February 16, 200818 yr Hi I have a 12 bay unRAID system that I bought preconfigured 2 years ago (March 06) and have mostly liked it but have experienced the problems where I would occasionally lose the config from the flash drive and it would not boot. I have been able to fix this on the occasions it has happened but now, what I am wondering is, is it possible to upgrade my software and to which version can I go with my hardware. Also, as I have already paid for a licence key, do I use the paid for version or the the free one? Is there a walkthrough on how to install and set up the new firmware too? Thanks
February 16, 200818 yr No charge. All versions should work with your hardware. Walkthrough is in the readme that comes with the software. Bill
February 18, 200818 yr Author No charge. All versions should work with your hardware. Walkthrough is in the readme that comes with the software. Bill Bill, thanks for that but don't I have to get a new key or something?
February 18, 200818 yr You will probably want to purchase two new USB flash drives locally, load them with the 4.2.1 version, boot them each in turn in your server, navigate to the "Devices" page and write down their respective serial numbers. Don't bother setting up the devices yet. If anything goes wrong and you can't get the new flash drive to boot, you can boot off your original drive until you can get advice on how to proceed. (That is why you don't really want to use the same flash drive as you have now...) Then, send the serial numbers to Tom at lime-technology via email. He will send back two "Pro-key" files. One for each of your new flash drives. (He has offered two free pro-keys to us early adopters who were upgrading. The format of the key-files has changed from your old drive. You will need the new key file to use the new flash drives with more than 3 disks attached.) Then, put the key files he sends you in their respective flash drives. Write down the model/serial numbers of your existing drives and record their position in your existing array, shut it down, remove your old flash drive, insert the new. At that point you can boot up one of new USB drives, assign the drives, and be up and running. Joe L.
February 19, 200818 yr Author Any USB drive will do or is it better to buy a particular brand? What size, I take it 1GB will be big enough. Oh and thanks for your help
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