perfessor101

Currently I'm migrating my old unRaid sever over to an Esxi 5.0 update 1 server I have running. It's got a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD7 motherboard with 16 GB Kingston Hyperx DDR2-1866 Ram and an AMD FX-8350 Processor. Seems to be working very well ... I have two AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 cards Via PCI-e passthrough attached to a VM running unRaid 5.0-rc16c working. I heard from my local computer retailer that the UD5 was working for people in their various Esxi home server projects.

But it does not get installed: Any idea? I'm getting the same the file unmenu.base.lib_2.awk in the /tmp/unmenu_tmp directory is zero bytes Is google starting early? http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=27941.msg247553#msg247553

I've been looking into building an ESXi system based on an AMD processor ... so I'm really curious how things are working for you ... I keep on looking into the supermicro motherboards ... but I really try to avoid intel processors These are the AMD motherboards I have been trying to research and that list iommu in BIOS ASRock 990FX EXTREME4 Motherboard ATX AM3+ DDR3 3PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 2PCI SATA3 USB3.0 SLI CrossFireX http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=65339&vpn=990FX%20EXTREME4&manufacture=ASRock ASUS Crosshair V Formula AM3+ DDR3 ATX AMD 990FX 4PCI-E16 1PCI CrossFireX 6 SATA 6GB/S Motherboard http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=61991&vpn=CROSSHAIR%20V%20FORMULA&manufacture=ASUS ASUS Sabertooth 990FX AM3+ DDR3 4PCI-E16 1PCI-E1 1PCI SATA3 SLI CrossFireX USB3.0 GBLAN Motherboard http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=61765&vpn=SABERTOOTH%20990FX&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1360 Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5 AMD990FX ATX AM3+ DDR3 5PCI-E16 1PCI-E1 1PCI SLI SATA3 USB3.0 Motherboard http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=61546&vpn=GA-990FXA-UD5&manufacture=Gigabyte&promoid=1360 Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 AMD990FX ATX AM3+ DDR3 6PCI-E16 1PCI CrossFireX SLI SATA3 USB3.0 Motherboard http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=61755&vpn=GA-990FXA-UD7&manufacture=Gigabyte&promoid=1360 MSI 990FXA-GD80 ATX AM3+ 990FX DDR3 4PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 1PCI SLI CrossFire SATA3 USB3.0 Motherboard http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=61886&vpn=990FXA-GD80&manufacture=MSI%2FMicroStar&promoid=1360 I read on one website that someone got the Sabretooth working with ESXi ... but it's hard to tell if they did anymore that boot it up ... and it didn't crash. Video Card/PCI Passthrough seems to work most easily with AMD Graphics cards one person said "In case of AMD i found out that SABERTOOTH 990FX got IOMMU fixed, but the support for the rest of the boards are still questionable..." I'm really interested if you get this working ... I'm debating waiting for Octobers processors releases ... or starting now ... I'm torn between starting with the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX, the Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 or the MSI 990FXA-GD80 Bobby here's a link to a Sabretooth system running on Zen ... although I'm assuming to get the video cards working (if it's real) he would have had to get passthrough working ...

Thank you opentoe and Joe L, I'll restart the array in the morning ... when I get home from work... the drive is in a Norco RPC-4224 case I'll try to find some more information on drive diagnosis before I reboot so I know what I'm testing for and why ... Bobby

