May 2, 200818 yr I don't know if it refreshes that display on the browser on its own. Mine never has. Press the refresh button (either on the web-interface, or on the browser) and it should show current status. Mounting usually only takes a second or two, formatting less than a minute or two on most drives... clearing a drive can take hours, as it has to write zeros to every byte on it. Yes, it is normal for the parity drive to say nothing. Did you manually assign an IP address? Do you have a router on your LAN? Do you manually assign the IP address of all your PCs on your LAN. (We are curious, what did you do to get things working?) Joe L.
May 2, 200818 yr Author ok. its syncing the parity drive now. current position is (29.5%) no i didnt have to set it manually. im a F#%%ing retard. i just had to put the cat5 cable in the top port on my mb.
May 3, 200818 yr Author yea im an idiot. but i am glad i can amuse. ok so you guys ready for some more comedy? now that the three drives are formatted and everything is ready to go, now what? how do i add al my files? i have 9 hd's full of dvd's ready to be put on this thing.
May 3, 200818 yr If you export your shares on the unRAID server as read/write, and then use file-explorer in windows and browse the "network neighborhood" you should find the drives ready for you to move your files. For this to work the "workgroup" name of the PC should be the same as the workgroup name on the unRAID server. Have fun. Joe L.
May 3, 200818 yr BUT If you have sooo much data, don't do it over the network (will take very long). Check out wiki and try to mount each drive consecutively, copy the data it has to the free space, then add the drive to the array (to add to the total shares), format etc. and repeat... This is what I did. Also if you are on the risky side, don't use a parity drive yet, just assign one after you finished all copies (as it will speed up the process by much).
May 3, 200818 yr Author im having a hard time finding that in the wiki. can someone send me a link please. like i said i have a lot of to move and i dont wanna loose it so im a little paranoid. thanks guys
May 3, 200818 yr Author they are ntfs format. right now they are just the hdd's sitting in a pile on my desk. i have a bunch of nise external cases (Antec from Staples 60$ but really nice) though so i can put them in those if its easier. i dont mind if it takes a while but i am no good with commands. if there is a way to just plug the usb/esata drives into my desktop and drag and drop the files to a shortcut of the tower im all ears. im a pro at draging and dropping. the only problem i saw with that is my desktop is wireless. is that going to mess with anything? i do have a dlink dns-g120 usb network adapter if that helps. it is hard wired to the router. i have never used it befor but im pretty sure it cant be that hard to work.
May 3, 200818 yr You can definitely drag and drop files on your desktop. You should be able to find your new unRAID machine in network neighborhood and then drag and drop files on the user shares you have made (or disk shares). Of course using wireless this will probably take forever (see you next month). Now if you don't know what I am talking about (user shares, disk shares, machine in network neighborhood) you really need to start reading the manual man. Now if you want to do things more effectively: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Copy_files_from_a_NTFS_drive http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mounting_an_external_USB_drive_having_an_existing_NTFS_file_system_in_READ/WRITE_mode_to_transport_files_from/to_unRaid_server (btw, quite easy to find in the product's wiki - did you look at all?)
May 3, 200818 yr Author yea i read both of those. i just was unsure they where what i was looking for. ok well i set up the home network think so i could see the tower on the workgroup. my only question is thisshould i only be able to see two of the three drives and the usb drive? the parity is sopposed to be hidden correct. and by the way i have read the manual three times i just want to make sure i get everything right. im unsure about this whole linux thing. JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS... you guys are F#&&ING AWESOME. i appreciate the hell out of all the help you guys have given me. im a member of about 7 other forums (avs, doom9, etc.) and you better believe ill be on those over the next few months promoting unraid.
May 3, 200818 yr - Parity is not "hidden", it doesn't even have a file system - you don't see it ever, except in the web interface. - Initially you will just see the disk shares and maybe the flash (I don't remember if it shows by default): So if you have 2 disks and a parity, you will see disk1, disk2 and flash. BUT the point is to not use unRAID like single disks Go in web interface (READ THE MANUAL) and setup a few user shares. Then assign each share to specific disks (or even to all, if you don't care things to be organized per disk), set up permissions and then maybe hide disk shares and the flash from the common eye (you can just hide them - still accessible if you type the name - or even stop them from being shared)... This way instead of: //tower/disk1 //tower/disk2 //tower/disk3 //tower/disk5 //tower/flash you will see //tower/audio //tower/video //tower/whatever ...then you are really using the system.
