jtech007

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  1. On 3/25/2023 at 5:32 PM, jtech007 said:

    I recently had a flash drive scare where I thought my original drive was finally going to die on me. I think it's over 10 years old at the point (4Gb HP). Watched Spaceinvader1's video and found the suggested Kingston and Samsung on Amazon, only to come here after I ordered and received those to see that they are probably counterfeit drives. So, I will be returning both per the suggestions of others. That led me on a search to find a backup for my original drive and I found some 16gb HP drives on sale at Office Depot/Max.  The have a unique GUID and work with Unraid though I had to do a manual install. Also, the website and packaging says it's a 16gb drive, but it shows up in windows as 28.8. They are USB 2.0 drives which I know is prefered. https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/5892874/HP-v150w-USB-20-Flash-Drive/

     

    I am going to boot up one on my test server and see how long it lasts. 

     

    A follow up to my original post. I have used this HP drive for almost a year now with zero issues. I rebooted about 5 days ago to fix a drive issue with no hang ups. Hopefully it will last as long as the last HP one I had before. The still sell them at Office Depot for under $10.00

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  2. 14 hours ago, Lolight said:

    That's probably the safest way to get a legit drive.

     

    I wonder if you could check for its "Vendor ID" and "Demanded Current" number, both displayed in the Summary section, by running this little app - https://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtreeview_e.html

     

    @LolightHere you go:

     

    ========================== Summary =========================

    Vendor ID : 0x03F0 (HP Inc.)

    Product ID : 0x2D40

    USB Version : 2.0

    Port maximum Speed : High-Speed Device

    maximum Speed : High-Speed Device

    Connection Speed : High-Speed

    Self powered : no

    Demanded Current : 300 mA

    Used Endpoints : 3

     

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  3. I recently had a flash drive scare where I thought my original drive was finally going to die on me. I think it's over 10 years old at the point (4Gb HP). Watched Spaceinvader1's video and found the suggested Kingston and Samsung on Amazon, only to come here after I ordered and received those to see that they are probably counterfeit drives. So, I will be returning both per the suggestions of others. That led me on a search to find a backup for my original drive and I found some 16gb HP drives on sale at Office Depot/Max.  The have a unique GUID and work with Unraid though I had to do a manual install. Also, the website and packaging says it's a 16gb drive, but it shows up in windows as 28.8. They are USB 2.0 drives which I know is prefered. https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/5892874/HP-v150w-USB-20-Flash-Drive/

     

    I am going to boot up one on my test server and see how long it lasts. 

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  4. Did some additional searching and reading on the cannot connect to the hypervisor. Turns out the VM backup plugin I was testing is not supported anymore and when I removed that .plg from the plugins folder that went away. Still cannot login to the GUI, even in safe mode which is weird as I do not have automatic startup enabled so docker and the VM's won't start at boot. Assuming it must be another plugin now?

     

    I did wipe my thumb drive and put a fresh install on that. Boots up quickly and can login to the GUI so I know it's not the MB, processor or video card. I did not have drives connected on the fresh install, but that shouldn't matter.

     

    Any more suggestions on what to remove from my startup to get back into the GUI would be appreciated! 

  5. 1 hour ago, mathomas3 said:

    FYI... there are many people here that would like to help... but given the old version of unraid that you are currently using... I suggest making a backup of your current setup and update the version that you have to current and try booting again...

     

    using a current version helps troubleshooting these things

     

     

    It's still 6.10 so it's not that old. I typically wait until the bugs are sorted out of the newer versions and see a lot of "upgraded, no issue replies in the threads". Seems like 6.11 is mature now and my current version worked fine this AM until I added some drives which shouldn't break anything. But I would need to get into the GUI to upgrade to 6.11 right?

     

    I am reverting back to my prior drive config to see if that gets me back in to the GUI to make changes and sort it out. I also have done some additional searching and believe that my Zigbee and Zwave sticks that attach themselves at VM startup via the USB plugin might be part of the issue. Still need to see if that is the case. 

  6. 1 hour ago, KombatJam said:

    What type of HBA are you using? Cheaper amazon or a server grade HBA? Or are you running an LSI card in IT mode?

     

    Cheaper hba cards can have issues when you load them up with drives.

     

    I tried a cheap 100$ HBA and it threw a ton of errors or dropped disks.

     

    Switched to a 40$ LSI card on eBay and I haven't had any issues since.

