March 5, 201313 yr I bought a 3 TB hard drive from Best Buy two days ago for $104 dollars, which included a $25 dollars gift card. So the actual total woud of been $129.00. Anyway, approximately 30 min. ago, I took my server apart, installed the UPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8, hooked up the 3TB hard drive. I put everything together, turn it one, and everything went okay so far. I was able to log on to Simple Features, and it recognized my 3 TB hard drive. I am running it headless, so I used Putty, and it is currently pre-clearing. I know this is dumb, but I feel happy and so proud lol . I didn't think I was going to be able to do this. I am hoping everything goes well, so this new 3TB hard drive will be my new parity drive. I am going to start buying 3 TB from now on. My wife is giving the look....LOSER!!! LOL.
March 5, 201313 yr lol nice work mate - only thing I'd recommend is disabling INT13 on that card if you haven't already, it's an option in its BIOS.
March 5, 201313 yr lol nice work mate - only thing I'd recommend is disabling INT13 on that card if you haven't already, it's an option in its BIOS. Can I ask why? Wikipedia pretty much is just telling me that it's to do with helping control the disk.
March 5, 201313 yr Other than everyone suggesting it (just search for INT13 on this forum), here's an explanation: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26307.msg229919#msg229919
March 5, 201313 yr Other than everyone suggesting it (just search for INT13 on this forum), here's an explanation: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26307.msg229919#msg229919 So it's purely to stop the MOBO booting in the wrong device? I've already told the BIOS to remove all possible boot orders other than the flash drive.
March 5, 201313 yr I also do not have it disabled but it actually is a good idea. It happens allmost weekly that some user gets extreme panic because their array does not boot anymore, in a lot of cases it is the bios that for some reason has changed the bootorder and the system will start booting from the wrong disk. You might make this less likely if you enable the int13h on the expansion cards. System will run fine without that change though.
March 5, 201313 yr I also do not have it disabled but it actually is a good idea. It happens allmost weekly that some user gets extreme panic because their array does not boot anymore, in a lot of cases it is the bios that for some reason has changed the bootorder and the system will start booting from the wrong disk. You might make this less likely if you enable the int13h on the expansion cards. System will run fine without that change though. What to do if your stuff doesn't boot:- Try it on another PC If it boots, work out what's wrong with your hardware, it's unraid unrelated. EDIT:- Title of this post ("I'm so happy") reminds me of this:-
March 5, 201313 yr I know this is dumb, but I feel happy and so proud lol . I didn't think I was going to be able to do this. I am hoping everything goes well, so this new 3TB hard drive will be my new parity drive. I am going to start buying 3 TB from now on. My wife is giving the look....LOSER!!! LOL. Woohoo! Great JOB!
March 5, 201313 yr Author Other than everyone suggesting it (just search for INT13 on this forum), here's an explanation: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26307.msg229919#msg229919 How do I get in to the BIOS if I am running it headless?
March 5, 201313 yr The only way I'm aware that you can do it would be to attach a monitor/mouse temporarily, or move it to another system temporarily. I suppose you could try inputting the commands blindly, but I would highly recommend against that.
March 5, 201313 yr Author The only way I'm aware that you can do it would be to attach a monitor/mouse temporarily, or move it to another system temporarily. I suppose you could try inputting the commands blindly, but I would highly recommend against that. Ok I believe I've got another monitor in my garage. Thanks. I am going to wait for the preclearing to be complete. Thereafter, I will attempt to get into the cards BIOS and change the INT13. If I've got any issues I will come to you guys for help
March 5, 201313 yr Other than everyone suggesting it (just search for INT13 on this forum), here's an explanation: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26307.msg229919#msg229919 How do I get in to the BIOS if I am running it headless? If you're running a board that supports IPMI, use that. Here's a photo of what it'd roughly look like:-
March 6, 201313 yr Author Well, 29 hrs, 25 min and 23 seconds later the 3TB HDD has completed the preclear process. That's a long time is this normal?
March 6, 201313 yr Well, 29 hrs, 25 min and 23 seconds later the 3TB HDD has completed the preclear process. That's a long time is this normal? Two drives I'm currently preclearing:- Mine is on 30 hours and still only 70% on the last part of the first cycle. Weee three cycles are gonna be fun. EDIT:- Mine is a green drive though.
