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  1. Give me time to learn how and what to run from the command line - I am also away from eeh NAS for a couple of weeks as well
  2. Had Unassigned devices installed and I uninstalled it for some troubleshooting, Trying to re-install it and it wont install - no errors or messages, just the unraid moving logo and then back to the app screen. Nothing gets installed. Is there something I need to do to get it to reinstall, such as delete a directory or something. Thanks
  3. Thanks, I worked out my mistake but you were onto me too quickly. qnap-ec is not recognizing my NAS (TS-EC879U-RP - Rack mount NAS) so Autofan is not working yet
  4. Cheers QNAp plugin does not appear to support my NAS - TS-EC879U-RP
  5. Hi everyone I recently rebuilt an old PC up for my replacement unraid server, but it failed somewhere along the way - unsure why. A QNAP rack mount 8 bay with 16tb of drives cam along at a great price so I have decided to use that instead now. It boots unraid fine but the fans are loud - I guess there is not control over them. My question is - I just move my flash drive from the old server to the new server and booted from it so that all the plugins etc would still be there. Yes, I know the previous drives will not be there and I have to reconfigure the system for the new ones. Is this a valid way of "upgrading" or should I start from scratch again with the flash drive and put a clean unraid on there and rebuild everything? Is there anything special or extra I should do with the QNAP.
  6. As usual, spend time not being successful and then ask a question and you then find teh answer 5 minutes later To answer this for others, the Device should be /dev/ttyUSB0 Cheers
  7. Hi All Back after a very long time - my old NAS is still kicking along on V5-beta12. Anyway, I had a machine become spare so I am building it up as the replacement NAS. I have a Small APC BackUPS Pro 420 to use with it and I am trying to get it working with Unraid. I installed the windows version of APCUPSD and I have got it working there, so I know everything hardware wise is OK. Based on the config file in windows, I set the UPS Setting the same. In UNRAID UPS Cable: Custom Custom UPS cable: 940-0024C UPS Type: APCsmart Device: ttyUSB0 But Unraid is reporting Lost Communications. My guess is that it is the Device that is wrong. I have a FTDI compliant USB serial adapter and unraid is seeing it USB Devices Bus 003 Device 004 Port 3-2ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 Serial (UART) IC and from my limited linux knowledge I googled and ran at the terminal dmesg | grep tty which returns this (unlugged a few time is my guess for the number of entries) [ 0.123130] printk: console [tty0] enabled [260905.877734] usb 3-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [261910.361887] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 [262834.499886] usb 3-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 [263189.612696] ftdi_sio ttyUSB0: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now disconnected from ttyUSB0 [264133.975681] usb 3-2: FTDI USB Serial Device converter now attached to ttyUSB0 So my assumptions is that the device is ttyUSB0 Can anyone assist with a linux noob and point me in teh right direction to get this working. Thanks Mick PS - YEs, the status says the service is running as well
  8. www.shoppingexpress.com.au/ They will have these 8TB drive for sale at $299 as part of their EOFY sales. ($37.38/TB) Lots of other NAS drives going cheap as well WD Red 4TB - $209 ($52.25/TB) WD Red 3TB - $139 (46.33/TB)
  9. I'm no expert in these waters, just looking into a similar situation. I think maybe you need to automate a logon to the unraid server and stop and halt it before the ESXi server goes down. There is a shutdown.sh script that is supposed to do what you want in ESXi, but if it is not working nicely with your unraid VMTools to do the clean shutdown then try "remotely" shutting down Unraid first as a separate job. Mick
  10. There was a plop specifically configured for Unraid. I am not sure where it is, but maybe start in the ATLAS thread.
  11. Hi all I built an Atlas clone a couple of years ago - 5beta12 version - using ESXi 5 Its been running fine and its time to upgrade from the beta version of unraid to a stable version. When building, I decided not to use plop, but rather create a hard drive in the guest for the system to boot from. Call it bad judgement, I only crated a 500mb drive - large enough to load unraid onto and a bit of space to spare. Now when it comes time to upgrade, the drive is full and I can;t copy the new files onto it. I cleaded out a couple of the add-ons that I had loaded in - twonky, etc, but I cant create enough space. Whats the best way forward from here I see two options, but there are questions and concerns on both 1 - increase the size of the drive from 500mb to 4GB. Expanding is easy, but getting the filesystem to use the new full size of the partition is proving troublesome. I copied the virtual disk to another PC running vmware, expanded it OK and then started GParted to take care of the filesystem. I noticed that it was a fat32 system and GParted stopped with an error and was not able to complete the expansion. 2 - Move back to booting from the USB stick. This means using Plop based on original build info. I am not sure if the use of Plop is still required for booting from a USB stick in ESXi. My concern here is where is all the raid info kept. Will the configuration etc be there and will the array be intact? Are there any other caveats to moving back to booting from the USB stick instead of the virtual hard drive. I need some guidance on the best way forward and you guys are the Gurus to help Mick
  12. Thanks Just for clarification, I boot from a virtualised disk, in the go file it gets mounted mount -L BOOT /mnt/vmdk This prevents the above method from working for me "/dev/sda already mounted" Just like flash has a share for windows to access, I want to create one [permanent] for the mounted drive above (BOOT).
  13. No one I just want to know how to share the drive so I can copy files to it from windows like we can for the flash drive.
  14. I have my system booting from a vm disk and it mounts as /mnt/vmdk. I want to make it visible via samba like the flash and every other drive (I need to copy the latest version to it for an upgrade) I tried editing /etc/samba/smb-shares.conf but upon reboot the drive was not visible in window explorer and the addition to the file was gone. So I have obviously missed something simple, but my linux is poor (and that being generous). What do I have to do to make the folder /mnt/vmdk visible via samba? Thanks Mick
  15. Thank you Did not realize upgrading was so easy. So with the Movies share, I have a split level of 2, as there is a folder HD & SD under the root of the share. This means they can be split across any of the allowed drives, but they are not going to drives that have free space. I suspect that I have the min free space too low (500,000 - 500 meg) which is allowing folders to be created on them and then large HD files are "stuck" not being able to go any where else. Does this make sense? To fix this I should up the min free space to say 25Gb to prevent this from happening. I assume that this is what is causing the issues with my users share as well. Even though it is at 1 and available to all disks, the min free is too low and thus the folders are created on a disk with low space and then they are "stuck" there. To initially fix this, can I manually move files around from disk1 to disk 2 where there is free space available. Simple features was remove (regretfully - it was a nice add-on) so I will give the upgrade a go. Mick