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New expander should be in on Monday. I've been testing things out and it seems that Seagate drives are working fine, but HP branded Seagate drives seem to periodically require me to (after bootup) pull the drive and re-insert it before they initialize. I may also try this with the WD Red drives I have once I get some to test with.

I'm leaning towards a problem with the expander. I've tried 2 HP expanders (468405-001 and 468405-002). Do you know of any expanders that do not have this incompatibility?

My Norco RPC-4220 has a molex-driven backplane...so I decided to throw it in the case and see if that took care of things. Unfortunately no drives are being detected... So I switched the WD drives to being ran off of the LSI HBA, and then I have my remaining slots being ran from the expander. I can hot plug in Seagate 2TB and 10TB drives, and they get recognized immediately within unRAID and show up in the Unassigned Devices immediate.

Upon a restart, the disks now all show as missing

Not sure if I still have any molex to SATA power adapters around, but do you think it might be related the WD drives and the issue with 3.3v? ( )

Oh now I'm really confused. I just booted after switching the PCIe slot to run at Gen3 mode, and 2 of the 4 drives are showing up...

These are WD Red Plus 4TB drives that work fine when connected to the LSI card. I have some other seagate 2TB drives that I’ll check. I’ll also try swapping out the 8087 to 8087 cable that connects the HBA to the expander if you think that’s a possibility???

LSI 9207-8i using 8087 to breakout SATA cables works fine. When running it through the expander unRAID reports that the disks are missing. However, my BIOS can see the drives connected through the PCIe slot that the expander is connected to. This same expander worked fine on a Windows Server 2022 box I just decommissioned when connected to an LSI 9750-4i card I was running. I just picked up the 9207-8i card, and it is supposedly running in IT mode. When I look in the BIOS it shows the card as "LSI SAS2 MPT Controller SAS2308" with Version 7.27.04.00 Physical Disk Count: 4 Firmware Type: IT Firmware Version: 20.0.7.0 So it appears that the LSI card is seeing the disks on the expander... what am I missing? legion-diagnostics-20211215-0604.zip

Thanks Like I said... Newbie, lol. Have a good one!

6.10.0 rc2, running Win10 using OVMF. Make sure you have the latest VertIO drivers downloaded - it comes with a "guest tools" application. Run it, and it will take care of the rest

I ended up setting the unRAID settings to "Enable SSL/TLS" to Yes, and leaving the HTTP port at 80, and the HTTPS port at 443, then forwarding both from my router to my unRAID box, and now it works fine. Evidently the LE script isn't checking against the ports specified for the unRAID box?

6.10.0 rc2. I'm running a UDM Pro for my router, with DNS set to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 in the UDM Pro. I have 11443 set as my HTTPS port, Use SSL/TLS set to Yes, both 11443 and 443 forwarded to 11443 on my unRAID box. I even tried setting the DNS on unRAID to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, but still nothing. There is no error displayed in the UI, but just "Error: Server was unable to provision SSL certificate" in logs. Thanks in advance! ## Edit ## If this needs to be moved to another subcategory, feel free to do so. legion-diagnostics-20211212-0641.zip

Got it sorted, free to mark as solved Thanks for the help, learning slowly but surely...

Gotcha, thanks for the pointers! I'm just a bit confused on why mounting the share with cache set to prefer would only allow me to see the 500gb cache pool, rather than the 12TB array...?? I definitely want to have the cache set to prefer in the end, but for now I'm just dumping a ton of data across from my old server, so I know I'll be constantly overflowing the cache...

I think I figured it out... by switching to the "Yes" setting for Use cache pool, it now sees the full array. However, if anyone has thoughts on a better way to do this, I'm all ears.

