Blade Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 I currently have an unraid 4.7 machine setup and it has 1 parity and 4 data drives in it. I have been having nothing but problems with the motherboard and/or NIC in the machine. It just seems to take forever to access files and it is quite annoying. Is it easy to replace the motherboard and still have the array stay intact? What would be the best way to go about this? What motherboard would be the best to use? I am using a sempron 145 processor Link to comment
Hoopster Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 When I first built my unRAID server, I thought I was having troubles related to the PCIe slot on the MB, so, I swapped motherboards. The array remained intact and no changes were required from the unRAID side at all. Turns out the MB was not the problem and the second MB died during a BIOS update, so, again, a few weeks later, I had to swap out the MB back to the original. No problems at all from unRAID through these multiple swaps and the array kept functioning without any config changes. I was doing all of this with v5 beta 14 and I don't know if version 4.x would make any difference (I doubt it), but, my experience is that a MB swap is just a matter of a) disconnect everything from the old MB and remove from case, b) install new MB in case and connect, PSU, drives, etc. and reboot. It was that simple in my case. With no OS/drivers on a hard drive and everything being loaded into RAM, unRAID seems very forgiving if you have to swap the MB. Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 2, 2012 Share Posted September 2, 2012 I was doing all of this with v5 beta 14 and I don't know if version 4.x would make any difference (I doubt it) The biggest difference is that you may need to correctly reassign your drives to their original roles after the swap on 4.7, so take a screenshot of your drive assignment page before you do the swap. Link to comment
Blade Posted September 2, 2012 Author Share Posted September 2, 2012 OK Great. What AMD motherboard would be the best? I want a board where the NIC works fine with unraid. Do not want to spend a fortune on it. Link to comment
dgaschk Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135314 Link to comment
Blade Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Thanks dgaschk Are you using this board as well? I did a search on the forums and nothing was found on this board. I had thought there were issues with unraid and Realtek 8111E. I am using unraid 4.7 Link to comment
Blade Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Maybe I just need to upgrade from 4.7 to 5 and that would solve the issue. Is there a document on the steps to upgrade from the 4.7 to v5? What version is the best to upgrade to? I am a little scared to do it Link to comment
Hoopster Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 I had thought there were issues with unraid and Realtek 8111E. I am using unraid 4.7 My MB (Intel socket 1155 Biostar TH61-ITX) has the Realtek 8111E NIC and I have *never* had any problems with it. As mentioned in several threads, with this NIC, you really need to be running version 5 beta 8? or higher. I started with v5 beta 14 and last week updated to v5 RC6-r8168-test2 which is the very latest available release candidate build. I still see no NIC related issues with the Realtek 8111E. In fact, the r8168 part of the RC6 file name refers to the Realtek driver version in the Linux kernel which seems to be less problematic that the 8169 included in prior builds. In my experience at least, the 8111E NIC has never been an issue with unRAID v5 builds. Link to comment
Hoopster Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 The instructions for upgrading from version 4.7 to a v5 release candidate are found here: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Server_Version_5.0-beta_Release_Notes And here is the download link for the latest release candidate code: http://download.lime-technology.com/download/unRAID%20Server%205.0-rc6-r8168-test2%20AiO.zip Link to comment
Blade Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 Awesome thanks I have upgraded it and it is now running the new permissons script. Looks like that is going to take a while Link to comment
dgaschk Posted September 3, 2012 Share Posted September 3, 2012 Thanks dgaschk Are you using this board as well? I did a search on the forums and nothing was found on this board. I had thought there were issues with unraid and Realtek 8111E. I am using unraid 4.7 This board works with the latest versions of v5. I've not tested the PCI-e slots yet. I'll be testing with a saslp this week. Link to comment
Blade Posted September 3, 2012 Author Share Posted September 3, 2012 I upgraded to the latest v5 release. Here is the syslog. Can someone tell me if things look ok Thanks syslog.txt Link to comment
Blade Posted September 7, 2012 Author Share Posted September 7, 2012 It appears that unmenu does not load Are there any other issues in my syslog? Link to comment
dgaschk Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Thanks dgaschk Are you using this board as well? I did a search on the forums and nothing was found on this board. I had thought there were issues with unraid and Realtek 8111E. I am using unraid 4.7 This board works with the latest versions of v5. I've not tested the PCI-e slots yet. I'll be testing with a saslp this week. SASLP appears to work fine. I'll test its build speed today. Link to comment
Blade Posted September 11, 2012 Author Share Posted September 11, 2012 Nice job. Keep me up to date Link to comment
dgaschk Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 It works well with the saslp. Pre-clear zeroing when at 155Mbps on ST3000DM001-9YN166. Parity check is 6.7 hours for 3T. Link to comment
Blade Posted October 25, 2012 Author Share Posted October 25, 2012 dgaschk, How did this motherboard hold up on your tests? How was network card in it with unraid 5? I am using the newest rc8a build on my tower currently. Thanks Link to comment
dgaschk Posted October 25, 2012 Share Posted October 25, 2012 I've been running it under 5.0-rc6-r8168-test with no problems. I'll be changing to rc8a soon. Link to comment
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