November 7, 200817 yr Hi, I've just tried to run unRaid. I am using an old Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I has a 3com nic and nvidia nic onboard. Does anyone know if these can be made to work? Or will I have to buy a separate Nic? Thank you.
November 7, 200817 yr Need lots more details. Linux? Mac? Vista? XP? Is the unraid working or not? Do you have a monitor on the unraid box? You have two NICs in the unraid or is the 3com in your PC? What speed (100Mb/GigE)? Bill
November 7, 200817 yr Hi, I've just tried to run unRaid. I am using an old Asus A7N8X Deluxe. I has a 3com nic and nvidia nic onboard. Does anyone know if these can be made to work? Or will I have to buy a separate Nic? Thank you. Assuming you were able to boot from your flash drive, unRAID will only use one of the NICs (it uses the first one it detects and recognizes). Try disabling one NIC, and then the other in your BIOS. The solution to your problem might be as simple as you not being plugged into the correct LAN connector on the motherboard, or the "workgroup" not being set to the same as the other PCs on your LAN.. Only way to know for sure is to see a copy of your system log. See the wiki for details on how to log in on the system console and copy the syslog file to your flash drive. http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting Once you have a syslog.txt file, attach it to your next post to this thread. Joe L.
November 7, 200817 yr It could also be as easy as forgetting to set the flash Volume label to UNRAID, that is exactly 6 capital letters. If not set, the networking will not be set up. What were the last messages on the console, especially any error messages?
November 7, 200817 yr Author It isn't a workgroup issue: I've tried assigning a static IP and the IP is not pingable. Although a ifconfig eth0 will show it correctly configured with the IP. I've ensured only the active NIC is enabled in the bios which is the 3COM. If I try to let it use DHCP it does not grab the IP. The ifconfig shows no IP. The UNRAID usb key is labelled as such. I will try to see the errors and grab a syslog Thanks guys.
November 7, 200817 yr It sounds as if you are very familiar with networking concepts... good. Next time you log on to the unRAID console, try these commands: ethtool eth0 ethtool -i eth0 grep eth0 /var/log/syslog They should look a bit like this: [pre]root@Tower:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: umbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes[/pre] [pre]root@Tower:~# ethtool -i eth0 driver: e1000 version: 7.3.20-k2-NAPI firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:01:01.0[/pre] [pre]root@Tower:~# grep eth0 /var/log/syslog Oct 24 08:06:59 Tower kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel® PRO/1000 Network Connection Oct 24 08:06:59 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1633]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing. Oct 24 08:06:59 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1633]: Using interface eth0/00:11:11:75:FB:7E with driver <e1000> (version: 7.3.20-k2-NAPI) Oct 24 08:06:59 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1633]: Using detection mode: SIOCETHTOOL Oct 24 08:06:59 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1633]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected. Oct 24 08:06:59 Tower kernel: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX Oct 24 08:07:00 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1633]: Link beat detected. Oct 24 08:07:02 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1633]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'. Oct 24 08:07:02 Tower logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 hw ether 00:11:11:75:FB:7E Oct 24 08:07:02 Tower logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: /sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.100 broadcast 192.168.2.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 Oct 24 08:07:02 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1633]: Program executed successfully. Oct 24 08:12:00 Tower ntpd[1661]: Listening on interface #2 eth0, 192.168.2.100#123 Enabled [/pre] Now, your NIC chipset will probably use a different driver than mine, but if the NIC is recognized, the lines in the syslog should give a clue as to what is happening. If a driver is being loaded, but a link not detected, it could be the cable, or the LAN connector at fault. You did try the other LAN connector on your motherboard? and a different cable? (I figured I'd ask just to be certain) Joe L.
November 7, 200817 yr Author Thanks for the help guys. I got it up and running. It would not recognize the nic that I was trying to use as eth0. But using the other one seemed to work even though when I installed Centos it would only work on the other. Strange, nevertheless I am up. Next problem: It is not recognizing the drives on my LSI Megaraid SATA 150-6. I added a drive on there using RAID0. But UNRAID is not detecting it. Does UNRAID not work with that card? Thanks again.
