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Well all looks good. Here is the syslog. I only removed names of files moved my the mover. There is some overlap here from the previous syslog. I can run a third Parity Check this weekend and see if anything comes up. What else do I need to make this board approved? Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4: EH in SWNCQ mode,QC:qc_active 0x1 sactive 0x1 Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x1 defer_bits 0x0 last_issue_tag 0x0 Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: dhfis 0x1 dmafis 0x1 sdbfis 0x0 Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4: ATA_REG 0x40 ERR_REG 0x0 Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4: tag : dhfis dmafis sdbfis sacitve Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4: tag 0x0: 1 1 0 1 Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x1810000 action 0xe frozen Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4.00: hot unplug Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4: SError: { PHYRdyChg LinkSeq TrStaTrns } Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4.00: cmd 60/f8:00:17:3b:18/03:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 520192 in Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: res 40/00:00:17:3b:18/00:00:17:3b:18/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) Mar 25 23:06:28 Tower kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY } Mar 25 23:06:34 Tower kernel: ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Mar 25 23:06:38 Tower kernel: ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Mar 25 23:06:38 Tower kernel: ata4: soft resetting link Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower kernel: ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33 Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower kernel: ata4: EH complete Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB) Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower emhttp: shcmd (985): /usr/local/sbin/mover 2>&1 | logger & Mar 25 23:06:40 Tower logger: mover started Mar 25 23:43:07 Tower emhttp: shcmd (986): cp /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root- /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root Mar 25 23:43:07 Tower emhttp: shcmd (987): echo '# Generated mover schedule:' >>/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root Mar 25 23:43:07 Tower emhttp: shcmd (988): echo '30 1 * * /usr/local/sbin/mover 2>&1 | logger' >>/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root Mar 25 23:43:07 Tower emhttp: shcmd (989): crontab /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root Mar 25 23:43:07 Tower emhttp: shcmd (990): cp /etc/exports- /etc/exports Mar 25 23:43:07 Tower emhttp: shcmd (991): killall -HUP smbd Mar 25 23:43:07 Tower emhttp: shcmd (992): /etc/rc.d/rc.nfsd restart >/dev/null Mar 25 23:43:26 Tower logger: `./TV/TV/discovery.science.eco.tech.zero.waste.pdtv.xvid-t33v33.avi' -> `/mnt/user0/./TV/TV/discovery.science.eco.tech.zero.waste.pdtv.xvid-t33v33.avi' Mar 25 23:43:26 Tower logger: removed `./TV/TV/discovery.science.eco.tech.zero.waste.pdtv.xvid-t33v33.avi' Mar 25 23:44:45 Tower logger: `./TV/TV/discovery.science.human.body.ultimate.machine.sensation.pdtv.xvid-t33v33.avi' -> `/mnt/user0/./TV/TV/discovery.science.human.body.ultimate.machine.sensation.pdtv.xvid-t33v33.avi' Mar 25 23:44:45 Tower logger: removed `./TV/TV/discovery.science.human.body.ultimate.machine.sensation.pdtv.xvid-t33v33.avi' Mar 25 23:45:37 Tower ntpd[1436]: time reset -0.186718 s Mar 25 23:45:52 Tower ntpd[1436]: synchronized to 199.60.16.218, stratum 3 Name of files moved has been removed.All were successfull moving from cache drive to final destination. Mar 26 03:02:33 Tower ntpd[1436]: time reset -0.146327 s Mar 26 03:02:55 Tower ntpd[1436]: synchronized to 199.60.16.218, stratum 3 Name of files moved has been removed.All were successfull moving from cache drive to final destination. Mar 26 07:52:52 Tower logger: Cannot stat file /proc/1985/fd/160: No such file or directory Name of files moved has been removed.All were successfull moving from cache drive to final destination.Mar 26 11:01:31 Tower logger: mover finished Mar 26 11:47:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (994): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 26 11:47:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (995): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdh >/dev/null Mar 26 11:47:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (996): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdc >/dev/null Mar 26 11:47:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (997): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdi >/dev/null Mar 26 11:47:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (998): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdl >/dev/null Mar 26 11:51:04 Tower kernel: md: sync done. time=46171sec rate=21155K/sec Mar 26 11:51:04 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread sync completion status: 0 Mar 26 12:02:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (999): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdj >/dev/null Mar 26 12:37:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1000): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdb >/dev/null Mar 26 12:37:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1001): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 26 12:37:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1002): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/dev/null Mar 26 12:37:48 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1003): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdg >/dev/null Mar 26 17:23:49 Tower emhttp: Spinning up all drives... Mar 26 18:09:00 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1004): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdb >/dev/null Mar 26 18:09:00 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1005): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/dev/null Mar 26 18:10:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1006): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 26 18:10:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1007): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 26 18:10:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1008): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdh >/dev/null Mar 26 18:10:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1009): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdg >/dev/null Mar 26 18:10:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1010): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdc >/dev/null Mar 26 18:10:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1011): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdi >/dev/null Mar 26 18:10:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1012): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdl >/dev/null Mar 26 18:25:49 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1013): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdj >/dev/null Mar 26 19:02:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1014): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 26 19:02:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1015): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/dev/null Mar 26 19:02:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1016): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 26 23:50:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1017): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdb >/dev/null Mar 26 23:50:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1018): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 26 23:50:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1019): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 26 23:51:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1020): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/dev/null Mar 26 23:51:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1021): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdh >/dev/null Mar 26 23:51:50 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1022): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdc >/dev/null Mar 27 02:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1023): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 27 02:32:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1024): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/dev/null Mar 27 02:32:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1025): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1026): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1027): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1028): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1029): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdh >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1030): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdg >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1031): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdc >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1032): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdi >/dev/null Mar 27 04:31:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1033): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdl >/dev/null Mar 27 04:46:51 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1034): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdj >/dev/null Mar 27 05:57:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1035): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdl >/dev/null Mar 27 06:25:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1036): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 27 06:26:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1037): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 27 06:27:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1038): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdi >/dev/null Mar 27 06:35:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1039): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdj >/dev/null Mar 27 07:28:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1040): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/dev/null Mar 27 07:28:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1041): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdk >/dev/null Mar 27 07:29:19 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1042): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdh >/dev/null Mar 27 07:29:19 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1043): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdg >/dev/null Mar 27 07:52:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1044): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdb >/dev/null Mar 27 07:53:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1045): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sda >/dev/null Mar 27 07:57:52 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1046): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdi >/dev/null

