NASLite Network Attached Storage

Ok I will test this now. Will alter the .cfg file as noted.

My motherboard is a genuine Intel D850GB:

http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d850gb/

Hope that helps.

BTW,

One thing I keep on coming across is that there are such thing as fake RAID card, which uses the Silicon Image chipset. These don't seem to give proper raid performance or even supported properly by many flavours of Linux. I am not sure if the Adaptec 2410SA is such a card, but I think it uses the SI3114 chip?

Here is the Adaptec link: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/raid/sata/AAR-2410SA/

I have updated the BIOS to r8209 (latest) btw, unfortunately it didn't solve the problem.

Rest assured that the Adaptec 2410SA (and 2610SA, 2810SA and 21610SA) card is most definitely a true hardware RAID card.

Ok, some progress, finally.

After adding what Tony suggested;

LABEL NASLite
KERNEL NASLite.01
APPEND rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet noapic
DISPLAY naslite.msg

Speeds now are MUCH better. Copying a 4GB file is now 3 minutes, instead of the 27 minutes before, Everything is the same, client, file copied, network.

However, I do notice 'pause periods' in the copy process, where my copy window would just 'hang' and the copy counter is stuck to say 220MB, for around 5 secs instead of increasing continuously... and this happen periodically throughout the copy process.

Well, it's a small problem, and I am glad we are getting somewhere, and to be able to copy 4Gb in 3 mins, which is roughly 22-25MB/sec on average is certainly a big improvement over 4MB/sec.

In any case, I have also done a Current Network Traffic sampling via Telnet, in NASLite while the client was copying:

CURRENT NETWORK TRAFFIC

Sampling ...

101735 packets sampled in 5 seconds
Traffic average for eth0

rx 26276.84 kB/s 18006 packets/s
tx 155.47 kB/s 2340 packets/s

Currently, this is formatted in the Adaptec Card as single volumes. I will try to format them as RAID0 to see if it is better.

Here are my syslog:

System Message Log:

Jun 20 23:10:50 [3] klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2008.07.26-02:54+0000)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Linux version 2.4.37.NASLite (root@tzt) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 Mon Jan 12 23:05:48 EST 2009
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffc0000 (usable)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000001ffc0000 - 000000001fff8000 (ACPI data)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000001fff8000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [3] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [3] 511MB LOWMEM available.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] On node 0 totalpages: 131008
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] zone(0): 4096 pages.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] zone(1): 126912 pages.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] zone(2): 0 pages.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000ff980
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: RSDT (v001 D850GB G285010A 0x20011008 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x1fff0000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: FADT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x20011008 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x1fff1000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: MADT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x20011008 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x1ffe2e67
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: SSDT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x1ffe2ecf
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: DSDT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x00000002 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) APIC version 20
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet noapic BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Found and enabled local APIC!
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Initializing CPU#0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Detected 1794.605 MHz processor.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Calibrating delay loop. 3578.26 BogoMIPS
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Memory: 509492k/524032k available (2326k kernel code, 14152k reserved, 684k data, 560k init, 0k highmem)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1800MHz stepping 0a
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] calibrating APIC timer .
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] . CPU clock speed is 1794.6506 MHz.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] . host bus clock speed is 99.7025 MHz.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] cpu: 0, clocks: 997025, slice: 498512
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] CPU0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Transparent bridge - PCI device 8086:244e
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] >ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 *15)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 *10 11 12 14 15)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 *6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.MDET] (Node dfbb1ac0), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.MEM_._CRS] (Node dfbae980), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.MEM_._CRS] (Node dfbae980), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 9
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 15
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 6
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 11
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 10
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Initializing RT netlink socket
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Starting kswapd
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ACPI: Processor [CPU2] (supports C1)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] FW Version=$Version$
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] sk98lin: No adapter found.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] eth0: RTL8169 at 0xe0808c00, 00:18:e7:07:d2:d6, IRQ 10
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ICH2: chipset revision 4
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] hda: SONY CD-RW CRX300E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] hda: attached ide-cdrom driver.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jan 12 2009 23:06:00)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] AAC0: kernel 4.2.4 build 8209
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] AAC0: monitor 4.2.4 build 8209
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] AAC0: bios 4.2.0 build 8209
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] AAC0: serial 104bcffafaf001
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] scsi1 : aacraid
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: BinMediaA Rev: V1.0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: BinMediaB Rev: V1.0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [3] megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] llers
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] libata version 1.20 loaded.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi1, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] SCSI device sda: 1953457408 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000170 MB)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Partition check:
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] p1
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] SCSI device sdb: 1953457408 512-byte hdwr sectors (1000170 MB)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Jun 20 23:10:50 [5] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef40, IRQ 9
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 6
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Jun 20 23:10:50 [3] RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] <6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 2
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] .<6>scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Vendor: Sony Model: Storage Media Rev: 0100
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] .Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] SCSI device sdc: 4062208 512-byte hdwr sectors (2080 MB)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] sdc: Write Protect is off
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jun 20 23:10:50 [1] USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] .<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-2, assigned address 2
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] .<3>usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] <6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-2, assigned address 3
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] .<3>usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] <6>Freeing initrd memory: 4137k freed
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Mounted devfs on /dev
Jun 20 23:10:50 [2] Freeing unused kernel memory: 560k freed
Jun 20 23:10:50 [5] ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,1)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [5] ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,17)
Jun 20 23:10:50 [5] ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,33)

