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Pass through of SATA Optical drive unreliable in the extreme


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Hi,

 

I am evaluating unraid for my personal use at home.

 

My intention is to run my various services in docker images where possible and have a couple of VMs that I can run occasionally when i need to do other things.

 

One of the tasks I want to do int  VM is to be able to do backup media ripping, cd, dvd, blu ray inc UHD 4K HDR.  (My 3 year old is not very forgiving of physical media)

 

Booting win10 with the same hardware outside of unraid works faultlessly,

 

By following the various guides I seem to be able to get the pass thru of my ASUS BC12D2HT to a win10 VM in UNRAID work, but only for one boot.

 

The only way to get it to work is to copy the xml from the last VM to a new custom vm, change the UID and VM name and create a new one.

 

Also the SCSI address of the drive seems to jump around over time when unraid is fully restarted.  

 

So far I have seen it ar 2:0:0:0, 4:0:0:0, 5:0:0:0, 6:0:0:0 and 8:0:0:0.   This means I have to adapt the XML and move to a new vm again.

 

Is there any way to make this reliable and consistent?

 

Running all my services in docker under unraid is really attractive, but not if I have to shut it down and start replugging drives when I need to do specific tasks.

 

Please help

 

Jeff

 

 

 

 

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Hi Jeff.

 

Need diagnostics. Cannot diagnose without diagnostics. Tools -> Diagnostics -> download the zip file and attach.

 

Also your description of the problem is confusing.

  • You started talking about VM that for some reasons only works in 1 boot (which boot? unRAID boot? VM boot?) based on certain guides (which guide?).
  • You then said "Running all my services in docker under unraid is really attractive, but not if I have to shut it down and start replugging drives when I need to do specific tasks." - unRAID docker and VM are two entirely different thing.
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Hi Jeff,

 

sorry, I can´t help you with pass through of BD device in your VM. I´m sure there is a docker named makemkv, this is one of my future projects in my backuptower. A few years ago I tinkered around with vortexbox, a Fedora-Linux based ripper using makemkv. Worked like a charm. So my suggestion is, try the docker with makemkv or try a VM with vortexbox.

 

https://wiki.vortexbox.org/available_images

 

I know, the last image is 3 years old. But give it a try.

 

http://makemkv.com/

 

Hope, you like this suggestion.

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