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  1. sweet as. fingers crossed. I will be double and triple checking the parity drive to make sure of course. I'll let you know.
  2. What do you mean put them in the correct logical slots? Does the order of the data drives matter or not? Your initial reply suggested that it didn't (as long as you don't assign a data drive to parity), however your second reply kind of suggests that it does. I'm still a bit confused. My parity drive is a WD Black and the others are Greens, so the serial number will be obviously different. If I assign the parity drive to the parity slot and the data drives to the data slot, is there anything else that needs doing?
  3. everything boots fine except there is no array or shares pre defined. So you are saying I can just add all the disks to the array in whatever order and it'll all be fine? as long as I get the parity disk assigned correctly?
  4. Hi folks, UnRaid has been running rock solid for me for ages but then I started having some network issues, couldn't see the tower over the network. So, I've been trying to get it working and have gotten to the point of doing a new install with the latest version (been running 4.7 since 2012). I tried copying over the config files as it said in the UnRaid manual but my array isn't showing at all. I can see the disks if I try to add them manually but if I add them in the wrong order, I have a suspicion it will screw everything up. I had a spreadsheet with all the drive numbers and positions in it but for the life of me I can't find the damned thing. It's driving me nuts. Anyway, the instructions say that if I copy my config folder over that the array details and shares will show up but they aren't. Can anyone give me any suggestions? Cheers in advance
  5. I'll try that, it's every single directory. Some of them are largish but nothing that would have created a problem, I would have thought. I'll let you know how it goes.
  6. All of the stuff on my server has been individually named by me, rather than being autonamed by say, a camera or whatever. So I am going to try and run that clonespy thingy and see what happens. What's the best way to get it to actually scan all the discs, cause the share I have just makes it look like a single drive to my windows boxes.
  7. Ok, no, I am not running cache dirs (can you point me to the instructions for setting that up) and also I don't have the display in explorer as being thumbnails, I just have it as details listing. Or am I completely off track and need to change another setting?
  8. As I was getting my syslog together for my other problem I noticed a lot of duplicate file entries but when I browsed through the disks using the File Browser in the unraid browser management console, it would only appear as having one copy of each of those files and they were all appearing as duplicates on disk 11 but I couldn't see what they were duplicates of. I hope that's clear but basically I was wondering if there was an easy way to take care of these duplicates and if there's no short and simple way (I would rather short just cause it's easier :-P) what is the long way to do find which duplicates are on which disks etc. and take care of them? Thanks in advance syslog_16092012.txt
  9. Hi guys, I did a search and read through a bunch of directory listing topics and none of them were quite the problem I am experiencing. So what's happening is this, I spin up all the drives by click the Spin Up button on the Unraid Main browser window and then go about managing all my files on my server. When I click on a directory, it can take anywhere up to a minute for the directory listing to appear. When explorer is waiting (in Windows 7) it has the green progress indicator moving across the directory location bar. I don't think this used to happen but it's been happening for a while now and I have only just gotten round to being fed up with it and posting here. I've included my system log since the beginning of the month, if more data is required, happy to provide it. If it's not a fault, is there some way that I can speed it all up? Thanks in advance syslog_16092012.txt
  10. It was kind of weird, I decided to go from scratch and format it usb (after backing it up) and set it up as a fresh installation. It worked no problems. So, I copied my old 4.7 installation and then upgraded it to the latest version 5 rc and then did ran the 'make bootable' bat file and it's working fine. Of course, I had just rebuilt the parity before I had these issues and of course now it's working again, it's back to the old one and I need to redo the parity drive but it's no worries. Of course, I am still having the issues with the Unraid Main window not showing but that's something else altogether. It showed up for me to reassign the parity drive but now it won't show and if it happens the same as last time then it won't show up after parity is finished calculated.
  11. Update: When I went back to my old configuration of unraid (my old previously working 4.7 version) it does the same thing. Any suggestions?
  12. Hey folks, having another weird issue. Upgraded to rc5-r8618 and got through upgrading my parity drive (to a WD Green 3Tb drive). Got through rebuilding parity, then Unraid Main stopped working. Tried some of the solutions found in the forum but nothing worked. I couldn't find the power down button so I just switched it off (yes I know, I forgot about the powerdown command from telnet). Now when I boot up, it goes through all the normal boot up stuff but then gets to a black screen with just a cursor blinking in the top left hand corner and doesn't do anything further. When this has happened in the past, a reboot would sort it out but it hasn't in this case. I also copied all my old 4.7 files back onto the drive and just replaced the bzimage and bzroot files (as per the upgrade instructions) but still no luck on booting up. I will be trying to just restore to my old config (I haven't formatted the old parity drive as yet, wanted to get everything working 100% before I did so) in 4.7 to see if that will boot up. My server config is as follows: Mobo: SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O CPU: Intel i3 540 Clarkdale (the i3 530 and i3 550 are fine too, choose based on price and availability) RAM: Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 PSU: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W Case: Antec 1200 Hot Swap Drive Bays: Norco SS-500 x 4 SATA Expansion Cards: Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8-Port SAS/SATA Add-on Card x 2 Drives: 10xWD Green 2Tb, 1xWD Black 2TB (old parity drive), 1xGreen 3Tb (new parity drive) I am not sure where to find the syslog, happy to attach it but given that it's not booting would it be of any use? If you need further info, let me know what and I'll get it right away. Thanks in advance
  13. Did you do all the things mentioned in the other thread? Also, there is a google link with information about needing to disable PATA for the SATA drives etc.
  14. Thanks guys, all upgraded and whatnot. Parity rebuild on the 3Tb running now. Have kept the old parity drive out of the array till I am 100% up and running with the new drive but it all looks peachy so far. Thanks again for the help PS: How do I mark the thread solved?
  15. No worries, wasn't aware. I copied one of Raj's designs: 20 Drive Beast (tower) Mobo: SUPERMICRO MBD-X8SIL-F-O CPU: Intel i3 540 Clarkdale (the i3 530 and i3 550 are fine too, choose based on price and availability) RAM: Kingston 4GB DDR3 1333 PSU: CORSAIR Enthusiast Series TX650 V2 650W Case: Antec 1200 Hot Swap Drive Bays: Norco SS-500 x 4 SATA Expansion Cards: Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 8-Port SAS/SATA Add-on Card x 2 Cables: 0.5m 30AWG Internal Mini SAS 36pin (SFF-8087) Male w/ Latch to SATA 7pin Female (x4) Forward Breakout Cable x 4 No SATA Cables needed (6 included with motherboard) Hard Drives: Has 2Tb WD Caviar Green Drives, 1 Caviar Black 2Tb and now a Caviar Green 3Tb