March 6, 201313 yr Author Well, 29 hrs, 25 min and 23 seconds later the 3TB HDD has completed the preclear process. That's a long time is this normal? Two drives I'm currently preclearing:- Mine is on 30 hours and still only 70% on the last part of the first cycle. Weee three cycles are gonna be fun. EDIT:- Mine is a green drive though. My 3TB is not a green drive. It a Seagate STBD3000100. I was looking for a green or red drive, but I couldn't pass the good deal on it. UPDATE: I was able to go into the SAS card bios and the INT13 was already disabled. I just enabled the 3TB to be my parity drive, and it is doing a parity sync at the moment. Should be done with the sync in 15 hours.
March 6, 201313 yr Well, 29 hrs, 25 min and 23 seconds later the 3TB HDD has completed the preclear process. That's a long time is this normal? Two drives I'm currently preclearing:- Mine is on 30 hours and still only 70% on the last part of the first cycle. Weee three cycles are gonna be fun. EDIT:- Mine is a green drive though. My 3TB is not a green drive. It a Seagate STBD3000100. I was looking for a green or red drive, but I couldn't pass the good deal on it. UPDATE: I was able to go into the SAS card bios and the INT13 was already disabled. I just enabled the 3TB to be my parity drive, and it is doing a parity sync at the moment. Should be done with the sync in 15 hours. My red drives all took ~ 25 hours per cycle, this green drive is so slow compared to them. Not sure why, I'm pretty sure they both spin at 5400RPM.
March 7, 201313 yr So it's purely to stop the MOBO booting in the wrong device? I've already told the BIOS to remove all possible boot orders other than the flash drive. Yes, but considering it takes 5 seconds to change the setting, and there's no side effect to doing so.. why wouldn't you?
March 7, 201313 yr So it's purely to stop the MOBO booting in the wrong device? I've already told the BIOS to remove all possible boot orders other than the flash drive. Yes, but considering it takes 5 seconds to change the setting, and there's no side effect to doing so.. why wouldn't you? The fact that my card only listens to my ctrl+m input around 1/10th of the time through IPMI, so, I'd have to restart the server (on average) 10 times. Oh, and the fact that I'm running badblocks at the moment so I'd stop that, and also the fact I don't really want to restart my server.
March 7, 201313 yr Author It's taking forever to add a new drive via Simple Features. Simple Features becomes unresponsive when I had to "clear" my former parity drive. I added it to my data, and it is supposed to be formatting the drive, and again Simple Features is unresponsive. I had to leave my server on over night just to make sure it completed the "clearing." Now, I don't it is unresponsive again. I can't log on via tower:8080 or IP address. So, I guess I'll just leave and let it do its thing.
March 7, 201313 yr Author Update: The formatting part was rather quick. I restarted my server and now conducting a parity check. Something that I noticed it states that 94.7 MB are being used even though the hdd is empty. Why is that?
March 7, 201313 yr probably some hidden files you do not see.. Also: "adding using simplefeatures" should be read as "adding in unraid. Simplefeatures is a shell around the unraid functionality.
March 7, 201313 yr Author probably some hidden files you do not see.. Also: "adding using simplefeatures" should be read as "adding in unraid. Simplefeatures is a shell around the unraid functionality. Well, after going through this fiasco, I am going to remove Simple Features and use UnMenu. I don't like how Simple Features makes my server become unresponsive, and I don't know what the status is.
March 7, 201313 yr probably some hidden files you do not see.. Also: "adding using simplefeatures" should be read as "adding in unraid. Simplefeatures is a shell around the unraid functionality. Well, after going through this fiasco, I am going to remove Simple Features and use UnMenu. I don't like how Simple Features makes my server become unresponsive, and I don't know what the status is. I recognize the feeling but I am positive they will fix it, I have even donated to their cause some time ago, very knowledgebable folk.
March 7, 201313 yr probably some hidden files you do not see.. Also: "adding using simplefeatures" should be read as "adding in unraid. Simplefeatures is a shell around the unraid functionality. Well, after going through this fiasco, I am going to remove Simple Features and use UnMenu. I don't like how Simple Features makes my server become unresponsive, and I don't know what the status is. You do realize that formatting takes awhile? It took me a good 5 minutes per drive, if you add more than one drive it takes ~ 5 minutes per drive. When I installed my first 3 drives it was just loading for 15 minutes, then each time I've added one drive it just idles for 5, till it finally loads. EDIT:- First three drives was via the stock unraid UI, other (single) drives were added via simple features.
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