Does this work for xbox streaming?

The Parity Check passed. I will post the syslog when I get a chance. I'll look into which cable is causing the problem as well. Thanks Guys...

Wow! You will certainly win over alot of windows users then. Add antivirus and spyware removers to the list. I love the fact the unraid is built on linux, if I download straight to linux (using a non privileged account would be better), and then have a daily antivirus linux based scan the files before playing with them in windows (I will always have at least 1 windows box in the house to play command and conquer!), that would be amazing! VMWARE Server or ESXi addon...even better! Media server (if it can serve xbxox and ps3 all files including mkv files on the fly, then wow!) SSH addon The PC backups you already mentioned... I look forward to this.

Bubba, which apps are you using? I know which one you use for newgroups (I wish it had rss feeds), but what about the others?

Since when is FTP secure? It sends the password in clear text as does telent, last time I checked. Now if you are running ssh and sftp, then at least that is more secure. How do you make unraid secure? You could install tools like IDS, firewalls, antivirus/spyware checkers. Recoomendations? SELinux, (freeBSD) developed by the National Security Agency (NSA) is supposed to be the most secure, assuming you configure it correctly. But at what point do you say enough, this is a home server, the data on here that is sensitive is already encrypted using TrueCrypt Setup 6.1. If a hacker gets in, he can download/delete all he wants, all the files are replaceable (offsite offline backups). Can Unraid run on any Linux OS? I know Pandora's box... Now that said, I also agree with NAS. Even though my firewall has almost all ports closed, I get constant alerts from people bouncing off Australian servers trying to hack my home network. Every attack so far has come from Austalian ISP servers. I cannot trac it further to see the originating country. I do not even use a dynamic ip address service, and I my address changes frequently (every time I force a refresh). So there are script kiddies and professionals out there scanning and probing, trying to setup bot attacks, capture credit card info, and identity theft. I also do not use Torrents.

Sounds to me like we need an advanced tab / Maintenance settings page in unraid where you can set all this stuff. Try to avoid forcing the end user to go to the cmd line, especially if they are used to working in windows (cringe). So crontab, go script, other commands to run at boot time. It would be a nice feature, not hard to make. Now, other than unmenu and bubba Raid, are there any other add-on's or ports of unraid? Has anyone made a precompiled sabnzb addon? I have yet to build a full dev slackware version of unraid. Where does the time go...

AWESOME guys. I was using a couple of different packages, but I think this one works the best, and a bonus having it precompiled in Slackware. How often are you running it and what is your script for running it? Can you save all the md5 files on a separate disk by themselves?

That is what I told the pre-sales tech. I think he really did not know the answer and wanted me off the phone. The other board the is pretty wicked, but not sure if it is supported is the supermicro X8ST3-F. 8 sas/sataII, + 6 sataII, video, ipkvm, bit pricey in the 400$ dollar range, but the 8 sas comes with an LSI SAS1068E controller. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8ST3-F.cfm

I noticed something similar on mine as well, but only for ATA4. It happened when both the parity check started and the file mover started at the same time , and the drives were powered off beforehand. I will check my logs tonight. See my post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3536.0 Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: EH in SWNCQ mode,QC:qc_active 0x3 sactive 0x3 Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x3 defer_bits 0x0 last_issue_tag 0x1 Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: dhfis 0x3 dmafis 0x1 sdbfis 0x0 Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: ATA_REG 0x40 ERR_REG 0x0 Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: tag : dhfis dmafis sdbfis sacitve Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: tag 0x0: 1 1 0 1 Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: tag 0x1: 1 0 0 1 Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: limiting SATA link speed to 1.5 Gbps Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x3 SErr 0x1810000 action 0xe frozen Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4.00: hot unplug Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4: SError: { PHYRdyChg LinkSeq TrStaTrns } Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4.00: cmd 60/00:00:e7:b7:00/04:00:00:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 524288 in Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: res 40/00:08:e7:bb:00/00:08:e7:bb:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY } Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4.00: cmd 60/98:08:e7:bb:00/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 1 ncq 208896 in Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: res 40/00:08:e7:bb:00/00:08:e7:bb:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) Mar 25 23:01:53 Tower kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY } Mar 25 23:01:59 Tower kernel: ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Mar 25 23:02:03 Tower kernel: ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Mar 25 23:02:03 Tower kernel: ata4: soft resetting link Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: EH complete Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB) Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: EH in SWNCQ mode,QC:qc_active 0x4 sactive 0x4 Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x4 defer_bits 0x0 last_issue_tag 0x2 Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: dhfis 0x4 dmafis 0x4 sdbfis 0x3 Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: ATA_REG 0x40 ERR_REG 0x0 Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: tag : dhfis dmafis sdbfis sacitve Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: tag 0x2: 1 1 0 1 Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x4 SErr 0x1810000 action 0xe frozen Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4.00: hot unplug Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4: SError: { PHYRdyChg LinkSeq TrStaTrns } Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4.00: cmd 60/00:10:e7:c8:00/01:00:00:00:00/40 tag 2 ncq 131072 in Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: res 40/00:10:e7:c8:00/00:10:e7:c8:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) Mar 25 23:02:05 Tower kernel: ata4.00: status: { DRDY } Mar 25 23:02:11 Tower kernel: ata4: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) Mar 25 23:02:15 Tower kernel: ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset Mar 25 23:02:15 Tower kernel: ata4: soft resetting link Mar 25 23:02:16 Tower kernel: ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) Mar 25 23:02:17 Tower kernel: ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 Mar 25 23:02:17 Tower kernel: ata4: EH complete Mar 25 23:02:17 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 1465149168 512-byte hardware sectors (750156 MB) Mar 25 23:02:17 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off Mar 25 23:02:17 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 Mar 25 23:02:17 Tower kernel: sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

I think I might have just jinxs myself. So I started the parity check, and the mover. I saw these errors. All drives are green right now. Just wondering if the error came up because the drives were powered down? See Attachment It seems fine now. I'll keep an eye on it. It might also be a lose cable, as I was playing around in there last week. I have not switched all my cables to locking cables yet, although I do have them in stock here.

Guys I was just going over the MB List : http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility#Hardware_Reported_to_Work and was wondering if any of these had all there onboard SATA controllers on the PCI-E bust instead of the PCI bus? Correct me if I am wrong, but can the GIGe Nic card alone saturate the PCI BUS? So add a few drivers with Parity also running on the PCI bus, and you hit a bottleneck. Any recommendations for boards with 8+ sata controllers on PCI-E bus, as well as the NIC on the PCI-E bus?

