January 19, 201214 yr I am going to apologize in advance if this is unclear. You'll have to excuse my limited knowledge. Some of the things I describe below may be stupid. Fair warning. I installed unRaid and everything was working fine with 4.7. Then I decided to upgrade to 5.0beta14 and that worked without a hitch. I upgraded motherboards and installed an Intel NIC, unRaid still worked without a hitch. Then I tried to move my server into a different room (still connected to same router and same configuration when it was working) and it no longer was recognized by my computer. I am confused now because I don't know what possibly could have changed. Thinking it was 5.0beta14 that caused the problem I downgraded back to 4.7. unRaid still would not show up. I tried too log in to my tower and it asked for a password. I don't recall setting a password so I shutdown unraid and deleted the password file from the config folder on my flash drive. I booted unRaid and now it shows up on my network and I could connect to it but none of my drives would show up. I went the webUI and it said my hard drives were in an invalid configuration (I haven't changed the drives at all). I went to the devices folder and they were all unassigned. So I reassigned them in the proper order and still invalid configuration. I then noticed there are extra config files in the 5.0beta14 than in the 4.7 release. So i decided that maybe I needed to go re-upgrade to the 5.0beta14 release. Now unRaid no longer shows up in my networks. If anyone has any suggestions please let me know. I have tried searching and on the posts I have seen invalid configuration sometimes means a drive failure. All my drives seem to be okay, at least that I can tell. They don't make scary noises and I haven't dropped them. syslog.zip
January 19, 201214 yr Make sure that nothing inside the case came loose when it was moved, e.g., cables, cards, etc.
January 19, 201214 yr Prepare a new flash (or backup the current one and reformat). Try booting with a clean install.
January 19, 201214 yr Author Will that cause me to lose the files I have on my hard drives (do I have to clear and reformat my hard drives) or will unRaid recognize the drives?
January 19, 201214 yr The data drives will not be effected. The shares will appear with default configurations.
January 19, 201214 yr Author When I reformat and reinstall it does not show up in my networks. I ran ifconfig eth0 and this is what came up: Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 50:e5:49:4e:38:d9 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqeuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) Interrupt:44 This is the same thing that came up the last time I had the 5.0beta14 installed and ran ifconfig eth0. Is there a specific reason why I can see unRaid using 4.7 and not 5.0beta14?
January 19, 201214 yr We've narrowed the problem to hardware. It's the NIC, Ethernet cable, or switch. The difference between versions is hard to know; perhaps 4.7 works a little better with faulty hardware.
January 19, 201214 yr Author I have gotten this setup to work with 5.0beta14 before. Does faulty hardware work intermittently sometimes, which would explain why it worked before and not now?
January 19, 201214 yr Yes, hardware faults can be intermittent. But the problem started after the move. I would first suspect the cable to the new location. Can you move it back to its previous location and cable as a test? Or run a second cable to the current location?
January 19, 201214 yr Author When I moved it I brought the same cable too. The only thing that changed was the wall outlet I plugged the tower and router into. Which wouldn't make a difference I would think.
January 19, 201214 yr When I moved it I brought the same cable too. The only thing that changed was the wall outlet I plugged the tower and router into. Which wouldn't make a difference I would think. Cables and jacks can be intermittent, or not plugged in firmly/completely resulting in an intermittent contact. Wall outlets can be intermittent too, and if the router loses power, odds are you just think you cannot get to the server.
January 20, 201214 yr Author The router definitely has power and all connections are solid. Any way I can check the rest of my hardware?
January 21, 201214 yr The wall jack may not be wired correctly. You could get a cable tester. Does it work in the original location?
January 21, 201214 yr Author Yes. I have it working now but it only works with 4.7. 5.0beta14 has issues connecting to the network. When I do ifconfig eth0 it does not list a ip address.
January 31, 201214 yr Author I tried setting a static ip address but still no luck. The motherboard has the Realtek 8111E so I use an Intel pci-e network card. Anyone have any other suggestions?
January 31, 201214 yr Author Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: Not reported Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: Unknown! Duplex: Unknown! (255) Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on MDI-X: Unknown Supports Wake-on: pg Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x0000003f (63) Link detected: no
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January 31, 201214 yr I don't know if it is the same thing, but I had a similar problem where I had 2 network ports on my mother board. I was plugged into the gigabit and unRAID defaulted to the 100mb LAN. All I had to do was disable the 100mb one in the motherboard bios...
January 31, 201214 yr Author Yes! Thank you so much cypres0099 and dgaschk! I had to disable my onboard LAN and that fixed it. Thank you so much for your help. Now another problem is showing up but is unrelated. I can not access one of my user shares now. It says it "refers to a location that is not available". Any ideas?
February 1, 201214 yr Yes! Thank you so much cypres0099 and dgaschk! I had to disable my onboard LAN and that fixed it. Thank you so much for your help. Now another problem is showing up but is unrelated. I can not access one of my user shares now. It says it "refers to a location that is not available". Any ideas? reboot your "windows" pc. it is probably confused.
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