mrjofus1959

OK so when I (finally) upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0.6 yesterday I followed the instructions here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Server_Version_5.0-beta_Release_Notes Since I was coming from 4.7 I used the section for Version 4.7 which only had me copy bzroot and bzimage from the downloaded zip file to the root of my USB flash drive. No syslinux.cfg, syslinux.exe or menu.c32. The system booted fine and everything seems to be working fine (other than accessing unMenu which I mentioned in a separate post), so should I just plug along happily? Thanks!

Thanks WeeboTech, that did the trick. I've never been a Linux wizard.

Now that I finally upgraded from unRAID 4.7 to 5.0.6 I'm getting emails with what I perceive to be an odd "From" source. With 4.7 all of the system emails sent to me by unRAID root came with a FROM address of [email protected]. Now they're coming with FROM showing up as "Console and webGui login account", which when I evaluate in my email does show the [email protected]. Is there a way to change this? I know it's not a big deal, but I liked the previous format and I've been unable to figure out how to change this behavior. Thanks!

So I finally upgraded from 4.7 to 5.0.6 today. Yes I know, wow! My media server was running just fine the past 3+ years but today I decided I wanted to play around with Plex. Anyway I followed the upgrade instructions and everything seems to be working fine as far as accessing the server itself. But after installing the latest unMenu I'm getting some marginal behavior from when I go to http://media-server:8080. I am getting frequent errors stating that the web page isn't available. If I continue to refresh it will finally come up. This is happening when I'm trying to move around the various menus within unMenu itself. Can anyone tell me what I might try to "fix" this? Thanks!

Thanks, that's good to know! -Kevin (also)

That would certainly seem to be the case. Perhaps a better question is do I have anything to be concerned about with respect to having an NFS share source on my unRAID 4.7 server?

So over this past weekend I set about putting my PCH C-200 back in use in our family room. I've been using an HTPC in our pseudo-home theater room for a while so the C-200 was in retirement. Anyway, the HTPC has no problems whatsoever streaming Blu-ray movies (ISOs) from our new unRAID server using the default Samba share for that folder on the server. I sat through Beauty and the Beast with my granddaughters Saturday evening and there were no problems. But when I got the C-200 back online and tried streaming a Blu-ray ISO I was getting horrible stuttering. Remembering a similar problem back when I first started using WHSv1 to stream to the C-200 where I had to use NFS shares on the WHSv1 server, I setup NFS for the Blu-ray-Movies user share on unRAID using *(ro). I updated that share on my C-200 and viola!, it works just fine now streaming a Blu-ray ISO. So my question is, is this behavior to be expected or have others at least seen the same thing?

And not to be too a-retentive, but I have a printout of the unRAID main screen showing all 22 of my drives with serial numbers versus parity, disk#, and cache. I slid it in the outer sleeve of a 3-ring binder that I use for storing unRAID documentation. It came in very handy when I switched motherboards recently.

Updated to reflect level 1 tested on unRAID 4.7 And for the record I have successfully copied 6-7 TB of data over the network from my Windows 7 PC to this unRAID server using the motherboard's built-in Realtek NIC. Server "standby" power (i.e. all drives spun down) is about 63W per my APC UPS. I credit the Supermicro SASLP boards for about half that power. But I can live with that being on 24x7 as it will cost less than $50 per year for standby mode. I prefer that to my old WHSv1 setup where I used LightsOut to put it to sleep.

Updated to reflect level 1 tested on unRAID 4.7 Also I copied about 400GB data to this temporary setup over the network from my Windows 7 PC using the mobo's built-in Realtek NIC.

Thanks for the detailed explanation Joe. That makes sense to me now. Once I'm done restoring all of my old WHSv1 data this will pretty much become a non-issue.

OK so here's what I just did. Mover was in the middle of copying a 37GB ISO from the cache disk to disk12 in my 20-disk array. I disabled spinup groups as suggested. I then did a manual spindown of all disks except parity, disk12 and cache. There was still about 30GB to go on the file after all disks were spun down. So I refreshed the myMain window of unmenu periodically while the file move continued. As soon as mover completed the rsync of the 37GB file to disk12, there was a pause in all activity in the myMain window with respect to disk reads & writes. And then lo and behold as soon as the next file transfer showed up after a page refresh in the "System Log (last 15 lines)" section of the screen there were other drives that had been spun up. After a couple more refreshes all disks were once again spinning. I'm stumped. This does not seem like "normal" behavior to me, but then again I've only been using unRAID for a few weeks now. Any other suggestions as to what I might try? Or is this just the way it is?

*BUMP* So should the mover script cause all disks to spinup when running? I have spinup groups enabled and each drive in my setups has a unique spinup group. Thanks, Kevin

Again my bad - I'm using 4.7. No issues with the NIC on this one either. I'll have to find some extra HDDs to do level 1 on this one, but I will try to do so.

Sorry I just have stated version 4.7. I haven't seen any issues with the NIC after about 10 days. I will definitely pull together the requirements for level 1 certified.