Great catch Joe.  Thank you.  I won't be able to update it and do another preclear until I return from out of town (tomorrow).

 

I guess this does have me wondering though, could the preclear succeed without ACHI on this drive?  If so, I assume I wouldn't need to do it again, would I?  

You would not need to do it again.  

 

Joe L.

 

This looks like good news to me.  They both finished and appear to have successfully been precleared.  I think this pretty much spells out there are certainly data issues with the nForce2 motherboards or at least the one I had (ASUS AN78X).  I have much greater confidence in this server (budget build) now.  See attached screenshot for details.

You have quite a few read errors on your Samsung drive...the WD looks fine though.  Post your syslog as it will contain the full SMART reports for both drives.

You have quite a few read errors on your Samsung drive...the WD looks fine though.  Post your syslog as it will contain the full SMART reports for both drives.

ALL drives have raw read errors.  Some report them in the smart report others do not.  Note that the "normalized" value of 100 is unchanged.

 

Joe L.

[i think this pretty much spells out there are certainly data issues with the nForce2 motherboards or at least the one I had (ASUS AN78X).  I have much greater confidence in this server (budget build) now.  See attached screenshot for details.

Arn't you glad you did the pre-clear?

 

The flaky motherboard, for whatever reason, would only be a constant headache.  I can only imagine how many were sold with the same problems and poor Microsoft got the blame for the eventual crashes and data corruption.

Arn't you glad you did the pre-clear?

 

I am!  Thanks again!

You have one of your disk controllers set in your BIOS to emulate an IDE drive in an legacy mode.  It is why the disk is showing as /dev/hdb instead of /dev/sdX.

 

That emulation of an old master/slave controller in the BIOS is there so the motherboard can boot older Windows operating systems.  They have no SATA drivers and therefore would not be able to boot if they did not (think they) see an IDE hard disk.

 

We have no need for that kind of IDE emulation, and in fact, it might be causing the slower performance.  You should set the BIOS to ACHI mode for the SATA disk controllers.

 

I find one thing strange when I do this.  After setting ACHI in the BIOS it still displays each drive in the BIOS as IDE.  However, when I go to configure the drives in unraid they display just fine as sda, sdb, etc..  I've rebooted and the BIOS continues to reflect the same information.  Rajheel, if you happen to read this, do your drives reflect IDE or SATA in the bios?  I'm using the same motherboard from the budget build (Biostar A760G).

There is also the screen program which lets you run sessions and willfully disconnect and reconnect on demand.

 

What is the name of the screen program that will let me run multiple session and willfully disconnect and reconnect on demand?

 

Thanks,

Kerry

There is also the screen program which lets you run sessions and willfully disconnect and reconnect on demand.

 

What is the name of the screen program that will let me run multiple session and willfully disconnect and reconnect on demand?

 

Thanks,

Kerry

 

screen. 

 

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=UnRAID_Add_Ons#screen_.28screen_manager_with_VT100.2FANSI_terminal_emulation.29

 

You can install it using unMenu if you have that installed.

There is also the screen program which lets you run sessions and willfully disconnect and reconnect on demand.

What is the name of the screen program that will let me run multiple session and willfully disconnect and reconnect on demand?

 

This is like that comedy skit...   Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third.

 

What is is a provider of brief descriptions of system commands.

Screen is the screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation.

 

# whatis whatis
whatis []            (1)  - search the whatis database for complete words
# whatis screen
screen []            (1)  - screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation