I was looking to try out unRAID to replace freenas-I just find it too heavy on system requirements and whatnot for what I use it for.  My hardware is an older p4 with 3.5 gigs of ram, and a tyan transport GS12 1u server

 

I have a mediasonic 4 bay USB2/sata enclosure and I was using the USB port, freenas saw all the drives as separate drives, but unRAID will only see one (the first one) installed, and the GUI doesn't see it at all.  How do I get unRAID to see all the drives?  I see errors in dmesg about "killing requests for dead queues" when I plug it in.

 

Also when unRAID is all set up, does the drive array appear as one big volume like freenas?  Or all as separate disks?

 

Which unRAID version? See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=5904.0

Its the latest beta from the downloads site.

 

SNAP looks like something for mounting and sharing non unRAID partitions, which sounds cool and all, but I want to use the 3 drives in my enclosure as unRAID drives, but they aren't seen by unRAID, fdisk -l sees one drive only.

 

EDIT: I just tried the latest 4.stable and had similar results, it only sees the first drive installed in HDD1 slot, if that slot is empty it will go to next HDD2 slot and only see that one but not all 3 at once whereas freenas and mac OSX see all 3 drives installed in it.

Its a mediasonic 4X box.

 

 

unRAID does not support using array disks on USB ports. Mostly because it would mess up the array and require a rebuild every time one got unplugged.

unRAID does not support using array disks on USB ports. Mostly because it would mess up the array and require a rebuild every time one got unplugged.

 

ok didn't know that.  Not a big deal I have a esata card with a sil3124 chip on it for this box to support port multiplication anyways.

 

Can anyone answer my other question?  When the array is running with say 2 disks and a parity disk, does it appear as one large volume when its exported as an AFP or SMB share?

 

 

Yes it appears like one large volume. I'm new at UnRAID so please correct me if I'm wrong...but you can add mount points so that they can appear like different volumes.

You can export disk by disk or you can create a user share which combines both disks and export that as a single smb point.

One multi-disk share may be exported. Files are not striped. One disk per file.