MisterWolfe

I attempted to preclear three of these drives simultaneously on my box, but ended up with two processes hanging and the third continuing to run. I think it may be a function of not enough RAM in my box (only 512mb until I put another gig in it next week) since the web GUI has also hung and I can't launch any new processes on the box. I'm at 33 hours for the first drive thus far, with my read and write speeds varying from 50MB/s to 114MB/s. I'm going to reboot after preclear completes on the first drive and then try to run the next two drives concurrently.

Thanks for the info. Just preclearing the drives now. So far so good.

Though when I to a dmesg | grep SATA I see ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 - ie Sata 1.. confused.

Ok. Follow up. I can see the drives when I go into the web admin console. I will assume this means it is working.

Having some issues getting my 3 new wd20ears drives detected as sata drives. Currently they show up as ata1.00 ATA-8: WDC WD20EARS ata2.00 " ata2.01 " I have 4 sata 2 ports on my motherboard. P5LD2-VM http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=orjq7G3HX3F0tRrN I have gone into the BIOS and it only lists the option to configure SATA as Standard IDE. so when I do this command dmesg|grep SATA|grep link I get nothing. Perhaps I need to flash a new BIOS version? I'd appreciate any input.