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    Dynamix - System Temp

    in User Customizations

    Posted

    @Maor detect button just keeps writing "coretemp jc42" and shows no sencores in the dropdown menu

     

    Changing the name to "jc42" worked for a second I could select sensors but hitting the Apply button made them all disappear again?

    Same thing the first time I did a detect and then all gone?

     

    Could be a small bug, beacuse everything was detected perfectly and then hitting Aply and it was gone

    Dynamix - System Temp

    in User Customizations

    Posted

    Hi All

     

    I hope this is the right place to ask this...

     

    I got the temp working and then the probes was gone and I haven't been able to get them back?

    I just got the new Gigabyte motherboard C246-WU4 supporting the new Intel’s Xeon E-2176G

    and sofar its been working great with UNRAID

     

    I have deleted the plugin and re-installed it but havent been able to get the sensors back again?

    Running the command: root@Tower:~# sensors-detect got the below output.

    And yes I have also tried to go through the https://wiki.unraid.net/index.php/Setting_up_CPU_and_board_temperature_sensing

    but without any success.

     

    image.png.d18228ff39688cd8608819a773de0ec5.png

     

    Driver `jc42':
      * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at efa0'
        Busdriver `i2c_i801', I2C address 0x18
        Chip `IDT TSE2004' (confidence: 5)
      * Bus `SMBus I801 adapter at efa0'
        Busdriver `i2c_i801', I2C address 0x1a
        Chip `IDT TSE2004' (confidence: 5)

    Driver `coretemp':
      * Chip `Intel digital thermal sensor' (confidence: 9)

    Do you want to generate /etc/sysconfig/lm_sensors? (yes/NO): yes
    Copy prog/init/lm_sensors.init to /etc/init.d/lm_sensors
    for initialization at boot time.
    You should now start the lm_sensors service to load the required
    kernel modules.

    Unloading i2c-dev... OK

     

    If anyone have any input on what to do next?

    Again thanks for a great plugin and this great support community its really extraordinary!

    Cheers

    Casperse

     

    UPS PowerWalker VI 3000 RLE

    in Hardware

    Posted

    I think that's only when the power is cut (Which shouldn't be very often) or am I wrong anyone who owns one of these UPS?

    Found one that have both USB and the Netcard (Dell version model) so I should be able to use it with two servers!

    Using Synology as the master and then this plugin on my Unraid server:

     

    Fan Wall Pins?

    in Hardware

    Posted

    Hi All

     

    I bought the "Servercase UK SC-4324S = Norco RPC-4224 4U" and it have the 3 fan Wall and a power connector.

    BUT on the side of the power connector there is some pins (See picture)

    image.png.ed86b1ad64fce302a5eb9763aef651dd.png

     

    Better see it here:

    image.thumb.png.1931a4d1fc84abcf500679b5e6c75263.png

     

    What are they used for?

    It will be pretty hard to get to them when I have mounted it and the MB....(Impossible)

     

    Hope someone can clear this up for me

     

    Thanks

    Casperse

     

     

    Dragon, my new unRAID Build

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

    Posted

    @hawihoneyI think you are comparing the wrong M.2 drives  :-)

    The loss of a SATA port is for use of a M.2 SATA SSD - and the speed here is the same as a normal SSD

    The M.2 PCIe NVMe (Fast one) does not have any impact on my SATA connections.

     

    If I select the first M.2 slot for a fast M.2 PCIe NVMe, and the other M.2 slot as a "Slow" M.2 SATA SSD then there will be no impact to existing SATA connections or my PCIEX4_2 slot and I get one more SSD drive and one fast M.2 PCIe

     

    Dragon, my new unRAID Build

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

    Posted · Edited by casperse

    Thanks for sharing your personal opinions 😊

     

    I ended up with the Gigabyte C246-WU4 I needed "Full size PCie" ports and 10 Sata ports. Also I need 4 full slots with 4X & 8X speed.

    Since I have a 24+2 drive case that I would like to use 100%

     

    Yes it all comes down to having enough PCI-e slots... (-;

    image.png.d3d815dceca893aee0d8c9ca2f242057.png

     

    Yes using the first M.2 with PCIe have no impact. but using the secound M.2 slot would mean that I would lose the last PCIe socket

     

    image.png.a0350da9d8c4acb65c3c5a4003624be2.png

     

    On the positive side I have the option to have one more CASH drive as a M.2 SSD :-)

     

    image.thumb.png.1ec3994a298275ccfc84a3de956e3e7d.png  

     

    I needed x8, x4, x8, x4 - For two controller cards, a ethernetcard and a graphic card.