November 7, 200817 yr Thanks for the help guys. I got it up and running. It would not recognize the nic that I was trying to use as eth0. But using the other one seemed to work even though when I installed Centos it would only work on the other. Strange, nevertheless I am up. Next problem: It is not recognizing the drives on my LSI Megaraid SATA 150-6. I added a drive on there using RAID0. But UNRAID is not detecting it. Does UNRAID not work with that card? Thanks again. All drives must be set up as individual disks, not as any type of RAID. Don't know if your SATA chipset is supported, but many are. You may need to flash the card with the non-raid firmware... as indicated in the wiki... Check out the wiki for more details on hardware compatibility: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility Glad you are up and running on the LAN. Joe L.
November 7, 200817 yr Author Thanks Joe. I was able to disable the bios on the card. However I ran into a problem where the the mobo sata bios would hand when initializing the drive on the card. I found out that it was a bug in the firmware. I found a user made version of the bios for my board where they added a more recent version of the SATA firmware. I installed it and now works like a charm. Thanks for all your help. Here's a curiosity question: I am planning in installing 3 drivers for now. all of the 750GB drives. But one will be IDE. If the IDE drive was to die one day would I be able to replace it with a SATA drive and UNRAID rebuild it? Thanks. Pedro
November 7, 200817 yr Here's a curiosity question: I am planning in installing 3 drivers for now. all of the 750GB drives. But one will be IDE. If the IDE drive was to die one day would I be able to replace it with a SATA drive and UNRAID rebuild it? Thanks. Pedro No problem at all. All you need to do is assign the new disk to the same logical slot on the array in the "devices" page. unRAID does not care about the disk type, just that the replacement disk must be as big, or bigger than the one it is replacing, and (if it is a data drive) not bigger than the parity drive. I did exactly that in my array when I replaced my old IDE parity drive with a new SATA parity drive. You can replace the parity drive at any time with one as big, or bigger than the biggest of your currently assigned data drives. If your replacement drive is bigger than the parity drive (let's say you got a super deal on a 1.5 T drive) then you go to the devices page, assign the NEW larger drive 1.5T as parity (instead of the current smaller parity drive) then re-assign the old parity drive as the data drive you are replacing. unRAID will copy parity from the old parity drive (now assigned to the data slot) to the new parity drive, then use it to rebuild the data drive. Joe L.
November 7, 200817 yr Author Thanks Joe, Would you recommend using the IDE drive as parity? That would be the ideal scenario. I was just concerned that the Parity drive would need better disk IO. What was you experience like having the IDE drive for parity? Thanks a bunch. Pedro
November 7, 200817 yr Thanks Joe, Would you recommend using the IDE drive as parity? That would be the ideal scenario. I was just concerned that the Parity drive would need better disk IO. What was you experience like having the IDE drive for parity? Thanks a bunch. Pedro Actually, I've had my unRAID array for a number of years... my MB has two SATA ports, but at the time my server was assembled, SATA drives were not yet common and 500Gig IDE drives were the biggest available. My array was entirely IDE based up until fairly recently when I purchased a 750Gig SATA drive. I put it in place of the old 500G parity drive and then re-used the old parity drive for a data drive. I have 13 disks in my array, 11 are IDE. When I found a good deal on a 1TB SATA drive last year I replaced the parity drive and again re-allocated the old parity drive as a data drive. Now that 1.5 T drives are getting affordable, I'll probably get on, put it as parity, and again reallocate the old parity as a data drive. (I've used up the two SATA ports on my MB, but I did purchase a few IDE to SATA convertors, I figure I'll try one of those next. Seems like it is impossible to get larger IDE drives than 750G. Good thing I still have an extra slot or two in my array before I need to upgrade the smaller drives. Eventually I'll need to upgrade the whole server, but hopefully it will be a while. You can see my server here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2031.msg14977#msg14977 Joe L.
November 7, 200817 yr To answer your question, having the parity drive on a different bus than the other drives is good... I don't think the IDE controller will be as fast as the SATA controllers, so in the long run, I'd use SATA for the parity drive if you have a choice.
November 8, 200817 yr Author Great thank you! I will do that. Parity Sata 750GB Disk1 Sata 750GB Disk2 IDE 750GB Once that is full I will get a licence and add on likely 2 - 1TB or 1.5 TB. At that point I'll upgrade the parity to one of the larger drives. Next I'd love to get torrentflux working on it to take care of my torrents as well. I've used torrentflux for a few years now. First on a xbox nas, then a centos nas. Anyone out there try torrentflux on UNRAID? Pedro
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