System message priority, in ascending order, is as follows: [1] - DEBUG, [2] - INFO, [3] - NOTICE, [4] - WARNING, [5] - ERROR, [6] - CRITICAL, [7] - ALERT, [8] - EMERGENCY. The priority defines the severity of the message where CRITICAL, ALERT and EMERGENCY may warrant immediate attention.


I do notice that the error is still there. Is this normal?

Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.MDET] (Node dfbb1ac0), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.MEM_._CRS] (Node dfbae980), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 20 23:10:50 [4] ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.MEM_._CRS] (Node dfbae980), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT

Anything else I can add or tweak to enable achieving 40-50MB/sec with this setup, or is this is simply not possible without me adding new hardware?

Thanks.

Well done - the pauses are due to RAM buffers filling up then flushing to disk. Mine does this as well.

Oh! This is the 64MB that this card comes with? BTW, what are your speeds? Do you have any on 2 drive RAID0?

Now that you have the first issue addressed tray moving the cards in the PCI slots again. IRQs are a pain and may be some of the cause of the pauses.

That card you have is indeed a hardware RAID card. FYI, the interface chipset you refer to is used in a number of hardware RAID cards. The are used for the drive interface to the processor on the card, why reinvent the wheel. I have a 16 channel SATA to FC-AL hardware RAID card that uses a similar setup.

Have you flashed the BIOS on the Intel MB yet.

Don't let Ralph turn you off on NL, at times he can get pissy but once reined in he very helpful and a good guy.

Mike

No - it's the amount of RAM in the server - it seems to allocate a lot of it to incoming data buffers when you send a lot of data. This fills up and requires to be periodically flushed.

I transfer 100s of Gigabytes at a time and there are no pauses. The buffers should be read out at the rate the HDA can write information with no pauses. If there are pauses, there is an issue.

The 64MB of memory on the card is used by the RAID engine as both working RAM and buffer. The RAID engine stores commands in the Que and read/writes them out to the HDDs when it is best suited. This has been done with SCSI for decades and only recently with SATA. This is why for many years that SCSI performed very well in heavy transactional applications. This has largely been negated with integration of these same basic features in SATA drives and intelligent SATA controllers.

Mike

If your copying from Mac OS X, and using the finder to do the copies, you will see some pauses. This is an issue with the finder, there's other posts here on the topic.

Worlds a perfect mirror eh Mike

I can and have been one of the biggest assholes here a time or two. You get no argument from me on your point. LOL

Just keep up the good work and support of the community and me and I bet a whole lot of others here will do our best to cover yours and Tony's backs.

Mike

Hi again,

Since the single volume tests has been decently successful with around 26MB/sec transfer speed over gigabit ethernet, I now tried the speeds over RAID0. To help reduce the IRQ issues even further, I removed the ASUS Voodoo3 card from the PC, as my final intention is to run the PC as a headless appliance.

