated the SAB auto_install script as such: # if [ ! -f /usr/bin/par2 ]; then # if [ ! -f /boot/packages/par2cmdline-0.4-i486-1alien.tgz ]; then # echo "Required dependency, par2cmdline-0.4-i486-1alien.tgz, has not been installed. Please install it before installing SABnzbd." # exit # else # installpkg /boot/packages/par2cmdline-0.4-i486-1alien.tgz # fi # fi if [ ! -f /usr/bin/par2 ]; then if [ ! -f /boot/packages/par2cmdline_tbb-0.4-i486-1kh.tgz ]; then echo "Required dependency, par2cmdline_tbb-0.4-i486-1kh.tgz, has not been installed. Please install it before installing SABnzbd." exit else installpkg /boot/packages/par2cmdline_tbb-0.4-i486-1kh.tgz fi fi

Thanks ProStuff. I'll use this. Just for clarity sake, can you tell me if this will successfully replace the par2 from the current unMENU pkg? wget http://unraid-greenleaf-repository.googlecode.com/files/par2cmdline_tbb-0.4-i486-1kh.tgz (only download once to /boot/package dir) For the go script: installpkg /boot/packages/par2cmdline_tbb-0.4-i486-1kh.tgz This of course goes after: cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c Thanks!

It says on http://chuchusoft.com/par2_tbb/download.html that it's x86_x64 despite the tar name. Any idea why I couldn't use this to overwrite my current par2 from the SAB unMENU install? Thanks.

This was fixed in 8d

I'm working on AFP today and hopefully will have a new beta out by this evening that fixes this. You are a gentleman and a scholar!

Still having AFP issues in Snow Leopard and Lion GM. Lion is expected but SL wasn't giving me problems before beta 8. 8d did fix some other issues I was having tho and I thank you for that! Any idea on what's up with AFP? Thx

What Apple OS are you running? I've been able to reproduce it with Snow Leopard and Lion

That seems impossible. A couple things to check: a) after mover runs, do you still see the same files on the cache drive? Is there a copy of them on a data drive? b) does the top level share name on the cache drive exist also on at least one data drive on the array? I'm having this exact same issue. I invoked the mover script manually, the interface says Mover is running, but the space is not freeing up. I've confirmed that this share is on other data drives and this has worked previously. (In fact, I've been clearing my cache drive manually about twice per day in copying massive amounts of data over from my FreeNAS.) Thing is, unlike this issue, I don't see things moving off the cache drive. Invoked the Mover again (while it was already running) and now items seem to be moving off the drive. Still not seeing the free space reported correctly but as you said, that's fixed in 8d. Hmmm things seem stalled again. No idea what's going on here. Attached a second syslog. Thank you! syslog2.txt

I'm getting some AFP errors as well. This is from a Lion client but I can reproduce it in Snow Leopard as well. AFP shares are taking a long time to mount and a long time to list (if at all). Can post the full syslog but here's the part where I think it's having issues. Syslog posted Jul 9 23:04:51 HothBase afpd[8808]: dbd_rpc: Error reading header from fd (db_dir /mnt/user/Movies): Connection reset by peer Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase cnid_metad: cnid_dbd pid 9225 exited with exit code 1 Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase cnid_dbd[9248]: Setting uid/gid to 1000/0 Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase cnid_dbd[9248]: main: error opening lockfile: Permission denied Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase afpd[8808]: dbd_rpc: Error reading header from fd (db_dir /mnt/user/Movies): Connection reset by peer Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase afpd[8808]: transmit: Request to dbd daemon (db_dir /mnt/user/Movies) timed out. Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase afpd[8808]: afp_openvol(/mnt/user/Movies): Fatal error: Unable to get stamp value from CNID backend Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase cnid_metad: cnid_dbd pid 9248 exited with exit code 1 Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase cnid_dbd[9249]: Setting uid/gid to 0/0 Jul 9 23:04:56 HothBase cnid_dbd[9249]: Startup, DB dir /mnt/user/MP3/.AppleDB Jul 9 23:08:34 HothBase cnid_dbd[10767]: Setting uid/gid to 1000/0 Jul 9 23:08:34 HothBase cnid_dbd[10767]: main: error opening lockfile: Permission denied Jul 9 23:08:34 HothBase cnid_metad: cnid_dbd pid 10767 exited with exit code 1 Jul 9 23:08:34 HothBase cnid_dbd[10768]: Setting uid/gid to 1000/0 Jul 9 23:08:34 HothBase cnid_dbd[10768]: main: error opening lockfile: Permission denied Jul 9 23:08:34 HothBase afpd[8808]: dbd_rpc: Error reading header from fd (db_dir /mnt/user/Movies): Connection reset by peer Jul 9 23:08:39 HothBase cnid_metad: cnid_dbd pid 10768 exited with exit code 1 Jul 9 23:08:39 HothBase cnid_dbd[10792]: Setting uid/gid to 1000/0 Jul 9 23:08:39 HothBase cnid_dbd[10792]: main: error opening lockfile: Permission denied Jul 9 23:08:39 HothBase afpd[8808]: dbd_rpc: Error reading header from fd (db_dir /mnt/user/Movies): Connection reset by peer Jul 9 23:08:44 HothBase cnid_metad: cnid_dbd pid 10792 exited with exit code 1 Jul 9 23:08:44 HothBase cnid_metad: try with -d /mnt/user/Movies/.AppleDB Jul 9 23:08:44 HothBase cnid_dbd[10803]: main: not enough arguments Jul 9 23:08:44 HothBase afpd[8808]: dbd_rpc: Error reading header from fd (db_dir /mnt/user/Movies): Connection reset by peer Jul 9 23:08:49 HothBase cnid_metad: cnid_dbd pid 10803 exited with exit code 1 Jul 9 23:08:49 HothBase cnid_metad: respawn too fast /mnt/user/Movies/.AppleDB Jul 9 23:08:49 HothBase afpd[8808]: dbd_rpc: Error reading header from fd (db_dir /mnt/user/Movies): Connection reset by peer syslog.txt

