InvaderZim

I appreciate the help, though I'd been hoping for a more positive conclusion. I can always buy a new card and RMA this one, it's just disappointing that it doesn't work. If you can, please let us know what motherboard you were using. I had some notions of including a linux driver for this card to my unRAID kernel, since both the motherboard and the RAID card can see the HDs, however everything I've seen leads me to suspect the level of effort is prohibitive.

I'm having similar issues with the Promise FastTrak TX4660. Was there a solution here? Both the card and the mobo recognize the drives attached to the 4660 in JBOD mode, however they don't show up on my v5beta12 server. Do I need to incorporate a linux driver for the TX4660 into unRAID or something? syslog-2011-09-17.zip

That did the trick. Syslog attached in case it's helpful. syslog-2011-07-14.zip

Here you go... syslog.zip

Didn't work. The 3Tb drive synced without errors, but it has a red dot.

I'm running 5.0-beta8c. I downloaded it two days ago, I thought it was the latest rev? Maybe it was the pre-clearing that caused my issue. I'll try again with "d".

If Tom or anyone is reading this, I'm happy to run tests if that'll help us get 3Tb support sooner!

I've got a 3Tb Western Digital EZRX drive in my unRAID 5.0-beta8c box right now. Doesn't need any special hardware, the mobo sees it just fine. I pre-cleared it, and it's being detected properly as 3Tb by unRAID, however I'm not able to use it as a parity drive yet (red dot next to the drive).

In case anyone finds this thread later, I bought an Intel-based gigabit NIC and now I'm able to pull data off the drives smoothly and quickly. Thanks to Prostuff1 for their help.

I don't have hardware like this just lying around--I had to buy it first. Once I paid for the hardware, I was fully committed, and I still am. I'm not saying LimeTech should test their software on all hardware--that's a fool's errand--instead I'm saying that the could have highlighted potential challenges/risks on their website, so that a potential buyer could make an informed decision and then start digging through forums and wikis.

They don't have control, but they could make more of an effort to warn newphyte users before they commit to $120 purchases.

That's a good point--next time I want to buy a linux-related product, I won't trust the main site to alert me to incompatibility with common hardware, instead I'll plow through the wikis and forums for a few days, just in case.

Wow, I had no idea that unRAID was this hardware-specific. I'm surprised that I can't simply install Atheros linux drivers to resolve this issue. Either I buy a new motherboard or replace my PCI SATA controller with a PCI NIC and buy a new PCIe SATA controller to replace the first one. Both will set me back a lot of money, time and effort. Disappointing.

I ran MemTest for a few hours and it came back with no errors. Attached is a more recent syslog. I tried to access a file, but I can't see a trace of my trying to access that file. syslog-2011-06-26.txt

Hi, I'm new to unRAID, and new to linux, but I've been reading a lot in the wiki and the support forums. I've found a few similar issues, but none like the one below. I occasionally lose connection to the server via web (404 error), so I click the reload button of my browser, which seems to do the trick. Similarly, I lose connection to the contents of my flash drive, and even refreshing that window can take a long time or even time out entirely. I can write files to the HD easily enough (they're set to 4k MBR) but I get similar timeouts when trying to read the data back, or even trying to access the contents of a folder. My network is GB, all cat6 cables, and I've set the connections to default and to various jumbo frame sizes, to no avail. I'm attempting to access these files via Win7. Putty/telnet works without timeouts, however it was non-responsive during the initial parity check. Can anyone shed light on this? Mobo: ASUS P5G41T-M RAM: 8Gb CPU: Dual-Core E5800 @ 3.2GHz SATA: mobo has 6, plus 2x Promise TX2plus/TX4 Power: 650w HD: 2x WD EARS 2Tb (1 parity, 1 storage) in IcyDock MB455 SPF syslog_2011-06-26.txt