Hello, I was curious how I should proceed ... I don't have a replacement disk currently and won't be able to get it until tomorrow morning ... (all replacement disks I have are smaller) and then I'll have to do a triple preclear ... Should I do any testing of the disk before replacing it? The system has been running fine for several months. although in February I removed 1 of 3 2GB Ram modules as it was starting to have errors ... Started the RMA process with OCZ over a month ago ... was approved and have neither heard ... nor received anything since. Disk2 of 11 redballed at 8:45 am today while I was out at 12:00 am in line 5098 of the syslog it started a mdcmd check nocorrect at 08:45 am in line 5111 it started having errors ... Apr 1 00:00:01 storage kernel: mdcmd (357): check NOCORRECT Apr 1 00:00:01 storage kernel: Apr 1 00:00:01 storage kernel: md: recovery thread woken up ... Apr 1 00:00:01 storage kernel: md: recovery thread checking parity... Apr 1 00:00:01 storage kernel: md: using 1152k window, over a total of 1953514552 blocks. Apr 1 00:02:52 storage emhttp: shcmd (75): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdf >/dev/null Apr 1 00:18:32 storage emhttp: shcmd (76): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdf >/dev/null Apr 1 03:37:39 storage emhttp: shcmd (77): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdf >/dev/null Apr 1 04:22:39 storage emhttp: shcmd (78): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdf >/dev/null Apr 1 05:10:46 storage emhttp: shcmd (79): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdf >/dev/null Apr 1 06:18:54 storage emhttp: shcmd (80): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdf >/dev/null Apr 1 06:35:43 storage emhttp: shcmd (81): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdf >/dev/null Apr 1 07:15:28 storage kernel: mdcmd (358): spindown 16 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: command 0xe3d66300, task 0xc372a000, timed out: BLK_EH_NOT_HANDLED Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: Enter sas_scsi_recover_host Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: trying to find task 0xc372a000 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: sas_scsi_find_task: aborting task 0xc372a000 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: /usr/src/sas/trunk/mvsas_tgt/mv_sas.c 1701:mvs_abort_task:rc= 5 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: sas_scsi_find_task: querying task 0xc372a000 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: /usr/src/sas/trunk/mvsas_tgt/mv_sas.c 1645:mvs_query_task:rc= 5 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: sas_scsi_find_task: task 0xc372a000 failed to abort Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: task 0xc372a000 is not at LU: I_T recover Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: I_T nexus reset for dev 0000000000000000 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: I_T 0000000000000000 recovered Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: sas: --- Exit sas_scsi_recover_host Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: ata1: translated ATA stat/err 0x41/04 to SCSI SK/ASC/ASCQ 0xb/00/00 Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: ata1: status=0x41 { DriveReady Error } Apr 1 08:45:11 storage kernel: ata1: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError } then later down I start getting stripe errors intermingled with more DriveReady errors I last accessed that drive around 3:30 am via AirVideo over a VPN connection ... with no apparent troubles. I tried getting a smart report for the drive which is not responding and it said Statistics for /dev/sdb WDC_WD20EARS-00M_WD-WCAZA4631006 smartctl -a -d ata /dev/sdb smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [i486-slackware-linux-gnu] (local build) Copyright (C) 2002-10 by Bruce Allen, http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device) A mandatory SMART command failed: exiting. To continue, add one or more '-T permissive' options. in the unRaid FAQ it says http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ#How_do_I_recover_from_a_hard_disk_failure.3F Thanks for your time, Bobby tower.unRaid.status-array.fault.txt syslog-2012-04-01.zip

Thank you everyone for you help and advise. I just wanted to be extra careful ;-) I recently bought a 500GB Seagate drive using it to replace the OS drive on my main computer. The smart reports on the drive looked good before I put it into the main system ... Within three months it was dying ... I just thought it was windows XP being a microsoft product By the time I realized the drive was dying I had a months worth of backups of a failing drive I installed Windows 7 to try it out and it asked if I wanted to backup the failing drive ... (So I think Windows 7 might handle smart information better than XP) A guide would be very helpful for us in interpreting the smart values ... any ambiguity in the definitions is probably to avoid people RMA'ing drives earlier rather than later

Hello, I'm just getting ready to put this into my array as a data drive and was curious as to it's health? It's a Western Digital 1.5TB Green Drive and I ran preclear_disk with -c 2 (twice) The UDMA_CRC_Error_Count looks like it went down so it all looks good ;-) Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VAL WOR THR TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 100 253 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 4 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 6 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 3 15:30:07 storage preclear_disk-start[4545]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VAL WOR THR TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 200 200 051 Pre-fail Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0027 100 253 021 Pre-fail Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 200 200 140 Pre-fail Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x002e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 32 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0032 100 253 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 5 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 4 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 16 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0 Oct 5 00:17:04 storage preclear_disk-finish[12534]: 200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x0008 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 0 Thanks for your time, Bobby