You're right, I never had a measurement with it off. Putting it back on definitely helped. Also, turning up my fans to the most they'd go helped alot. Check out the temps now (rsync'ing massive amounts of data over right now) http://cl.ly/0m3o0G1H2g1H3m1v3q3t Thanks for your help!

http://cl.ly/2g1T0I2b1y3f2w3d3r2E Back story: Upgraded to a new mobo yesterday (see signature) and added another BR10i. Previously had another LGA 775 Supermicro board with a Promise TX4 and onboard SATA + (2) IBM BR10i's. Also upgraded my Norco 4224 to the 120mm fan mid plate. Set the fans to optimal in the BIOS and that wasn't cutting it. They're now set to standard to bring them up in speed. Still the drive temps seem high. Also, I had purchased the Norco 7 molex adapter set but after talking to a friend with the same case (and an unRAID fanatic) he told me some people on the forums had odd power issues with them. Since I had the mid plate off, I decided to wire my Corsair PSU directly to the drives. A tight fit with the new mid plate but one that will hopefully cause less issues down the road. So with my previous motherboard, I never had drive temps for the drives on the BR10's. Figured it was a beta bug that would be fixed eventually. I never remember the other drives (on the TX4 and onboard) running this hot. Fast forward to this new board and another BR10 now, out of the blue, I see drive temps for all drives. This is good....or so I thought. The drives are running hot. In this picture, the mover script is running so I expect them to be warmer. But they only drop about 5-10C when the mover script isn't running. I remember the drives being much cooler when on the TX4/SATA so I'm not sure if: a.) these new Coolermaster Blade Master 120mm fans aren't cutting it b.) the BR10i's are still going through some growing pains as far as support and drive temps are buggy in the beta. This whole post might have to be moved to the beta forum but I figured this might be a good place to start. OH and btw, since I rebuilt this box last night, the top cover is off. It's def warm on the east coast but this is in my basement, which is a little warm right now, but it's out in the open since I'm still working on things. Any help would be great, thanks.

You know what? NVM, reading through that thread, setting RSync up that way, is working splendidly!!! Thank you!

Thanks for the info. I can't mount the NFS shares on my FreeNAS. It keeps saying "Permission Denied" even though I have the share set as Public. Looking that error up, it seems that it could be that the server isn't exporting that share. I'm using v5.0 b7 (need to support my IBM BR10i's). Wonder if it's a beta bug.

Hello all, I've started the great migrations - migrating my 13tb ZFS array on FreeNAS to my brand new unRAID. In the past when I've done transfers from NAS to NAS, I've used my Mac as a go between. I know it's not the best way to do it and that RSync would probably be better, but it's always helped me to see exactly what's being transferred. In the past, I've used the 'ditto' command to copy stuff over which seemed sufficient if you didn't have any data already existing on the new share. What I find is if I use ditto after I've copied 100 folders, it will overwrite what's in those folders because it thinks it's different. Ditto is supposed to merge tho! I've falled back to Chronosync, which while it is a great app, is kind of slow when it comes to this operation. So, is it best for me to mount the FreeNAS share (I do have NFS/SSH on my FreeNAS box) in unRAID and do a sync that way? RSYNC seems like it would be the way to go but I don't know where to start. I would also need to know how to mount the FreeNAS share in unRAID. Thanks ahead of time!

Okay just read up on it. Seems there might be an option to disable it in the BIOS. Going to check that out thanks for the heads up!!!

I was thinking about $235 + shipping. Let me know!!! Can post pics

What's HPA?

I'm looking getting an ATI Rage XL 8MB PCI VGA card. Can I assume this'll just work? I'm pretty sure there's no reason it shouldn't. I'll be running it on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P because the board doesn't have onboard video and because I'm getting two of the IBM SAS cards to take up the PCI-E x8/16 ports. Thanks!

A couple years ago I built out a server to mimic the MD-1510/LC: http://lime-technology.com/products/md-1510-server/56 I want to expand to a Norco 24 slot case so this one needs to go. Will come with the case and the three cages as pictured but no mobo, ram, etc. This is in excellent condition. Looks EXACTLY like the MD-1510 server but can post pics if you want. Please contact me: sparklemotion [at] gmail [dot] com Can provide link to my eBay acct for feedback. Best offer takes it. Thanks for looking!

Hi, I know I don't have a lot of posts on here, but I can pass you my eBay rating. http://lime-technology.com/products/md-1510-server/56?vsig56_0=5 About 2 years ago I copied the md-1510 build and built my server just like it (Supermicro bays included). I want to upgrade to a Norco chassis and am looking to sell the entire thing. It's in excellent condition. Will NOT come with the mobo, psu, etc just the case and super micro inserts. contact me: sparklemotion [at] gmail [dot] com Thanks!