Hello,

 

I have 5.0-beta6a and I'm ready to upgrade to take advantage of 4T hard drive.

 

My problem is I'm not sure if the following is the correct version (from lime-technology => download tab)

 

 

2013-12-07    unRAIDServer-5.0.4-i386.zip

 

 

This is the latest that I should download and upgrade from 5.0-beta6a?

 

thanks

Yes.  5.0.4 is the latest.

Be sure to read the readme.txt files and the notes in this link:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30657.0

 

 

 

Version 5.0.x has been very stable, with very few issues...the increments have been small and typically add stuff requested by specific situations/users.

You can install directly 5.0.4 , its worth reading the full release notes and the forum announcements for each of the increments.

 

 

There are a few changes in the released versions that could be a surprise:

change in share permissions for root versus other users

Mac OS X changes to tower-AFP and tower-SMB

simplefeatures no longer works and should be removed.

...and some others that escape me.

 

 

Tom's first posting for each release announcement is worth reading:

 

 

5.0.0 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=29096.0

5.0.1 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30209.0

5.0.2 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30333.0

5.0.3 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30452.0

5.0.4 http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=30657.0

Thank you Dale

OK

 

I seem to have successfully upgraded to 5.0.4 from 5.0-beta6a

 

Everything seem to went by the book. The array is up and operational.

 

One more question:

 

Will 5.0.4 accept 4T hardrive ?

 

Thanks

 

 

 

 

OK

 

I seem to have successfully upgraded to 5.0.4 from 5.0-beta6a

 

Everything seem to went by the book. The array is up and operational.

 

One more question:

 

Will 5.0.4 accept 4T hardrive ?

 

Thanks7

 

any version after beta7

Will 5.0.4 accept 4T hardrive ?

I have 3TB drives with no problem.

There are posts that describe others as using 4TB.

There are some issues with older motherboards (I think it was), but if your hardware supports drives greater than 2.2 TB you should be fine.

 

My motherboard is Biostar A7703E and the SATA connector have SATA2 label on it.

will it support 4T ?

 

Thanks

 

My motherboard is Biostar A7703E and the SATA connector have SATA2 label on it.

will it support 4T ?

 

Thanks

I assume you meant the A7730E.  I think this uses the AM3 socket, which is a bit older. I'm not familiar with that board.

Compatibility is driven by the BIOS and not by SATA 2.

I don't see a clear answer on the Biostar site. What they quote is for Intel chips:

Why my system can only support 2TB disk space for the 3TB hard drive?Currently only UEFI BIOS motherboard (P67/H67/H61 chipset) with Windows 7/Vista 64 bit O.S. will be able to support 3TB hard drive in full 3TB size.

 

Please see following FAQ for more information.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946557/en-us

 

http://www.hitachigst.com/support/index-files/general-faqs-index

And the manual can not be downloaded over the internet.

 

 

Perhaps someone else knows how to tell?

You could boot up with a different USB flash drive and the free version of unRAID 5.0.4 with a drive greater than 2.2TB and see if the full size of the drive is recognized.  If you see the full drive then your MB will work with drives > 2.2TB.  If you only see 2.2TB then it doesn't.  If you see somewhere that your MB supports 64bit LBA drive addressing then it should work with unRAID even if it doesn't allow booting from a drive > 2.2TB.  That is what is usually meant by manufacturers when they say that they don't support > 2.2TB drives.  They will not boot from the > 2.2TB drive but it often/usually supports the drive as a data drive.

Thank you Dale,

Thank you Bob,

 

 

 

bobbintb: "any version after beta7"

 

Sorry,

I only install 5.0-beta6a originally and then upgrade it to 5.0.4

 

but if you mean if 5.0-beta7 will upgrade to 5.0.a then I'm guessing it would too.