    If I use the 8 sata on the board for the rack I could save one of the LSI cards....

     

    So this is actually the only MB I could find that supports what I would like to do

    UPDATE: Its very hard to get this motherboard still waiting for it......

     

    Dragon, my new unRAID Build

    in Unraid Compulsive Design

    Posted

    New to UNRAID and I am building with the same CPU as you but with another MB/RAM setup (Need more SATA ports and all out of PCI-e slots LOL.)

     

    I have some questions I hope you can help me with :-)

    • Any reason you selected 1x2TB cash drive instead of having 2x1TB for extra security on your cash?
    • Are your VM drive M.2 setup as a UAD? - I guess that would provide barebone speed for your VM's right?
    • You did a screen capture of Plex transcoding in your other post, what installation of Plex are you using on UNRAID? (Linuxserver Docker?)
    • Also have you placed your Plex metadata on the cash drive or on a SSD mounted as a UAD? (Is there a best recommended practice for this?)
    • I was wondering if it would be better to use the M.2 as a UAD for VM's and also Metadata and maybee even for temporary Plex transcoding?
    • I also "only" have 32G RAM and I don't think that would be enough to use RAM-drive as a tmp for transcoding? (But it would prolong my SSD life!)
    • Do you know if M.2 lifetime is also impacted by high usage - like tmp transcoding usage?
    • Shares between different storage servers (I have a 24 drive Synology) is it best using SMB shares or NFS with UNRAID?

    Thanks for a very informative and finally a happy ending on your very hard journey building your new system.

    I hope I get the right CPU still waiting for it.....

     

    Thinking about the E-2186G....

    in Motherboards and CPUs

    Posted · Edited by casperse

    4 hours ago, Tybio said:

     

    One note, you could use the 8 SATA ports on the MB rather than the second LSI card, that would let you fit 2x8 and 1x4.  So you could make it work, it would just have no room for expansion and only one M.2 slot working (#1).  I can confirm all of this when I get mine up and running, but that's waiting on the processor.

    Thats not a bad idea! So if I buy the Gigabyte board that have 10 Sata (I also need two sata for internal SSD drives)  and I would end up with a spare 4X slot?

     

    According to the homepage the option is:

    8x - Graphic (16x but should run okay at 8x?)

    4x - Intel Pro 1000 VT Quad Port NIC - PCI Express 

    8x - LSI SAS9201-16i PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS 6Gb/s HBA Card (Drives)

    4x - Free? expansion if I need more Ethernet throughput and a 10GB ethernet card

     

    BUT then the SATA controller need to be supported by unraid/ESXi (I plan to run ESXi, and then Unraid, and windows or linux machine)

    just not sure how to be certain that the onboard controller is supported by "everything" 

     

    gigabyte.jpg

     

    BTW: Which ECC RAM modules are you buying? 

    Thinking about the E-2186G....

    in Motherboards and CPUs

    Posted · Edited by casperse

    I have been looking for the same setup (The rumor is that there will soon be a 8 core version  Intel’s Xeon E-2188G? ) but I think I have found a problem!

     

    I have bought a 24 bay storage server case: 4u-server-case-w-24x-35-hot-swappable-satasas-drive-bays-6gbs-minisas-550m-deep-sc-4324s

    And after getting some great help here from the group on LSI controllers and cables in this post LINK

     

    I now have the following items:
    8X (16X) Quadro P2000 card (Game server passthrough or Plex transcoding better than quicksync)
    8X - LSI SAS9201-16i PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS 6Gb/s HBA Card (Drives)
    8X - LSI SAS9201-8i PCI-e Controller / 9211-8i (IT-mode) (Drives)
    4X Intel Pro 1000 VT Quad Port NIC - PCI Express (Need more Ethernet throughput or to be replaced with a 10GB ethernet card?)
    = 28 Lanes?

     

    None of the C246 chipset boards/CPU would be able to run with the above cards (Right?)

    ASUS WS C246 PRO

    Gigabyte C246-WU4

    Right now it seems my only option is to go with Xeon W? that supports 48 lanes vs the E-Series 16 lanes? (I want ECC)

     

    Or am I missing something....

     

     

    Controller requirements for new case?

