I am running 5.0rc10 plus version.  BTW, love it.  5.5TB + cache.

 

I rebooted my server to prep a new drive and after the reboot my 8111E would not work, did not appear to load a driver.  So, I connected my old pci Realtek 8169 based card that I keep in the system and rebooted and it works fine.  The 8111E works fine from the UFEI bios to check for firmware updates, so the port is not dead.  The board is an Asrock FM2A85X Extreme 6.  I can add a syslog tonight with the ethernet port enabled. 

 

I am somewhat of a linux newbie, can navigate and install packages but that is about the end of it.  How do I install zip and have the system zip my syslogs and store them somewhere?  I notice a message during boot that recommends doing just that.

 

How does one find out if a disk is running sata 2 or sata 3?  I see some entries in the syslog, but am not sure what they are telling me.  I have a WD 1002FAEX that was in the list of drives that had a negotiation bug in the firmware and I ran the firmware fix from WD on my windows box, but I want to be sure that it is working properly in UnRaid.

 

Thanks Matt

It will be a lot easier to answer, once we see that syslog! 

I found the problem, not sure why it was a problem... with the MB controller enabled and a pci based controller in a slot the onboard would not work.  It has been working until I rebooted last night.  So, maybe a problem with the fact that 2 were installed.  I removed the pci card and the onboard works fine again.

UnRAID always uses eth0 for network comms, in effect using whatever the kernel found and set up first as eth0.  If you only have one NIC, then it's eth0 and everything is fine.  Unfortunately, if you have more than one, the kernel has not always been consistent as to which one it identifies first, so your preferred NIC was probably set up as eth1.  You should be able to see that in the earlier syslog.

Thanks for the answer, I wondered if it was something along those lines.