I just called ASUS indiana, and they tell me that the 10 SATA ports are all on the PCI bus. Hmm....This is not good in my book. I guess I will keep searching for a better Motherboard where the SATA controllers are on the PCI-E bus, unless someone here can tell me it will not be a bottleneck between the NIC Card (Assume is on the PCI bus) and 10 SATA Drives, 2 Parallel drives.

I drilled four holes to mount the floor one. That is actually my Cache drive, so if the heat get's to it, no big deal. I did notice the temperature go up a little with the case open. This is my current case. My next Case will probably be a 4020 or the Lian Cube (30 drive). I prefer the hot swap option of the 4020. Now if they came out with a cheap 4020(no hot swap), I would just grab it. I originally had an 800 Watt power supply in this rig, it went bad, and now that I see it is stable with a lower power cpu, I will stick to it. I have many drives to add. 11 drives, I might have miscounted! Too much port. Maybe I should add one more Drive to the floor! That would bring it up to 13! Hmm..... I guess the question is, with 2TB drives, how many drives do you need to connect? In Theory, this should do me just fine, but the "Tim the tool Man" gene says go for more! Grin. Let me fix the duplicate file errors, and then run another parity check. Maybe I should buy the SuperMicro PCI-X Card and replace my two PCI cards. I was tempted to try out raid zero for both Cache and Parity. I just need to find something that does the trick.

Done. I posted my existing MOBO test in the MOBO section...

If you try to post a new topic, and your file size is too big, you have to start over from scratch (New Topic) other wise it keeps saying you already posted or hit refresh... You can not resubmit it, at least not with Mozilla 3.07 on XP Pro SP3.

ASUS P5NT WS (775) (See Specs below) Intel Core2 Duo E6850 Power: OCZ520ADJ Memory:OCZ Platinum 4GB PC2-6400 DDR2 2xPromise SATA300 TX4 4 Port SATA Controller Card PCI (Could easily add an 8 port Supermicro pci-X card for a total of 23 Drives... Drives: All Seagate 400GB, 750, 1TB, and a 200GB Maxtor for Cache (temporary) Case: Tsunami Dream Case (it's an ok case) Ambient Temperature is 22C in the house. parity ata-ST31000340AS_9QJ1VGNP 23°C 976,762,552 - 2,363,487 339,038 0 disk1 ata-ST31000340AS_5QJ036TR 26°C 976,762,552 93,194,240 2,167,189 106 0 disk2 ata-ST31000640AS_3QJ00AJF 28°C 976,762,552 290,135,592 8,485,371 66,318 0 disk3 ata-ST3750640AS_5QD046F9 32°C 732,574,552 555,133,104 183,369 2,185,084 0 disk4 ata-ST3750330AS_9QK0Q3JY 26°C 732,574,552 288,106,992 2,110,687 4,344 0 disk5 ata-ST3400832AS_3NF0T88Q 30°C 390,711,352 212,624,160 1,132,704 33 0 disk6 ata-ST31000340AS_9QJ1KE5W 27°C 976,762,552 329,884,860 2,519,143 2,548 0 disk7 ata-ST3750640AS_5QD03EHT 29°C 732,574,552 553,760,328 1,989,912 33 0 disk8 ata-ST3750640AS_5QD04LCF 34°C 732,574,552 405,054,348 3,469,122 223 0 disk9 ata-ST3750640AS_5QD0CZSP 30°C 732,574,552 608,623,200 2,061,159 33 0 cache ata-Maxtor_6B200M0_B413F2CH 32°C 195,360,952 5,250,460 200,213 246,993 0 Lots of room to add more drives on the controllers, no place left in the case! That Norco 4020 looks good. I tested for file corruption using MD5 Checksum with this software: http://www.exactfile.com 3/24/2009 23:35:09 Move From Local Drive to TOWER:\TestFile.x264.mkv 8513693882 bytes MD5: Before:d6029cc734c43b196e318d7c2cbfa953 After :d6029cc734c43b196e318d7c2cbfa953 MotherBoard Specs: CPU LGA775 socket for Intel® Core™2 Extreme/Core™2 Duo/Pentium® Extreme/Pentium® D/Pentium® 4/Celeron® D Processors Intel® Quad-core CPU Ready Compatible with Intel® 06/05B/05A processors Chipset NVIDIA® nForce® 680i LT SLI Front Side Bus 1333/1066/800/533 MHz Memory Dual channel memory architecture 4 x DIMM, max. 8GB, DDR2-800/667/533, non-ECC, unbuffered memory *When installing total memory of 4GB capacity or more, Windows 32-bit operation system may only recognize less than 3GB. Hence, a total installed memory of less than 3GB is recommended. Expansion Slots 3 x PCI Express x16 slot, support NVIDIA® SLI™ technology, at x8, x8, x16 or x16, x1, x16 speed 1 x PCI-X slot 2 x PCI Express x1 slot 1 x PCI 2.2 slot Storage South bridge supports: - 1 x Ultra DMA 133/100/66/33 - 6 x Serial ATA 3.0Gb/s - NVIDIA MediaShield™ RAID supports RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5 and JBOD span cross Serial ATA drives - 1x eSATA 3Gb/s Silicon Image Sil3531 LAN NVIDIA built-in dual Gigabit MAC with external Marvell 88E1116 PHY Support NVIDIA DualNet® technology High Definition Audio RealTek ALC888 8-channel High Definition Audio CODEC Support Jack-Sensing, Multi-streaming and Jack-Retasking Coaxial, Optical S/PDIF out IEEE 1394a VIA6308S controller supports 2 x 1394a ports USB Max. 10 USB2.0/1.1 ports(6 ports at mid-board, 4 ports at back panel) Here is a pciture of the setup: I have the syslog since 27 FEb 2009 to 22 March 2009. I removed names of duplicate files in the syslog for security reasons and left a commment there stating so. The files are very descriptive. I noticed it says "Phoenix BIOS detected: BIOS may corrupt low RAM, working it around.", but my MD5 Checks out...

