Lantesh

I would love to be able to access an optical drive via my network direct from Unraid just like a share. The reason for this is I no longer own a DVD or Blu-Ray stand alone player. I do have my library ripped to mkv, and use Emby to access the library, but on occasion I'd like to be able to simply play a DVD or Blu-Ray direct from the server over the network, whether on another PC, tablet or Chromecast.

Well I think I have my answer. I can't even complete a short smart test. It fails 10% in to the read. I guess the preclear operation pushed this old drive over the edge. Time to order a replacement.

I started converting my discs from reiserfs to xfs, and decided to preclear a drive after removing from the array. The pre read, and clear went fine. Then during the post read the process crashed. Unfortunately I shut down the server after this happened, and I had not saved the log. I've attached the smart attributes from the drive settings page. There is a current pending sector error. At this point I'm wondering if I should run pre and post read again and see if it finishes correctly, or consider retiring the drive. Any thoughts are appreciated.

Central repository/Wiki: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Wiki That is very unfortunate, and a hard lesson learned. I never work more than an hour without making a backup of the data I’m currently working with. I also save every few minutes to my local copy. Sounds like you’ve got a much better system in place now to prevent future loss. It would have been prudent to ask questions prior to starting such a labor intensive process. That is what these forums are for. I always make inquiries before diving in. Unfortunately that is the nature of a free public forum. There aren’t any paid employees reorganizing it. Every individual here is nothing more than another community member. Be appreciative that we can come together as a community to help each other. This forum may not be organized like a tech manual, but what can you expect for free assistance? You can always reference the Wiki instead if the personal help is not satisfactory, but I find it much better to talk with others. To be honest I think you are expecting a lot for the minimal cost of unRAID. How much of your time would the price of unRAID buy? I would imagine perhaps enough time to write one letter. Can I bill you for my reply here?

Thank you gentleman. I appreciate the feedback. I will leave things be for now.

Assuming one's system is functioning normally is there really any compelling reason to migrate to XFS at the moment? I realize that RFS is no longer being developed, but I was thinking until I'm ready to replace a drive I'm not really feeling any sense of urgency. I currently have 3 2TB data drives, and 2 2TB parity drives. I do not have any free SATA ports on my motherboard, and I don't have an expansion card. So it is not physically possible to connect another drive at present. So I'm thinking until I need more storage, and want to invest in new hardware it seems best to just leave well enough alone. Your thoughts?

I'm a bit late upgrading to v6. I came from 5.0.3, and used a telnet session as described in the first method. Like many others my server did not boot after the upgrade. Following the advice of many others here I downloaded the v6 zip file, pulled my flash drive from the server, plugged it in to my Windows 7 box, copied the syslinux folder over to the flash drive from the zip file, and ran the make_bootable.bat file. I then replaced the flash drive back in the server, and everything worked perfectly from there. Thanks everyone for the feedback in this thread. I would not have figured out what went wrong otherwise.

Great info. Thanks for posting it.

I realize this thread is a couple of years old, but I just found it. Thank you, I just modified my go file, and I love the Mario beeps!