sam_roberts30

So I use windows explorer, grab and drag all the contents of disk 3 and drop it onto disk 4?

Is it possible to move a whole share to a different drive in the array?I have a video clips share on drive 3 and I want to move it to drive 4. Is it just a case of changing the share's include/exclude drive settings and letting unraid take care of the rest?

would look a bit odd in beige. So i'm either going to spray the case white with black detailing then just using normal black hot swaps for a modern look or use internal drive bays and manufacture some bay fan covers. and spray them white. Has anyone done this before?

mmm, yeah i saw those. or ideas how i can achieve the white look on the drives.

i've just taken delivery of my new Lian Li PC343B case. Now the fun really starts. I am planning on stripping it and getting it powder coated white. The question is does anybody know where I can get 5 in 3 hotswap driver cages in white from? I have googledit but they only seem to come in black, blue or red.

does it have any problems coming out of s3?

sweet, cheers buddy. will give it a whirl this afternoon.

Sorry for the late reply, been away for a few days over xmas. I have downloaded the script, thanks by the way...i'd have had no chance of working all that out. Where would i edit the script to meet my needs. Timers, which HDD's to check, which IP's to ping etc? Do i just edit the configuration area? or do is that just an indicator of where to edit in the implementation stuff?

Does [ANYBODY/u] have a sleep script that checks to make sure the drives are spun down AND pings IP adresses to make sure there are no clients running? I have been trying to work it out myself, based on the sleep script in the wiki, but I have absalutely no idea what I am doing.

I have my server back up and running and I want to make a few changes to fine tweak it to get it running perfectly for me. I came across a problem I didn't foresee. I have decided to put all my DVD rips on the Unraid and the BD rips locally on my media players internal 3TB HDD. I have got all the timers in the s3.sh and spin down timers set exactly how I want them but this causes a problem if I want to watch a DVD rip after a BD rip (E.G. Iron Man BD followed by Iron Man 2 DVD) because by the time the BD has finished the timers have timed out and the Unraid has gone to sleep. Which means I have to either boot the computer to send a WOL packet, reboot the media player (which sends a WOL on startup) or go right down to the basement to press the power button. I have done some searches and found that some people have added a "ping IP address" line to the s3.sh so their Unraid will only sleep if all the disks have spun down AND the client is not ping-able. The problem is no body has posted the code or where to put the code in the script. My question is what do I have to do to get this to work with my sleep script? a link to a page would be helpful or an example of a working code, I have been searching all day and read through hundreds of posts and am still non the wiser. Below is the script I have running at the moment. #!/bin/bash drives="/dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf /dev/sdg/dev/sdh /dev/hdb" timeout=60 count=60 while [ 1 ] do hdparm -C $drives | grep -q active if [ $? -eq 1 ] then count=$[$count-1] else count=$timeout fi if [ $count -le 0 ] then # Do pre-sleep activities sleep 5 # Go to sleep echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep # Do post-sleep activities sleep 5 count=$timeout fi # Wait a minute echo COUNT $count sleep 60 done On a side note, do all the drives have to spin up when the server comes out of s3?

Basically I am taking the Unraid offline for a while and using my drives for something else. How do I delete the drives from unraid completely? I don't care about losing the data on the drives. I want to basically put the Unraid back to how it was when I first booted it so when I get some more drives I can start building a new server. Do I just reinstall Unraid on the usb stick?

I have to say i like the yeongyang case. I think i am going to see if i can track one down. Thanks buddy.

I thought about building a custom chassis but I figure that after buying the materials, getting it all powder coated, cage drives and my time it would work out cheaper to just buy a case. The internal dimensions of the cabinet are 500x400x500 (wxhxd measurements in mm). The r3 is about 50mm too tall.

