December 18, 20187 yr Community Expert 1 minute ago, gnollo said: and wait a couple of hours, Couple of minutes is enough to reset CMOS. 1 minute ago, gnollo said: What other settings are important for me to save in the BIOS to get the best out of Unraid? Besides AHCI, boot order, make sure VT-x is enable if you're using VMs and that should be it.
December 18, 20187 yr Author Reset CMOS, back up and running, replacing the drive with a new one and rebuilding, instead of wiping the old one in case anything goes wrong with the rebuild
December 19, 20187 yr Author https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LSI-9211-8i-Internal-SAS-SATA-6Gbps-8-Ports-HBA-PCI-E-RAID-Controller-Card-/142280748330?_trksid=p2349526.m4383.l4275.c1 It doesn't mention the "IT mode", is that something I can change myself once I bought the card?
December 19, 20187 yr Author https://nguvu.org/freenas/Convert-LSI-HBA-card-to-IT-mode/ So I can just follow this procedure to flash it once I have received it, any other suggestions regarding this card?
December 19, 20187 yr Author Event: unRAID Parity sync / Data rebuild Subject: Notice [TOWER] - Parity sync / Data rebuild finished (0 errors) Description: Duration: 16 hours, 19 minutes, 36 seconds. Average speed: 136.1 MB/s Importance: normal Diagnostics attached after it finished tower-diagnostics-20181219-1529.zip
December 19, 20187 yr Community Expert Rebuild went fine, couple of ATA errors on the Jmicron controller, that's kind of expected since they are not the best. As for the LSI, it can be flashed to IT mode if it comes with RAID mode, I prefer buying used server pulls instead of new from China, less likely to get a fake.
December 19, 20187 yr Author 11 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: Rebuild went fine, couple of ATA errors on the Jmicron controller, that's kind of expected since they are not the best. As for the LSI, it can be flashed to IT mode if it comes with RAID mode, I prefer buying used server pulls instead of new from China, less likely to get a fake. Thanks for the advice, I will look for second hand instead then. Is the Jmicron controller a motherboard component?
December 19, 20187 yr Community Expert 3 minutes ago, gnollo said: Is the Jmicron controller a motherboard component? Yes, they are the 2 onboard purple SATA ports, swap the drives there to the LSI when you get it.
December 20, 20187 yr Author on a different note, tried to update the server software, I get this message boot device "shows 137044 free but upgrade needs 179648 plugin: run failed: /bin/bash retval: 1" Any suggestions on how to free space? Flash disk size is 509Mb
December 20, 20187 yr Community Expert 1 hour ago, gnollo said: on a different note, tried to update the server software, I get this message boot device "shows 137044 free but upgrade needs 179648 plugin: run failed: /bin/bash retval: 1" Any suggestions on how to free space? Flash disk size is 509Mb You might have to do the manual method of upgrading. Typically this is just replacing all bz* files in top level of flash with those from download.
December 24, 20187 yr Author On 12/19/2018 at 3:58 PM, johnnie.black said: Yes, they are the 2 onboard purple SATA ports, swap the drives there to the LSI when you get it. LSI card in, disks swapped to it. tower-diagnostics-20181224-2153.zip
December 25, 20187 yr Community Expert Everything looks fine, though not much to see since diags are after rebooting, but only worth posting new ones if you have some issue.
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