     

    LSI in IT mode. I have had zero issues with them and years ago had two of them fully populated. With the larger drive sizes now I am down to 11ish drives. 

  7. Added a few new drives to the server today to migrate my cache drive over to them as several drives in the current pool have errors. To the best of my memory here is what I changed:

     

    Original setup was all drives connected via HBA's (two of them). I moved all the spinners to the onboard SATA connections on the motherboard and moved the single connector on the 2nd HBA to the 1st HBA as the goal was to remove the 2nd one. Connected the four new SAS ssd's on on the 1st HBA for a total of 8 total drives on the one HBA (the max). 

     

    Booted the system and cannot access the GUI, even in safe mode. 

     

    Things I have tried: Removed the new drives, but did not move the spinners back to the HBA card. 

     

    Ran check disk on the usb thumb drive. No errors. Trying to avoid "putting it back" as I need to migrate to the new drives for cache.

     

    Logs attached. Photo attached of the errors when it's done booting.

    tower-diagnostics-20230314-1358.zip

    20230314_150509.jpg

  8. 6 hours ago, Naldinho said:

    .4Lots of people in this topic purchased the SC2600 from Natex -- have you been able to upgrade unRaid?

    I'm stuck on 6.2.4 -- have tried upgrading to 6.3 several times and always get a kernel panic error and then I have to roll-back to 6.2.4.

    Am I alone on this or have others had this issue? If yes how did solve it?

     

    5 hours ago, Bungy said:

     

    I have that same board and have not had those issues. Maybe try to backup your flash drive and then update with a clean flash drive?

     

    I had this same issue. Bungy is correct, trying a new flash drive (different brand) should get rid of the kernel panic and allow you to update.

  9. On 6/2/2017 at 2:42 PM, ashman70 said:

    You may want to tell us where you are located for shipping purposes and what forms of payment you take?

     

    Added items to OP...

  10. 1: 5x3 IcyDock HDD Cage... Used, working condition and the fan does work. $55 (OBO) shipped Sold.

     

    2: HP Procurve 2810-24G (J9021A) Switch - Used, comes with power cable, rack ears and console cable. $50 (OBO) + actual shipping.    Sold on eBay.

     

    3: PowerDsine 7012G POE Midspan - Used 12 port POE Midspan. Has rack ears and a power cable. $50 (OBO) + actual shipping.

     

    Open to offers and maybe some trades though I don't know what those would be.

     

    Paypal, Bitcoin or Amazon Gift cards - Located in Vancouver, WA

     

    Heat: https://www.heatware.com/u/21594/to

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  11. I do have a keyboard/mouse and monitor plugged into it - I had to switch the monitor back to the CPU instead of the Graphics card so I could see what it was booting to. How do I go about "ping-ing" the IP address from another computer?

     

    If you know the IP address of you unRAID box you can type that into Chrome, Firefox or IE and see if it connects. Sometimes windows forgets the name of the server on the network (IE:Tower) and will not let you access the GUI that way. If you can see it via SSH, which I believe you said that you can then it it working and probably a windows issue.

     

    Which version of unRAID are you running? Some of the newer versions allow for GUI booting so you can control the box directly and not from another computer. You could use the GUI mode to see what is going on with the VM and maybe undo anything that is causing connectivity issues.

  12. It shouldn't have been taken from me in the first place. I never gave it permission to do this.

     

    unRAID left a bad first impression on me, that's for sure. Not only because of this, also because of the other things I posted.

     

    Docker is not enabled with a fresh install. You have to turn it on. Quit trolling.

     

    He might be referring to the isos share that does get created automagically on a fresh install. I don't use docker or VM's so I just delete the share. But he has a point, it should be up to the user to create it. It puts mine on the parity protected array. Not a huge deal but an annoyance for anyone who doesn't intend to use it. So I can see where he's coming from.

     

     

    Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

     

    I stand corrected. I did not realize that it did this with the newer versions by default. My Apologies! :)

  13. I have sent at least 6 emails over the past few months asking for help to transfer my license to a new USB drive, as my daughter bumped into mine on the front of my server and ripped it apart.  Now I have over 30TB of photos, home videos, and other items that I can no longer get to without unraid software/license to boot the server -- so I'm desperate to get back up and running...

     

    Who can assist with this?  Is there a better address to send this request than using the "LimeTech Administrator" account's email address?

     

    Thanks!

     

    If by chance you have a backup of your USB drive you can take your .key file from the config folder and put it on a new USB drive and transfer it online. https://lime-technology.com/replace-key/