SmurfKiller

Sorry, brain stopped working. 8 hot-swap drives, 2 internal. haha, But i was looking at that, I guess i was just looking for some clarification on how that 12 drive limit worked, when i select the disks for the array, the first 2 slots are reserved for parity drives, if i only use 1 parity drive do i loose the other one? so it is a 12 drive limit, but only 10 are usable for actual storage? Actually, did the drive limit increase recently? wasn't it 8 before?

I have a Dell R510 with 8 external hot-swap drives, and 2 internal drives. I want to use it in a 1 x parity, 7 storage disks, 2 x cache drives... So am i right to assume that the Tier 2 Plus licence will do the trick? Its just that, while i am guessing that this calculator is unofficial (http://unraid.category5.tv/) its telling me that i need a pro licence..

Thanks, that with the User Scripts plugin will do the job

The User Script plugin will work to run the script, but i still need to get ipmitool installed. I know i could check if it is installed and install it from within the script, but that just seems too messy. there has to be a better way. the unraid wiki seems to link to that post from 2007. which i am happy to use, but i just want to know if it is still the correct way to get a package to persist after a reboot.

I tried to put the the txz file in /boot/extra (which i had to create) the file persisted after a reboot but it did not reinstall it. Am i correct to assume that it should be a slackware package file? Regarding the existing IPMI Plugin, it seems its fan control features are just for asrock & supermirco motherboards. i have a dell r510. EDIT: I found this really old post from 2007. is this still the method to add packages?

I'll look into the user scripts plugin. I'm using ipmitool to adjust the fan speeds, am i correct to assume that it will also be lost on reboot. Is there a way to install a package that will persist after boot? Or, Is creating my own plugin the only real option?

I have a custom script that i want to run to control the fans on my unraid host. I created my script, placed it in /root, added an entry to crontab. it worked perfectly until i rebooted. where the script and crontab entry disappeared. Any advice? or tips? is there some unraid way to do this? learning how to create a plugin/create one seems overkill for this..