September 25, 200916 yr ok everything looks good except the ifconfig. here is what i get. eth0 link encap:ethernet hwaddr oo:17:31:c4:4f:fa 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 txqueuelen:1000 rx bytes:0 (0.0 b) tx bytes:0 (0.0 b) interrupt:10 base address:0x6000 lo link encap:local loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0 up loopback running mtu:16436 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 txqueuelen:0 rx bytes:0 (0.0 b) tx bytes:0 (0.0 b) does that make sence to anyone. im stuck I want to push this thread up as I have exactly the same problem with my new unraid system. The system boots perfectly. I can read the notice that a gigabit lan driver was installed while booting. I have attached the server tower to my router (linksys) with internal dhcp client - though it did not get an ip address. Then I modified the network.cfg file to give it a permanent ip. But result was the same. I have an Asrock board (A780GM-LE) with AMD 780G chipset. AMD Sempron 1150 LE 2Gigabyte RAM 2 Samsung 1500 GB harddrives and one WD 1000 GB harddrive I also have made a syslog and hope you can help me a little bit. After reading about 5 hours on the forum and the FAQ and the Wiki and nearly two days waiting for confirmation mail of the forum (after having changed my mail address four times it worked) I am really stuck now. Please help me..... BTW: the flash drive is named UNRAID and I can get to the prompt where I can insert root and ifconfig...... I have attached the syslog.
September 25, 200916 yr Everything looks good except this line: Sep 23 20:08:32 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1119]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected It is saying the ethernet port does not detect a LAN cable connected to another device. As a result, you'll never get anywhere further. Most ethernet jacks have LED lights that will illuminate when a cable is plugged in. Some will light in one of several colors to indicate the connection speed. Do you see any lights? (I'm guessing you will not see any) It could be: A defective cable. (100Mb/s cables may not work, although they might connect at slower speeds. cables made for telephone use will not work.) The far end of the cable is not fully plugged into the router. A defective port on the router you are connecting to. Less likely, but possible ... The cable is not fully plugged into the connector on the back of the motherboard. Least likely, but also possible ... a defective LAN port on the motherboard. Joe L.
September 25, 200916 yr Hallo Joe, thank you for your reply. The cable is a standard cat 5e cable. It clicked when I put it the plug into the netwerk port and also in the router. The router is also blinking that something is connected there. So from there everything is fine. I have just tried it again with another cable and another port on the router. The same result with ifconfig. The mainboard I am using is a little bit different as the ones I had in the past. I know normally an ethernet port on the mobo has two leds. One is for connection available (yes, no) and the other one is blinking when traffic is transferred. This one has also two (an orange and a yellow one). But these two are blinking permanently..... I will try installing windows xp on one of the harddrives to check if the ethernet port is fine... I just recognized that I am actually using version 4.4.....but I think answering in this area is nevertheless okay...... Somehow I think my unraid server is under bad star.... this is my second mobo (the first one was completely broken - did not turn on) and I had two backplanes which I do not use as I had to send both back *arrrrgh* Best regards schark
September 25, 200916 yr My impression from the syslog is that it recognizes this Realtek chipset as within the r8100 family that uses the r8169 driver, but can't tell the specific model (see the "unknown MAC" message and generic identifier in following line), so either this is a defective chipset or one too new for its table of known Realteks. You might try the newest unRAID release and see if it is better supported. Otherwise, you may want to install a network card and disable the onboard NIC. As Joe said, it does not think there is a cable attached. Or you have 2 bad cables!
September 26, 200916 yr Hallo Rob, Luckily, I still have some pci network cards in my inventories. I added a 100 Mbit network card, deactivated the onboard gigabit lan and here it comes => It works perfectly (by the way with the same cable as before ) Right now the array of three disks is formatting and parity drive is syncing.... Thank you all for your help so far! So far so good.....
September 26, 200916 yr Hmmm, would have been great if I had been done with hickups but no..... After 8 hours for the parity check the three discs are online (have the green ball at the left side). But when clicking on disk 2 it tells me that file system is ntfs and disc three has no file system and nor partition 1. Perhaps the free version (for testing purpose so far) has no "format my array"-button or I am totally blind..... And second question: How can I access my array at all? I cannot find it under network in Win7 and when entering the ip address in the browser it has the same effect as entering //tower You see me again confused and it felt so good that it worked.......