I formatted the drives again inside the Adaptec 2410SA BIOS, into a RAID0 volume (1.8TB), Once done, powered down the machine, took out the video card, and rebooted the NASLite machine.

Now, as you guys suggested, I have;

1. Flashed my Adaptec RAID to the latest firmware r8209. The Intel mobo firmware is already the latest as per Intel's site.
2. I tested copying over 3 protocols, AFP, SMB and FTP. It's an MKV file, 4.01GB size.
3. I used the same OSX machine as client, same network, same file for all the tests.
4. For FTP, I used Transmit (from Panic software) as a client, and the OSX Finder (Leopard 10.5.7) for SMB and AFP.
5. For all tests, I am logged in to NASLite via Terminal console in OSX, to utilize the Network Sample rate tool.
6. for all tests, Activity Monitor in OSX is open to check the Peak MB/sec transfers over the network. Client and server are the only machines connected to the switch to ensure no contamination of network activity from other machines. Client machine only has Finder and standard OSX Leopard 10.5.7 running.

Here are the results:

AFP: Copied in 2.49 mins, at an average of 27MB/sec, with peak of 34MB/sec. Copy speeds greatly fluctuates from 15MB-34MB/sec. Screen dump from NASLite 'Sample Current Traffic:

CURRENT NETWORK TRAFFIC

Sampling ...

103497 packets sampled in 5 seconds
Traffic average for eth0

rx 26917.91 kB/s 18460 packets/s
tx 149.04 kB/s 2239 packets/s

FTP: Copied in 1.53 mins, at an average of 42MB/sec, with a peak of 48MB/sec. Copy speeds ranges from 38MB-48MB/sec. Screen dump from NASLite 'Sample Current Traffic:

CURRENT NETWORK TRAFFIC

Sampling ...

198198 packets sampled in 5 seconds
Traffic average for eth0

rx 47026.93 kB/s 31809 packets/s
tx 504.71 kB/s 7830 packets/s


SMB: Now, with SMB, I do not understand why, but I am UNABLE to connect to the NASLite box form the Mac. I can see that the share has been exported, it does appear in finder, but when I try to connect, it asks for password, and when selecting GUEST, it gives me this error: "Connection Failed. This server does not allow Guest connections." I thought that NASLite does not have any ACLs and is completely open, thus you use Guest connection to connect? Using another Mac client also shows the same behavior.

Among the 3 protocols above, SMB actually would be the one I need most, due to the fact that need to stream movies and audio from this storage box. I know that there is UpNP and DAAP in M2, but I have not tested them, and some of my streaming clients do not have these protocols and rely solely on SMB/CIFS.

I hope that the SMB would provide speeds close to the FTP as above, as that is certainly in the target speeds that I am looking for.

Here is my syslog:

System Message Log:

