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I can confirm this for 6.1.2 For fun i added a usb DAC i had laying around and it "solves" the issue, no more slow downs. Looks like any usb device will do.

k. I can see that. For me it happens when I switch from Icon / Icon Details over to table mode. What's going on is the Firefox is complaining that http://server_a/webGui/javascript/dynamix.js?v=1438559246:5 is taking a long time to run. That is not part of CA. But, when it does take a while to load, it eventually does, and the spinner in the top right (Searching..., and the popup both disappear) At that point, any scripts which CA is running is over, and the rendering has been passed off to your browser. As far as a bug, you shouldn't be seeing "Searching for [blank]", but the long running script isn't part of CA. What's probably happening is that your browser is choking on trying to render the tables and run that script at the same time. Quick fix, don't hit the button to clear the search term. Thanks for the info

I don't know if this is an intended future or a bug, did i quick search but couldn't find anything useful. After having searched for something within CA and then clearing the search box (pressing the X), CA starts a search for [blank], resulting in it chocking under the load of having to do its magic for every app available (221 at this time). It doesn't last that long, but long enough for Firefox to starts displaying its "script unresponsive" dialog Is this just because of my slow machine? (old N36L)

Thanks for the tip, I had not run across this in my searches! I have tried this with some SCSI drives on our ESX boxes at work, but couldn't get those to work. Evidently this may just be for SATA, so I'll give it a shot at home when I get some time. i couldnt get this to work either. although the raw device worked on windows, it didnt on unRAID. because the raw sata drive gets connected through SCSI, the drives arent detected (but im not a linux expert)

A new Atom board (X7SPE-HF) just popped up on the supermicro site: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/ The only difference that i could find with the X7SPA-HF vs X7SPE-HF is that the new board is +- 2 cm longer. Looks like they moved some stuff from near the memory slots to the bottom. I can only guess, but this might result in a pcb with less layers (cheaper to produce). The boards are both mentioned in the same user manual: http://supermicro.com/manuals/motherboard/ICH9/MNL-1166.pdf

did you set the "halt on error" to none in your bios? else the system will give the error "no video card detected" (which you cant see ) and will never boot i've been running headless for some time now, and can tell you that it doesn't require any alteration to your unraid hf

i bought a gigabyte p35-ds3r a few weeks ago, works perfect with unraid of all the current chipsets, the p35 is the second best in low energie consumption, so its a good choice (the best chipset only has 4 sata ports, so not really an option) it has 8 sata ports on the pci-e bus, lan also on the pci-e bus, 8 usb 2.0, 3 pci-e 1x, 3 pci, 1 pci-e 16x i get about 52 mb/s, with a 5 disk array, during parity check it doesnt have onboard video, but i run it headless anyway this way it saves even more energy compared to onboard video hf

I was afraid this was going to be an issue. How did you configure the drive in vmware? in vmware the only way you can mount physical drive directly is true its ide but the drives still show up as ide0:1-VMware0000blabla, so its not truely physical scsi drive will not work, because unraid doesnt see them i remember someone on the forum tried to compile the scsi driver into unraid but didnt have that much success

here is a little sumup of the stuff that i tested and found out. ws2k8: no usb support, so its impossible to load your unraid configfile ea no pro license -> stuck at 3 drives max microsoft was forced to remove some features from ws2k8 to make the releasedate, so i have no doubt that this will be incorperated some day for now ist a "no go" vmware workstation: i am able to get it running, with pro license i mounted 4 physical ide drives, but im unable to spindown the drives the drives showup as VMWAREvirt00000, not as drive serial, so there is some virtualising going on i guess this also prohibbits me from spinning down the drives in the end not really an option since only 4 drives will be supported and they cant be spundown vmware server: prolly the same limitations as above, but this version cant even mount physical drives xen: this is a real b*tch to setup this is prolly because im not that familiar with linux you need to recompile the kernel with xen and make sure it has intel VT-d support (or the AMD version) and pciback since this isnt 100% stable it will give some compile errors (at least it did with me) in the end i gave up and just installed ubuntu and installed xen from its repository this setup has intel VT-d, but im unsure if it has pciback setup the right way i created some virtual machines, which worked quite well (same as vmware) got unraid to boot, but just as ws2k8, im unable to mount the usb properly, so no license -> 3 drives max it boots directly from the usb, but is virtualised some way, so the UUID is -2 next up was pciback, this is a feature that allows to domU (virtual machine) direct acces to physical hardware so why not give unraid control over a usb port and my sata controller so i tried to pciback an usb controllers this is were it all ended, i couldnt get pciback to work at all i think this is because in my setup it isnt properly installed, so the only way is to compile the correct kernel unraid with virtualisation installed: vmware server or xen, it wouldnt really matter the only true missing peace for this to work is multicore support in unraid you would need to setup a swapdisk, and a place to store your vm setting/disks vmware server2 would truely be nice, since it as a nice http interface to setup vm's so no telnet of vnc would be required, just a browser and your password this are the options i explored, and i found out that they all have problems some make it impossible to run unraid on them, others we can work with please forgive my language, im not native english Xan

it seams that hyper-v doesnt support usb, so you cannot mount your unraid flash to a vm this means that unraid will never find your license, so your stuck with 4 drives max i have no idea how the circumvent this problem i'm currently looking into xen opensource with its pciback capability, but im having trouble installing it

found this, these guys confirmed it working on linux unfortunately the actual saving isnt that much

just a heads up, the new E8200 series only needs 2watt while idle combine that with the, power efficient, gigabyte EP35 series and you'll prolly get around 30 watt idle