September 26, 200916 yr Hmmm, would have been great if I had been done with hickups but no..... After 8 hours for the parity check the three discs are online (have the green ball at the left side). But when clicking on disk 2 it tells me that file system is ntfs and disc three has no file system and nor partition 1. Perhaps the free version (for testing purpose so far) has no "format my array"-button or I am totally blind..... And second question: How can I access my array at all? I cannot find it under network in Win7 and when entering the ip address in the browser it has the same effect as entering //tower You see me again confused and it felt so good that it worked....... If you are using version 4.3 of unRAID, as your post in this thread seems to indicate, the file-system type in the display was not updated properly until the next time you reboot. Don't worry about it still showing ntfs. (this was fixed in the 4.5-beta3 version) I would strongly suggest you use at least 4.4.2, or even the most recent beta 4.5beta6. (The beta features/bugs should not affect you in any way) Before you do anything... to get help... you MUST provide the detail needed to provide the help, and for 99.999% of the cases, that is a copy of your syslog file. Instructions in the wiki under troubleshooting on how to capture a copy. Attach it to your next post. Windows 7 has its own bugs... It is the job of the "master browser" service on your LAN to track the available shared services. Typically it scans every 15 minutes or so. Google "master browser" for an education on seeing windows shares. In any case, try using \\IP-ADDR\ in window's explorer instead of internet explorer, using backslashes instead of forward slashes. You might have better results. Joe L.
September 26, 200916 yr Hallo Joe, Thank you again. It worked! Rebooting the server solved it. And I can also get on the server now by entering \\IP-ADRESS\ in the normal explorer. I have also created some user shares now (movies, tv-series and music) with split level set to 1. Tomorrow I need to improve the write speed to the server. 3 MB/s is really too less. And I want to install some extra features (Wake on LAN, torrent client and automatic power-off). Right now I am running version 4.4.2 - I only saw that this is the area of version 4.3 after submitting the first post. For the time being I am running the free version with only three drives. If I am convinced that unraid is the right thing for me I will go for a pro version with cache drive support. As far as I have read I then need to install all extra features again but then I am already trained a little bit.....
September 27, 200916 yr Okay, I am total linux newbie and I have tried to find it in the FAQ, in the forums but I cannot find the answer. I want to use unmenu. But how to install the package I have downloaded? Just copy the files to the flash drive into a folder named unmenu? I always see "After installing unmenu..." but how to install???
September 27, 200916 yr installing unmenu is as simple as following the directions at the googlecode site. You can get to everything you need to know about unmenu by going to the Add-on's page in the unRAID wiki and reading about unmenu.
September 27, 200916 yr Okay, I am total linux newbie and I have tried to find it in the FAQ, in the forums but I cannot find the answer. I want to use unmenu. But how to install the package I have downloaded? Just copy the files to the flash drive into a folder named unmenu? I always see "After installing unmenu..." but how to install??? There are three zip files at the google.code site. You will want them all. Unzip them all in the same directory where you want to put all the unmenu files. Most people create an "unmenu" folder at the root of their flash drive and put them there. Since the flash drive in unRAID is mounted at /boot, the full linux path to the files is therefore, /boot/unmenu. There is a "start-up" script included. It is named "uu" Leave it in the same directory as all the other unmenu files. (In fact, it must reside there.) To start up this newest version of unmenu, either "cd" to the directory with the unmenu files like this: cd /boot/unmenu and then type (at the command prompt in Linux): uu or, type the full path to the directory with the files (as an example, if your folder is /boot/unmenu) /boot/unmenu/uu After you start the unmenu server (by typing "uu" in the instruction above) you can see the improved interface in your browser by using the following URL: http://tower:8080 If you changed the name of your server, use it instead of "tower" in the path in your browser. Joe L.
September 27, 200916 yr Hallo Joe, thank you for you perfect explanation. I nly had one package downloaded from the googlesite. Now it worked. Beside one red line in the syslog: Sep 27 13:33:21 Tower unmenu[1314]: smartctl: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I like it. But one thing I am wondering. Do I need to start the unmenu manually via start script "uu". Is there an automatic way? perhaps?
September 27, 200916 yr add /boot/unmenu/uu to your go script and unmenu will start each time the server is started. as for the line in red you can use the unmenu package manager to load the missing library and then make it install on every reboot. You want to install the "cxxlibs-6.0.9-i486.tgz library" to get the line to go away.
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