Jun 21 21:32:49 [3] klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2008.07.26-02:54+0000)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Linux version 2.4.37.NASLite (root@tzt) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 Mon Jan 12 23:05:48 EST 2009
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffc0000 (usable)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000001ffc0000 - 000000001fff8000 (ACPI data)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 000000001fff8000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb80000 - 00000000ffc00000 (reserved)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] BIOS-e820: 00000000fff00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [3] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [3] 511MB LOWMEM available.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] On node 0 totalpages: 131008
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] zone(0): 4096 pages.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] zone(1): 126912 pages.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] zone(2): 0 pages.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI ) @ 0x000ff980
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: RSDT (v001 D850GB G285010A 0x20011008 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x1fff0000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: FADT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x20011008 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x1fff1000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: MADT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x20011008 MSFT 0x00001011) @ 0x1ffe2e67
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: SSDT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x00000001 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x1ffe2ecf
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: DSDT (v001 D850GB GB85010A 0x00000002 MSFT 0x0100000b) @ 0x00000000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Processor #0 Pentium 4(tm) APIC version 20
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] disabled)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Skipping IOAPIC probe due to 'noapic' option.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet noapic BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Found and enabled local APIC!
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Initializing CPU#0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Detected 1794.596 MHz processor.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Calibrating delay loop. 3578.26 BogoMIPS
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Memory: 509500k/524032k available (2326k kernel code, 14144k reserved, 684k data, 560k init, 0k highmem)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Intel machine check architecture supported.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] CPU: After generic, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] CPU: Common caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1800MHz stepping 0a
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: IRQ9 SCI: Level Trigger.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Using local APIC timer interrupts.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] calibrating APIC timer .
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] . CPU clock speed is 1794.6419 MHz.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] . host bus clock speed is 99.7020 MHz.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] cpu: 0, clocks: 997020, slice: 498510
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] CPU0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfda95, last bus=2
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] PCI: Using configuration type 1
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Interpreter enabled
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Transparent bridge - PCI device 8086:244e
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [FDDP] (off)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [URP1] (off)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [URP2] (off)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Power Resource [LPTP] (off)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] A] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 *6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 *15)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 *9 10 11 12 14 15)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 12 14 15)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.MDET] (Node dfbb3ac0), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.MEM_._CRS] (Node c1608980), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI-0154: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.MEM_._CRS] (Node c1608980), AE_AML_REGION_LIMIT
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 15
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 6
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 11
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] enabled at IRQ 9
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Initializing RT netlink socket
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Starting kswapd
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ACPI: Processor [CPU2] (supports C1)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] floppy0: no floppy controllers found
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] dgrs: SW=$Id: dgrs.c,v 1.13 2000/06/06 04:07:00 rick Exp $ FW=Build 550 11/16/96 03:45:15
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] FW Version=$Version$
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] sk98lin: No adapter found.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] eth0: RTL8169 at 0xe0808c00, 00:18:e7:07:d2:d6, IRQ 9
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ICH2: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:1f.1
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ICH2: chipset revision 4
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ICH2: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] hda: SONY CD-RW CRX300E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] hda: attached ide-cdrom driver.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Jan 12 2009 23:06:00)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] AAC0: kernel 4.2.4 build 8209
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] AAC0: monitor 4.2.4 build 8209
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] AAC0: bios 4.2.0 build 8209
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] AAC0: serial 104bcffafaf001
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] scsi1 : aacraid
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: BinMedia Rev: V1.0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [3] megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] evice driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] libata version 1.20 loaded.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Attached scsi disk sda at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] SCSI device sda: 3904897024 512-byte hdwr sectors (1999307 MB)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Partition check:
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0:spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] p1
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Jun 21 21:32:49 [5] ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] usb.c: registered new driver hub
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.2 to 64
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef40, IRQ 15
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:1f.4 to 64
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xef80, IRQ 11
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] hub.c: USB hub found
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] hub.c: 2 ports detected
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] USB Mass Storage support registered.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [3] RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.2-1, assigned address 2
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] <6>scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Vendor: Sony Model: Storage Media Rev: 0100
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi3, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .SCSI device sdb: 4062208 512-byte hdwr sectors (2080 MB)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .sdb: Write Protect is off
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] /dev/scsi/host3/bus0/target0/lun0:. p1 p2
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured
Jun 21 21:32:49 [1] USB Mass Storage device found at 2
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-2, assigned address 2
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .<3>usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=2 (error=-110)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:1f.4-2, assigned address 3
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .<3>usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=3 (error=-110)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] .<6>Freeing initrd memory: 4137k freed
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Mounted devfs on /dev
Jun 21 21:32:49 [2] Freeing unused kernel memory: 560k freed
Jun 21 21:32:49 [4] Warning: unable to open an initial console.
Jun 21 21:32:49 [5] journal on filesystem on sd(8,1)
Jun 21 21:32:49 [5] ext3: No journal on filesystem on sd(8,17)

BTW,

I noticed in the Console screen of NASlite, under select interface, there is an option-8 to change it from FIRST to LAST. What does this do, if my only network interface is a PCI Trendnet network card on slot 1? There are no network port on the motherboard. I presume that this does not matter if I only have 1 interface?

Thanks for explaining..

With one NIC then the first is also the last.