August 9, 201015 yr Hi, When i want to replace the motherboard and the cpu in lets say a year. How will unRAID react? Is this possible?
August 9, 201015 yr As long as you choose a well supported board then the only thing you might need to do is tell unraid which controller the disks are connected to. Basically motherboard upgrade is easy if you choose the right board.
August 9, 201015 yr Take a screen shot of your "devices" page on your existing motherboard, then, after changing use the "devices" page to put the drives back in their respective slots in the array, then just press "Start" It should be very simple... Joe L.
August 9, 201015 yr I'm now on my third unRAID motherboard. The first one was a Gigabyte board that I replaced due to the HPA issue. The second one was the Biostar A760G M2+ (the Budget Box board) which I loved dearly (and still have if anyone wants to buy it). The latest is the Asus P5BV-M which has two PCIe x8 slots which allows me to go up to 20 drives. Each time all I had to do was tell unRAID which drives corresponded to which disks as Joe L. described. As long as you use compatible hardware, unRAID is very hardware independent. I have also replaced the CPU I think three or four times. Again, same procedure, just as easy.
August 9, 201015 yr Take a screen shot of your "devices" page on your existing motherboard, then, after changing use the "devices" page to put the drives back in their respective slots in the array, then just press "Start" It should be very simple... Joe L. We should probably come up with a plugin that does this on every boot/shutdown as a .txt file. Just to be safe. I think I grabbed some code once before from unmenu ala original. to do this into the syslog.
August 9, 201015 yr Take a screen shot of your "devices" page on your existing motherboard, then, after changing use the "devices" page to put the drives back in their respective slots in the array, then just press "Start" It should be very simple... Joe L. We should probably come up with a plugin that does this on every boot/shutdown as a .txt file. Just to be safe. I think I grabbed some code once before from unmenu ala original. to do this into the syslog. Something like this will take care of it on the older versions of unRAID pre 5.X. If you put it in your "go" script you'll need to make sure the array is on-line before running it, so put a sleep 10 before it. wget localhost/devices.htm -q -O - | sed -n "/Disk devices/,/Stopped/p" | grep -v "tr>" | sed "s/<[^<]*>//g" > /boot/devices.txt On the 5.0beta1 release, this line will do it: wget localhost/Settings/DiskDevices -q -O - | sed -n "/settings/,/button/p" | grep -v "tr>" | sed "s/<[^<]*>//g" > /boot/devices.txt (the settings page has a different URL, and the page lines I use to delimit the content slightly different.) Have Fun.
August 10, 201015 yr Author Hi, People your fast with your replies. So it is easy to switch from hardware. Strong point. I always find this a pain in the *** with Microsoft products. Yeah you have to buy the retail version... I want to convert my old Windows Home Server to a unRAID server. I want to do this step by step because of the finance, but i want to do it good. I want to build a unRAID box what can hold 20 drives. Of course i need the help of you! We should probably come up with a plugin that does this on every boot/shutdown as a .txt file. Just to be safe. You guys have always great ideas.
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