January 20, 200917 yr Seems like my unraid box hangs / locks up during large file transfers. Seems to be a network issue but I am not sure. Attached is my syslog. Hopefully someone can steer me in the right direction. On a side note, I noticed that the Like Technology no longer lists the 1.5TB drive as a supported drives. I currently have 7 1.5TB with another 9 on order. Anyone out there with 16 1.5TB drives and working? I hope my issue is not related to issues with these drives. I was able to transfer about 400GB worth of data without any problems. Only after adding a PCI SATA card am I experiencing these problems (Nothing hooked up to the PCI Sata card at this time.)
January 20, 200917 yr Unfortunately there have been many issues with 1.5TB drives documented in detail in various posts. Worth searching and spending 10 minutes reading. I believe one of the issues was the drives just stalling which describes the symptoms fo your problem
January 20, 200917 yr Author I started a parity check and it seems to run through without a hitch. System only seems to hang on file transfers. The system is not accessible via the network. But the console seems to be fine and I was able to copy over my log file. I even tried to transfer a file during a parity check. The transfer aborted and the system became unreachable - but the activity on the drives lights seems to say the parity check is still running.
January 20, 200917 yr running to client but from your syslog it looks like somehting is very wrong with your network card
January 20, 200917 yr Author Ok - I switched from the onboard nic card to a PCI Netgear GA311. Everything seems to be working fine. I just find it so strange that the onboard nic would die like that. Probably first board I have had where I ran into this issue. Will running everything off the PCI Gigabit card slow anything down? I am trying to decide if I need to RMA the motherboard or just stick with the PCI card. If I installed two of the Netgear cards could Unraid support teaming? Are there any other ways to test the onboard NIC?
January 21, 200917 yr Ok - I switched from the onboard nic card to a PCI Netgear GA311. Everything seems to be working fine. I just find it so strange that the onboard nic would die like that. Probably first board I have had where I ran into this issue. Will running everything off the PCI Gigabit card slow anything down? I am trying to decide if I need to RMA the motherboard or just stick with the PCI card. If I installed two of the Netgear cards could Unraid support teaming? Are there any other ways to test the onboard NIC? The PCI gigabit card shares its bandwidth with the PCI bus. If you have drives (more than 1 or 2) on the PCI bus, and they are being accessed at the same time you are reading or writing data to the array for your workstations, the PCI bus could get saturated and become a bottleneck (especially during a parity check!). But in normal, single drive access scenarios, even with lots of drives on the PCI bus, this should not happen. I am not a network expert. The log does show one network error shortly after bootup. I occasionally get network hiccups in my syslog, but the internal mechanisms of Linux have always kicked in to reset the link or whatever and have not been an observable problem. I do not know how you might be able to better diagnose your apprarent issue with the onboard NIC, if indeed it is a hardware problem. Maybe one of the experts may have some ideas. Have you been running successfully with the onboard NIC? If so, for how long? Did you recently upgrade the unRAID version? If so, does it coincide with the NIC problems? Give some history and maybe we can figure out something.
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