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted · Edited by casperse

    Hi @johnnie.black 
    I finally got two LSI cards from ebay delivered (Used)

    • LSI SAS 9201-8i PCI-Express Controller  9211-8i (IT-mode) - FW rev: 20.00.07.00-IT
    • LSI SAS9201-16i PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS 6Gbs HBA Card - FW rev: 5.00.13.00-IT
    I have looked around and can't find the updated FW for the -16i card also the guides to perform the upgrade is different UEFI, DOS
    Also some are stating to skip the 20 version and use a v21?

    I have done many firmware updates on different controllers, but seems that this one might be better with an older version?
    Again thanks for your help couldn't have done this without your and the other comments to this thread!
     
     
    Cheers
    Casperse

    Okay this went pretty smooth, to anyone else who wants to do this just:
     
    Quote

     

    Boot to FreeDos with USB place files in root of USB


    sas2flsh -listall --> (Check current Bios version)

    sas2flsh -o -e 6 --> (Deletes firmware)

    sas2flsh -o -f 9201-16i_it.bin -b mptsas2.rom --> (Update firmware and bios rom)

    sasflsh -listall --> (Check Bios upgrade ok?)

    Ctrl + Del (Reboot)

    Ctrl + c (Set card in IT mode) - Dont see anything else than IT as a selection on the till?

     

    The card now reports as a SAS2116_1(B1) but the Utill still show it as a SAS9201-16i main thing is that everything works! 

    Controller requirements for new case?

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted

    Thanks @johnnie.black Ok, running out of time and can't really find any PCI 3.0 that isn't close to full price and then you get warranty

    also goes for expanders for 24 drives is non existing on Ebay

     

    Would this be okay for 24 bays (Approved HBA card to be used for unRaid HBA mode)

    LSI SAS9201-16i PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS 6Gb/s HBA Card
    LSI SAS2008-8I SATA 9211-8i 6Gbps 8 Ports HBA PCI-E RAID Controller Card

     

    Is the higher number, the newest card and therefore the best value for money, one is 9201 and the other is 9211

    Getting the right CPU & MB?

    in Hardware

    Posted · Edited by casperse
    missing

    Hi All

     

    Since allot of people using unRaid also is running Plex, I believe this is the right forum to ask this question in...

    Also I am really impressed by the forum supporters like @johnnie.black and others to help the "newbies"

    So I have tried to gather as much information as possible to help you help me built this 😉

    image.png.c7779b8a9839ee8e28f90e2c90dd9107.png

    First requirements:

    image.png.a09e3fbf3a3d999fe6e47b588cf337c3.png

     

    I tried to make a table of all the CPU's but it didn't really help me, because the MB is also a very important factor and I dont know alot about Xeons

    Update: The Passmark [20.000] was without the Quadro P2000 for Plex! so I think it can be lower now

    image.thumb.png.bfc3f138410ac124e86a6ca79667f357.png

     

    My personal input to my research is that if I don't need ECC ram? and IPMI support? and if Intel's Core i9 9900K is supported by ESXi?

    Then I might be better of waiting for that to launch? on the other hand Xeon is lower power and sort of built for this virtual Home Lab?

     

    As always I highly appreciate you sharing your thoughts and experiences 👍

    BTW: I am currently running a Synology server with 24 drives so this would also be a test to see if I could move everything over to this multi-platform?

     

    Best regards

    Casperse

     

    Controller requirements for new case?

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted · Edited by casperse

    Thanks! - So after reviewing all your valuable information I have drilled it down between 3 solutions for a minimum of 24 drives or more:

    1. 2 HBA cards: LSI SAS3008 9300-8I/LSI 9211-8i/LSI 9207-8i ? ??? and a LSI 9202-16e (Any model recommendations buying used LSI with PCI 3.0? EBAY is a jungle of different models)
    2. Expander 36: RES3CV360 and LSI 9207-8i and 8 x SFF-8087 miniSAS to SFF-8087 miniSAS cables between the cards (Short ones would be nice)
    3. Expander 24: LSI 9207-8i and the RES2SV240 expander and some cables? (I don't like buying used cables, so new ones any brand recommendations?)

    BTW: I still only have 6 SAS ports on the back-plate of my new server case, so regardless of the above solutions I can order 6 of these cables with the case right?

    Controller requirements for new case?

    in Storage Devices and Controllers

    Posted

    So this way the Expander would have higher capasity than it would actuall need for 24 bays (36 Expander might be more expensive than buying two cards 🙂)

    I found this article (Because I also would like to use ESXi running Un-raid) and here the MB actual have a built in LSI controller!

    https://www.vladan.fr/supermicro-single-cpu-board-for-esxi-homelab-x10srh-cln4f

    So was wondering if I then only needed to buy the expansion to such a board?