Hi, I recently built my first unRAID server with 3x2TB disks to test things out, before I move on to buy the license and adding another 3 disks. I use unRAID OS 5.0.2, and did 3 cycles of preclear to each drive.

 

- The first thing is that my M/B (Foxconn G31MXP-K) isn't recognized as true sata. I look at "dmesg|grep ata" and it seems that my disks are in sata udma/133 mode. Is this going to be a problem? And is there a way to fix it?

(Note: The transfer speed from Windows is ~20MB/s. When I start the array without parity disk, it's transferring at 80-85 MB/s, which is the network limitation. The preclear write speed was ~150MB/s)

 

 

- Secondly, the user shares which I created don't have the option for private security. It is grayed and I can't select it. This is very important to me, because I don't wan't others to have access to my files, even read-only. I tried to be in secure mode and hidden instead, but then there is no way to log in other than guest in Windows or MAC, so I can't write anything..

 

 

- And lastly, when I tried to move files from my MAC (I enabled AFP in user shares), the speed drops until it hits zero KB/s, and then the connection hangs and the MAC too, so I have to do a reset.. This is happening more when I try to transfer big files (e.g. a 10+ GB video file, it hangs at around 5-6 GB).

 

 

Is there any solution to these problems? Thank you!

Welcome onboard!

 

1. Go to motherboard BIOS and set the SATA ports to AHCI.

 

2. Private shares are available in the paid version of unRAID only (pro or plus license).

 

3. no idea...

 

Thank you for your response!

 

1) There isn't any AHCI option for the SATA. The only thing I found is, that there are Enhanced, Compatible, SATA-only(legacy) modes, and that the SATA ports are divided by channels. I can see that SATA ports 1,3 belong to IDE channel 2 (as master/slave), and ports 2,4 to IDE channel 3 (as master/slave also). IDE Channel 1 is probably the physical IDE connector.. I set for SATA Enhanced mode, and I add the 2 DATA drives to IDE channel 2 (sata ports 1,3) and the parity drive to IDE channel 3 (sata port 2).

 

2) I had no idea about that, thanks for the clarification.

 

 

3) I also managed to disable parity disk, and connect via SMB. Same behaviour. I also add the smb-exra.conf with (host msdfs = No) and (msdfs root = No) in flash:\config and nothing changed...

1. What Mac OS version?

2. Are you trying to use your unRAID server for TimeMAchine?

(If you are not using UNRAID for TimeMachine, try turning OFF the AFP for all shares...(sort of depends on your OS X version, but SMB will likely work fine without AFP) (and if you ARE running TimeMachine to the UNRAID server, there's an existing thread with tips))

 

 

Check you board vendor for proper settings.

Have you flashed the latest BIOS for your board?

I would go with the SATA only setting.

If your drives are mounted as sdx then youre good.

 

Yes they are mounted as sdx. I probably don't going to use time machine to this box, but I want live shares' mounting which AFP offers to use for iTunes and iPhoto/Picasa libraries.. I'm using Mac OS Mavericks (10.9). I don't think the problem with connection hanging is related to the enabled AFP protocol. I tried SMB too, and there is the same behaviour. Something that I suspect is the RAM. When I move a big file I see at the unMenu that the RAM is getting full. And when the connection hangs, it stays full!! Even if I transfer a smaller file (2-3 GB) the RAM gets full and when the transfer completes, from the 2GB ram, only 1GB is available. When I do a reboot, the free RAM is around 1.7GB. So something stays in there while transferring, and causes problems..

Yes they are mounted as sdx. I probably don't going to use time machine to this box, but I want live shares' mounting which AFP offers to use for iTunes and iPhoto/Picasa libraries.. I'm using Mac OS Mavericks (10.9). I don't thing the problem with connection hanging is related to the enabled AFP protocol. I tried SMB too, and there is the same behaviour. Something that I suspect is the RAM. When I move a big file I see at the unMenu that the RAM is getting full. And when the connection hangs, it stays full!! Even if I transfer a smaller file (2-3 GB) the RAM gets full and when the transfer completes, from the 2GB ram, only 1GB is available. When I do a reboot, the free RAM is around 1.7GB. So something stays in there while transferring, and causes problems..

 

No. RAM is used for disk caching and will be freed as needed. Attach a syslog that includes a failed transfer..

I disabled AFP completely. For two weeks now it works with SMB only very well without any speed drops.. So I assume, the problem is when AFP is enabled. I manage to create an AppleScript to connect to the shares on boot. So the problem solved for me. If the AFP could work well though, this would be excelsior!

I disabled AFP completely. For two weeks now it works with SMB only very well without any speed drops.. So I assume, the problem is when AFP is enabled. I manage to create an AppleScript to connect to the shares on boot. So the problem solved for me. If the AFP could work well though, this would be excelsior!

If you ever replace your MB with one that incorporates true SATA, you'll find that AFP works fine with unRAID, and especially after 5.0.3.

 

Unless you're trying to network your Mavericks machine to older Macs, I wouldn't worry about it. Apple is dropping AFP and moving to Samba.

 

Mavericks only requires AFP for TimeMachine...and even that last bit of AFP will be gone one day.