I apologize in advance if this has been answered ad naseaum and I'm just not finding the answer... here's my setup: 4x 4TB drives with 1 Parity 2 Cache pools with a 500GB NVMe in each (cache_primary and cache_secondary) I have a Media share set to Use cache pool: Prefer Select cache pool: Cache_secondary When I mount the share \\tower\Media to a drive letter in my Windows PC it shows up as only 500GB...?? Shouldn't it show the ~11.9GB from the array? If I fill up the cache pool it's using, will Mover push the older files to the array and free up the space on the cache pool so that I can keep copying files? Thanks in advance.

Evidently I just needed to reboot. I now see /dev/dri, and the corresponding 3 subdirectories. When I add it as a Device to the Plex container I now have the option to enable HW acceleration/encoding. When viewing content from my Plex container, I can see in Plex Dashboard that it's now hardware transcoding. Damn...thing is smooth as silk compared to my old Windows server

Ok, so running everything on a test bench. The 2.5Gb onboard NIC is working fine on 6.10.0 rc2. The only hiccup I'm having is with the iGPU. I think I've done a decent job at following the Rocket Lake iGPU thread... here's what I've done so far: Blacklisted the i915 in /boot/config/modprobe.d/i915.conf (echo "blacklist i915" > /boot/config/modprobe.d/i915.conf) Installed Intel GPU Top app Added "i915.force_probe=4680" to /boot/config/go When I check for /dev/dri, the directory does not exist. My parity is in the process of rebuilding/syncing, so I haven't tried rebooting yet since trying the above steps. If I try to run intel_gpu_top it returns: "No device filter specified and no discrete/integrated i915 devices found" What did I miss? What did I screw up?

Sounds hopeful at least... the Z690-P D4 runs Realtek 2.5Gb. Is there any kernel support (ATM or upcoming with an ETA) for the E/P core architecture?

My current server running Plex and filestorage/IIS functions is a 9 year old hand-built rig running a Xeon E3-1245v3, 32GB RAM (16GB reserved for a RAM Disk used for Plex Transcoding space), 2x 120GB SSD in RAID0 for OS, 9x 2TB Seagate ST2000DM001 drives in RAID50 (3 parity disks) as a Media drive, and a secondary 4x2TB RAID10 array for user files and applications/backups, and a single 10TB IronWolf Pro drive for making a backup of my Plex library and appdata. Besides Plex, I also have a Trakt.TV VIP account setup in Plex webhooks, and I have PlexTraktSync running on my current Windows box to update Trakt with everything that has been played already. I finally got around to getting all the hardware I needed, and I had originally planned on running everything in Windows again, but after finding out about unRAID and checking out how active this forum is in helping/etc, then I thought I might give unRAID a try. Here's what I'm working with: Intel i5-12600k Asus Z690-P D4 64GB RAM SanDisk 128GB Cruzer USB 2.0 Flash Drive with an internal USB 2.0 header to USB female port adapter 500GB NVME 6x 4TB WD Red drives for Media 2x 2TB Seagate drives for apps/backups/personal user files Intel Pro/1000 PT quad NIC The below is based off of: My understanding of the overall Alder Lake situation is that the iGPU will work fine with modprobe i915 in my go file, and that the 2.5Gb ethernet jack will not work until unRAID switches to kernel 5.15+, hence the Intel quad port NIC. I'm hoping to get NIC bonding running, and I'm pretty sure my Unifi 24-port POE switch can handle it (it works fine right now with my Windows box and dual on-board NICs), so my biggest first hurdle will be to see if my Asus Z690 can switch down to PCIe 1.0 and run the card so it can get recognized. That being said, there are a ton of unRAID Plex setups out there, and almost just as many "guides". I will probably have at most 4 transcoding streams, and maybe 2 or 3 direct play streams running at any time, so I know this is probably all overkill, but I want it to be as future-proof as possible... so... any suggestions for exactly how I should set up my unRAID members / Plex docker? I'm planning on running LSIO Plex Pass, but certainly not set on anything. The beauty of all this is that I can test all of this out while my current system is still running, I just want to get it buttoned down before I make the swap. Thanks again for your assistance/advice!