http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358

 

Looks decent, I didn't quite understand how it worked but you said it has or comes with a breakout cable ? or do I have to order this with it ?

 

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116097

 

As well, this card plugs into the BLACK PCI-E on the Asus motherboard I am going with? being that the card connection is shorter, it still plugs into that PCIE (GFX) slot to have 4x?

 

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And I think I am going to go with this board here ...

 

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=76522&vpn=M5A97%20R2.0&manufacture=ASUS&promoid=1336

 

let me know what you think of the motherboard , thanks

Your link to a motherboard jus comes to a generic NCIX page => what's the actual motherboard make/model you're thinking of?

 

The AOC-SASLP requires a PCIe x4 slot, as does the board you're looking at (which only uses 2 lanes, but needs the x4 slot to get those 2 lanes).    The motherboard I think you're looking at only has 1 x16 slot, and the rest are either PCI slots (no good for your purpose here) and PCIe x1 slots (not enough lanes).

 

You either need to get a board that supports on-board or on-chip video, so you can use the x16 slot for something besides a video card;  or get a board with more than 1 PCIe slot with multiple lanes (either x16, x8, or x4 slots).

 

weird, link works here

 

NEW LINK: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97_R20/#specifications

 

ASUS M5A97 R2.0 AMD970/SB950 ATX AM3+ DDR3 2PCI-E16 2PCI-E1 SATA3 USB3.0 CrossFireX Motherboard

 

Unless I am not understanding this correctly

 

Multi-GPU Support Supports AMD Quad-GPU CrossFireX™ Technology

Expansion Slots 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (blue)

1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x4 mode, black)

2 x PCIe 2.0 x1

2 x PCI

 

AMD SB950 controller :

6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), gray

 

Realtek® 8111F, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s)

 

Hope that helps, get back to me with your thoughts.  I have already ordered the SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 , as I think that is going to help me out BIG TIME. Motherboard I am going to grab tomorrow morning, mind you provided it is correct.

Yes, the 2nd PCIe x16 slot (black) will work fine for that card.

 

Perfect I can't wait to see how all this goes. Perhaps I should update to UNRaid 5.0 Release Client. I am not sure though ?

 

I saw your instructions here >> http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=27595.0

 

and thinking about just starting a fresh flash of 5.0 -- setting up everything from scratch. I assume my data will be good and in-tact? I will have to learn how 5 operates with shares and all that access. I will probably take screen shots of my 4.7 to remember everything I am looking at. As well I have copied everything from my current flash drive, made a backup , and rar'd it.

 

This way I can skip this so to speak >> http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Migrating_from_unRAID_4.7_to_unRAID_5.0

 

What you think ? I wouldn't mind being able to toss in 3TB drives in the future as long as just being 'current'

 

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I am not sure if I need specific drivers or add-ons for the SuperMicro card, or if it just works, I am trying to find information on that now so I am set and ready to go tomorrow.

 

 

The write issues I am having internally on the server, as well a locally to the server are very annoying. Speeds and Performance are at an all time low copying to, and even reading from. Did a SMART test all drives seem fine. Been going for months on this, and I have nothing more to say then it is the motherboard as well as the promise controller card I have in my system.

EDIT: Sorry, just realized I posted before reading entire thread.  Hope this still helps if you're still looking to simply stabilize your old system as you gather parts for the new system.

 

Yep, looks hardware related looking at the console dumps you posted.  Something "bad" happened and it caused the kernel to panic and hit the brakes halting the system.  Once at that state there is nothing you can do other than reset the system.

 

Might want to try some Google searches on the initial part of the kernel panic along with your motherboard model just to see if there are any known patterns there.  I don't think a firmware update will really help either.  Your system was working for a long time and then suddenly you have having critical problems.  So, that's a change in behavior and most likely hardware related.  Might explain what happened to your bad disk.

 

I would try detaching the bad drive and see if things stabilize again.  You'll still be in a degraded state, but it might help confirm the culprit.  It could be the motherboard is dying, but it's possible the controller on your bad disk is dying and puking its guts out on the SATA bus causing all sorts of issues.

Thanks man, yah the bad disk was in fact bad, and already has been replaced and rebuilt. But still these critical issues are happening. So tomorrow the new motherboard is going in, new ram, still keeping my current CPU.

 

Have the SAS Card on order in the mail, so I will have to use my Promise PCI for a bit longer till it arrives. I am then going to wipe my flash, format and start a brand new UnRAID 5.0 flash drive, and start from the ground up that way. My thoughts is it should keep all my data in tact and not alter anything.

 

I will just have to allow for one parity sync I do believe. UnRaid will probably see them all as new disks, so I hope to god I don't lose any information going this route.

 

Cheers

If you start a new configuration with v5 UnRAID won't see them all as "new" disks ==> it will see the data that's currently on them with no problem.

 

Simply install all of your disks; and for the initial configuration assign all of the DATA disks to the array (but NOT a parity disk).    When you're satisfied that all the disks are assigned and "seen" okay, THEN you can assign a parity disk and the system will then do an initial parity sync.    When that finishes, do a parity check to confirm all is okay.