Great work guys, cant wait for a more easy install method (im not that crafty with linux )

i can tell you from personal experiance that ZFS+raidZ can also get corrupt, so it has the same problem as RAID since your most definately going to setup a fileserver, the most easy thing for you to do is probably to test it for yourself (there is a free version of unraid) about the to small parity drive thingie: just replace the parity drive with your new/larger drive, rebuild parity and the add your old parity drive as strorage to your server

well i hope your rdy 710 beta4 http://www.linuxmce.org/news.php?id=19#comments

ive been trying to add a user share manually i added a harddrive that i keep outside the array for swap and for dl/par/rar from my usenet account (SABnzbd on unraid) i just manually added the share to the /etc/samba/smb.shares file it works perfectly, but it doenst save it to my flash (as expected) so every reboot i need to add it again is it possible to manually add or alter a user share from the go script? ty

i solved this by plugging my unraid usb stick in the server and mounting it in the virtual enviroment created an image (using winimage) of my usb stick and mounted it as a scsi drive this way unraid is booted of the scsi drive, but searches for an usb device named UNRAID for the network.cfg (and your license) and finds it on your original usb stick. i found that there are 2 usefull ways too mount drives: 1) 4 physical IDE drives | downside is, vmware cant mount more then 4 ide drives (or can it do more?) aka your stuck with 3 data drives and 1 parity per virtual server 2) unlimited scsi drives | unfortunally unraid doesnt find the scsi drives (it didnt in version 3.0, havent tested 4.0) my question are there ways to mount more ide drives? or get scsi support somehow?

1. 'Windows' only thing: the video i've seen talks about streaming to osX, linux, and all others (like samba) 2. precanned: there will be 2 versions, one with HP hardware (preinstalled) and one pure software version. i myself am interrested in how it will provide data protection, they talk about a "sort of Raid, but its different" from what i can tell it also doesn't strip the data (like unraid), which is nice, but will it be based on parity or just double data?

Hope this is an easy one I've got a 150 gig scsi drive laying around, and i tried connecting it to my unraid system, but unraid doesnt sense/find the drive at all. Do i need to install some kind of driver first?

well, ever since im suspecting the hdparm command (for 1 hour now ), i have been wonder if there is something wrong with the drives so i did a little test. i have been disconnecting the drives from the motherboard and testing them 1 by 1 with the hdparm -y /dev/sdb command well, guess what they all work fine, no freezing. so the drives and sata cables are fine then i did the test with 2 drives connected and shutting them down 1 by 1. same result, all works fine (yey ) next, 3 drives, also fine (omg its a miracle) but when i test it with all 4 drives, the system freezes when i shutdown the last drive. so it has someting to do with the 4th drive i think ill be getting a 4 port controller card tomorrow and test the system with 3 drives on the motherboard and 1 on the controller

havent thought of that yet just tested it, and as soon as i give the command to the last drive to spindown (doesnt matter which drive is last up) the system imidiately goes into suspent (or something like it) and is unreachable. when i remove all drive sata cables from the motherboard and then boot, the system runs perfectly (w/o any drives, but no freezing) could it be that the hdparm command somehow generates an error? maybe a wrong setting for my system

well tried it numerous times, still no luck :'( :'( :'( im just curious, could this be to a bug in the motherboard bios (there is a apple macbook bug like this) or is it simthing new in unraid? any options left, short of changing the board?

uploaded the manual, since the aopen site isnt the easiest to reach http://members.chello.nl/whoek10/i915gahfs-ol-e.pdf ok, i did what u asked and here is the result: booted stopped parity set spindown to 2 hours cleared statistics Tower login: root Linux 2.4.33. root@Tower:~# tail -f /var/log/syslog Oct 05 10:07:24 Tower emhttp[1052]: user share: Movies Oct 05 10:07:24 Tower emhttp[1052]: user share: Series Oct 05 10:07:24 Tower emhttp[1052]: shcmd (23): /usr/sbin/nmbd -D Oct 05 10:07:24 Tower emhttp[1052]: shcmd (24): /usr/sbin/smbd -D Oct 05 10:07:47 Tower emhttp[916]: driver cmd: nocheck Oct 05 10:07:47 Tower kernel: mdcmd (20): nocheck Oct 05 10:07:47 Tower kernel: md: md_do_sync() got signal ... exiting Oct 05 10:07:47 Tower kernel: md: sync done. time=76sec rate=11125K/sec Oct 05 10:07:47 Tower kernel: md: writing superblock to /boot/config/super.dat Oct 05 10:07:47 Tower kernel: md: recovery thread sync completion status: -4 Oct 05 10:09:20 Tower emhttp[916]: driver cmd: clear Oct 05 10:09:20 Tower kernel: mdcmd (26): clear Oct 05 12:09:39 Tower emhttp[972]: shcmd (25): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdb >/de v/null Oct 05 12:09:39 Tower emhttp[972]: shcmd (26): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sde >/de v/null Oct 05 12:09:39 Tower emhttp[972]: shcmd (27): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdc >/de v/null Oct 05 12:09:40 Tower emhttp[972]: shcmd (28): /usr/sbin/hdparm -y /dev/sdd >/de v/null after the 2 hours, the drives spindown (like the concole says) and directly there after the system is unreachable :'(

well, i set the spindown timer to 1 hour. when that 1 hour passes, the drives spindown at the same time the drives are spinning down, i see the power being removed from the systems described above and seconds there after the system is totally unreachable i am not giving any commands of any sort, its doing it on its own. i have to take the power off the system completly to restart it. the power button and reset button do nothing at all, at that time (but they both work when the system is booting/running) what does work is holding the powerbutton for more then 5 secs, then the system is off (not that i can see any visual changes, but then i can start the system again) it surly doesnt shutdown nicely, cos when it's restarted, it does a parity check, or when i do it to much a parity sync.