I have built my server using a Fractal R3 case. Beautiful case, well built and all that jazz but I have just had a bespoke A/V cabinet made and I messed up with the measurements and now the Fractal doesn't fit in just right. Has anybody ever seen/can recommend a cube chassis with 6-10 3.5" bays? I quite like the fractal array but it doesn't support micro atx boards (I have an Asus m4a78lt-m and would like to reuse it). The case is going to go inside a closed cabinet so appearance won't be too much of an issue.

I finished my first server this weekend. I have 3x 1.5TB drives running 4 user shares and i couldn't be happier with it. I have a couple of questions if you don't mind pointing me in the right direction? Firstly I have got s3 sleep and have managed to get it to wake when my media server boots using a WOL packet. The problem is its a long winded affair to put it back to sleep when my media server shuts down (I have to boot my laptop up, telnet in, send the sleep command shut laptop down...). Is there any way i can get the server to go into s3 sleep after say an hour of the drives spinning down and/or the media server is no longer active? How would i set the server up to do a weekly/fortnightly or monthly parity sync in the middle of the night? I am also having trouble accessing the \\tower in the web browser. I have no problem accessing the ip address but I just cant get \\tower to work. I have tried to search for answers for these questions but all the answers i get back are totally not relevant. Any help would be massively appreciated. Thanks Sam

just out of interest, how long does it take for your disks to spin up?

Cheers fella. Back in now. was pressing all sorts of buttons.

I'm preclearing 3 new drives through screen. I can't reattach to the screen. I logged as root, typed "screen -r" and instead of getting the preclear pages i get a message that says... "There are several suitable screens on: 29831.pts-0.Tower 27862.pts-0.Tower 27326.pts-0.Tower Type "screen [-d] -r [pid.]tty.host" to resume one of them" What the hell has happened? and how do i get back in to check the progress of the preclears?

Solved! for some reason the airport would acknowledge the tower. Either with a static ip or dhcp. The light on both the airport and the NIC were lit. The airport had hung, not allowing any new ip addresses to be allocated. to sum up a factory reset of the airport and i now how access to the web gui. Thanks for all your help.

The tower is plugged directly in to our airport extreme WITH dhcp enabled. I checked in the airport utility and it isn't showing up there either. Could the NIC be dead?

here is the tutorial http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial I logged in as root, the typed in the "ifconfig eth0" i got the following eth0 link encap: ethernet HWaddr f4:6d:04:02:51:37 broadcast multicast mtu:1500 metric:1 rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overuns:0 frame:0 txpackets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overuns:0 carrier:0 collision:0 txqueuelen:1000 rx bytes:0 ( b) tx bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interupt:26 Base address:0x2600 Then the prompt again... I don't get what i need to do to get the darn thing get an ip address.

Hi, I have finally got my unraid built with 3xx 1.5tb on a free licence. Problem is i can't do anything with it. The mobo (asus m4a78lt-m) NIC doesn't seem to work. I followed the configuration tutorial and got to the part where I had to type "ifconfig eth0" and where I was expecting to get an IP address, I simply didn't. Am i missing something?

Cheers, my weekend's reading sorted. I'll have a good look around. I've never had to play around with storage in the past. My last install was a Kaleidascape system which has zero user adjustments. Sold the cinema room with the house and couldn't justify spending that amount on a media player/storage solution. Thus I found Unraid and the possibilities are intriguing to say the least. I'm all for bumbling through and finding out what is what but I honestly have no idea where to start. To me it just looks like a bunch of random words stuck together. I will learn though! after all we all have to learn somewhere. right?

Is there a place I can read up and learn how to write scripts, the language used etc for Unraid? I'm new to Unraid and I really want to learn how to get the most out of it. I really don't want to be one of those people who just asks questions and milks the forum without doing any of the leg work (as a member of other forums in the A/V arena I know how annoying it is). I tried reading posts but they just don't make any sense to me, the acronyms don't seem to have any logic to them. I think an underpinning knowledge would make it so much easier to understand.

Thanks. I don't know java but I'll have a good go, got to learn sometime. Right? It's not for xmbc.