 

... and then you're "off to the races" with v5

 

Ah good to know, assign all data first, save or start the array, then stop, add parity. seems easy enough. I can't wait to see how everything goes !

Note that once you've assigned a parity drive, THEN any additional disk(s) you add will indeed be treated as "new" disks and will be cleared before you can add them -- so at that point you cannot add disks that already have data on them.

 

But until you assign the parity disk, you can freely add disks that already have data, as long as it's in the proper ReiserFS format (i.e. disks from your old UnRAID array).

 

OK that's cool. I still preclear my disk(s) before I add them to my array too.

Alright I am all setup on version 5. However a few things. I can not seem to get the shares setup like I had in 4.7

 

Example : 2 users on my server > admin and guest

 

Example the shares in 5, doesn't have a section to allow admin to all shares, and exclude guest on some like 4.7 had. I want to be able to add shares I want to guests ONLY (ie not have access to anything) am I missing something? Doesn't seem to have the EXPORT read/write features I am use to from 4.7

 

I don't want my flash exported either :-/

 

Another thing, my server is broadcasting in my network, but when I access "tower" I see all disks as well as shares. I want it to prompt me for password every time (guest or admin) I just want to see shares not the disks. I want admin to see all shares, or disks (I usually map my drives on the admin PC) but I only want guests or other nodes on my network to see "tower" but have limited access to shares.

 

 

And one other thing, I was accessing some folders on my server, I can access them all in the UnRaid GUI, however in windows explorer it saying I have no permission to access certain folders. ie, I can access "The Simpsons" but can't access "Family Guy"

 

Right now I have all my disks online, without parity assigned until I figure all this out. I will not be writing to my disk at all until I am 100%

 

 

 

 

Example the shares in 5, doesn't have a section to allow admin to all shares, and exclude guest on some like 4.7 had. I want to be able to add shares I want to guests ONLY (ie not have access to anything) am I missing something?

If you go under a share setting then you can set the SMB security to 'secure' and then set the type of access each user should have

 

Another thing, my server is broadcasting in my network, but when I access "tower" I see all disks as well as shares. I just want to see shares. I want admin to see all shares, or disks (I usually map my drives on the admin PC) but I only want guests or other nodes on my network to see "tower" but have limited access to shares.

If you go into drive settings you can set whether they are shares or not, and the security you want applied.    Sounds like you might want visibility set to Hidden and the SmB security set to 'Secure' so you can specify only admin cn do things.

 

 

And one other thing, I was accessing some folders on my server, I can access them all in the UnRaid GUI, however in windows explorer it saying I have no permission to access certain folders. ie, I can access "The Simpsons" but can't access "Family Guy"

Have you run the NewPerms utility after the upgrade to 5?

I have not run newperms no.

 

I think I got security shares setup for the most part.

 

 

Another question, when I stop my array, and assign my parity disk, it says new parity disk installed, that is correct right?

 

I assigned all my data disks, to be sure I could see and access them as stated above, then add my parity and let it do a sync. It thinks it is a new disk because it was never added yet, right ?

Thank you for ALL THE HELP everyone. And those that read too. By tomorrow I should know how everything is running.

 

Doing a parity sync with UnRAID 5 rc16c (pro)

 

Did some speed tests before the sync and holy crap what a difference 'proper' hardware makes, this isn't even with my SAS card in yet. I shouldn't have cheap'd out basically downgraded from an Intel board I was using when I first purchased UnRAID. You get what you pay for, and I payed for frustration for a bit there lol.

 

Anyways the new hardware seems to have made a massive difference as well as finally updating to Unraid 5 from 4.7. I really like it. Once you understand the fine tuning and where everything is, it is wonderful.

 

Fingers crossed about the progress. Keep you posted. I am a day away from PROBLEM SOLVED.

 

Again thank you for taking the time to read, and reply back. Having people in the community is a great thing.

 

 

 

Quick question, I have my BIOS SATA set to IDE, I had that set like that with 4.7 - Should I use AHCI ?

Quick question, I have my BIOS SATA set to IDE, I had that set like that with 4.7 - Should I use AHCI ?

IDE will nearly always impact performance.  You want AHCI.

Cool, Thank you, I will change that when my parity sync is done. Much appreciated :-) Looking forward to getting my SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 today!

 

 

Thank you everyone !

Bombz,

 

Sorry to dredge up an older post, but did your new hardware fix the problem?

 

Your problem seems similar to what I'm currently experiencing.  My unRaid 4.7 has worked well for around a year but last week it started locking up every time I try to copy data to it.  The console locks up as well so the lockups require a hard reset to reboot.  I can read data fine but any writes from any computer in my home cause it to lock up.  Also, one of the directories in my share has no files in it.  However, if I go to the individual disks, the files are there (and they were in the share until this problem occurred).  I upgraded to the latest build of 5.0 but it didn't help.

 

Anyway, if you still check this thread, I'm curious to know if I should be looking for a hardware fix now...