Motherboard qualifications... I will do it for my existing asus board. Of course when I buy the other one, I will also do it. I will have to lookup the testing requirements, to make sure all is good. I am 100% up for testing and helping out unraid and members. I just need a little time! I do not know what parents with 4 or more kids do, because I have 1 and it eats up my time! I will get to it though.

For those of you who want to do some benchmarking, Intel offers a free tool to do it. Of course there is also IOMETER. The Nas PErformance toolkit required an intel cpu I believe.... http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-nas-performance-toolkit/

The board I am using now, is not on the list, and works fine, even with the nvidia chipsets. Do you recall when Tom said he would have Nic Teaming as an option? If slax is 32bit, then there is a 4GB limit on memory right. Has anyone tried it on slam64 or bluewhite64?

Wow BJP, Long reply. I figure if this mobo does not work, I will use it for my htpc. Not a big deal. I was planning on doing raid 0 anyways for cache and parity drives. So the smart drive option is great. The chipsets are all intel or marvell so I expect it will work with unraid just fine. The only thing missing in this mobo is remote admin and built in video...but I have tons of old pci and pcie cards for that. Teaming, well if you build your own slackware, then you can team your cards. I think 2 card teaming is also on Tom's List for the future. I think I will give it a whirl. Now I need to find the best memory option and cpu. Although it supports the fast memory, 4 x DIMM, Max. 16 GB, DDR2 1200/1066/800/667 Non-ECC,Un-buffered Memory , I think I might pickup the cheapest 800 8 or 16 GB if Caching will help.

Is it possible to run unraid on other linux's other than slackware/slax?

Have you guys seen the stats on these MB! 10 SATA connectors to start, with lots of expansion ports! 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot at max. x16 link (blue) 1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot at max. x8 link (white) 2 x PCI Express x16 slot at max. x4 link (black) 1 x PCIe x1 2 x PCI I think I might give this a whirl...unless someone has already tried this mb? I want to get off the nvida chipsets, and reduce the use of existing PCI SATAII cards. All I need now is the norco case and maybe one SUPERMICRO AOC-USASLP-S8i 3Gb/s Eight-Port 142$ on Newegg plus cable... I would be good to go for 18 drives (maybe make my cache drive a raid 0 if unraid supports it) so then I would have the maximum number of hard drives. Please comment on the motherboard. Anyone know the cable product code needed to go from sas(ipass) to 4 Sata II? I know they have a 15cm and a 50cm cable. I am wondering if the 15cm cable is long enough for the Norco case.

Which raid 0 controllers are working for unriad? I was thinking of using raid 0 for the cache and parity drives. Would that not speed up the box?? I know someone somewhere said they had raid 0 working on the stock unraid.

Do the cables come with it, or do you need extra cables? Added my own answer: You need to purchase the cables separately 2x CBL-0097L-02