December 9, 201213 yr I need help. Using unRaid 4.7 and a Sandisk USB. I built a mini-ITX machine a couple years ago using a Zotact MB. Roughly 6 months using it fine, I started getting intermittent issues with the network and then one day it stopped altogether. I searched around and came to the conclusion that the NIC on the Zotac board had issues. Life got busy so I didn't bother building a new machine and stopped using my unRaid server. Just recently, I built a new machine using this MB (ECS H61H2-I3). The network works maybe once out of every 5 reboots. I searched the issue and found that it could be the following: 1. Volume not named UNRAID (not likely as I was running the server just fine for several months) 2. USB port is slow to initialize (maybe, but intermittent?) 3. USB drive is failing (I think it is this one) When I get this error, I can't even run any commands. Example: I will try to run ifconfig and nothing shows. It just skips a line and looks like it ran the command, but nothing actually ran. I can't even get it to save a syslog. Doing the below gets me nothing on the drive: cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog-2008-04-10.txt chmod a-x /boot/syslog-2008-04-10.txt Also, when the network does work, unRaid does not list any drives attached even though the drives show up in BIOS.
December 9, 201213 yr I need help. Using unRaid 4.7 and a Sandisk USB. I built a mini-ITX machine a couple years ago using a Zotact MB. Roughly 6 months using it fine, I started getting intermittent issues with the network and then one day it stopped altogether. I searched around and came to the conclusion that the NIC on the Zotac board had issues. Life got busy so I didn't bother building a new machine and stopped using my unRaid server. Just recently, I built a new machine using this MB (ECS H61H2-I3). The network works maybe once out of every 5 reboots. I searched the issue and found that it could be the following: 1. Volume not named UNRAID (not likely as I was running the server just fine for several months) 2. USB port is slow to initialize (maybe, but intermittent?) 3. USB drive is failing (I think it is this one) When I get this error, I can't even run any commands. Example: I will try to run ifconfig and nothing shows. It just skips a line and looks like it ran the command, but nothing actually ran. I can't even get it to save a syslog. Doing the below gets me nothing on the drive: cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog-2008-04-10.txt chmod a-x /boot/syslog-2008-04-10.txt Also, when the network does work, unRaid does not list any drives attached even though the drives show up in BIOS. Try hooking up a monitor and keyboard directly to your server. (Re)start the server. You can then use the monitor and keyboard to generate syslog files and any other files that are necessary. If the network isn't working, you can copy the files back to the flash drive, shutdown the server, remove the flash and plug it into another PC. For anyone to help you, you will have to get a syslog file and post it. See the following thread for detailed instructions: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9880.0
December 10, 201213 yr Author I apologize for not making my initial post more clear. I was testing the new build directly with monitor and keyboard hooked up. I could not get a response from the system with the syslog commands directly into the console: cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog-2008-04-10.txt chmod a-x /boot/syslog-2008-04-10.txt To explain in more detail, I ran the syslog commands to log a syslog. I unplugged the USB drive and plugged directly into another computer running Windows 7. There was no syslog file in the USB drive, even with hidden file view enabled. I'll try it a couple more times after dinner.
December 10, 201213 yr Run the command: ls -l /boot You should see your syslog-2008-04-10.txt file in the listing. If it is not there, double check that you type the command [ cp /var/log/syslog /boot/syslog-2008-04-10.txt ] correctly. If it still not there, I would suggest you pull the flash drive and perform a check disk operation on it. By the way, on your Windows machine, the file will in the 'root' of the flash drive-- not in one of the folders (or directories) of the flash drive.
December 10, 201213 yr Author I got a syslog this time when the network works, but unRaid still can't see my drives. syslog-2012-05-13.txt
December 10, 201213 yr Author Changed mode from IDE to AHCI in the BIOS and now the disks are recognized. I should have checked this sooner. The network problem is still unsolved though. It seems at the moment to behave properly. The next time it stops working, I'll try to get a syslog.
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