NASLite Network Attached Storage

Hello,

Just got NASLITE 2 CDD and installed it, replacing my NASLITE V1 NAS. All goes pretty well except for when I add the CMD IDE card. Indeed, when I add the 250 GB Maxtor to it, start the server, it apparently first sees it as 30 GB. Then when I get to the NASLITE 2 login screen, it gives me:

/etc/ServerElements/bin/NL2-0B: 265 : Syntax error : 100-194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 000 253 000 Old_age Always Failing_now38

And I get 3 consecutive 700MHz bips every 30 seconds or so...

Any idea? Could this be IRQ errors?

Thanks

Nic
CMD 0649 PCI-to-IDE Ultra DMA (non-raid)

Hm

Something is strange about the way the drive handles SMART. I haven't seen this before. From the admin interface, turn SMART off for that drive. That should hopefully resolve the problem. Also, if someone else can identify the same behavior, please speak up.

Ok I will try but I think you NASLITE 2 and SMART are not to blame.

You see, when I power up the PC (DELL XPS 450- PIII - 576MB RAM), I first get the BIOS screen with the DELL logo, followed by the CMD Bios that scans for any IDE drives. The scan finds the Maxtor drive, but it sees it as a 30,700 MB drive, instead of a 250,000MB drive...

Then NASLITE 2 kicks in, runs all the checks, finds disks 0, 1, 2 and 3 (the Maxtor Drive) and just before it prompts me for the Admin login, it gives that message detailed in my first post accompanied by the beeps.

When I check the hardware status in the HTML pages from another PC, I see only drives 0,1 and 2. Drive 3 is not available.

So I am thinking that this may come from a conflict between the DMD IDE controller and the motherboard...

I tried replacing the Maxtor with other drives and I get the same issue...

Could the card conflict due to ATA133 and ATA100 conflicts?

Thoughts?

If you have not formatted and set the drive for data, then it will not appear in the status. Only drives available for storage are monitored. You can check the syslog for possible IRQ conflicts but I doubt that's the problem. Usually, IRQ issues will prevent hardware from being detected or prevent hardware from performing optimally. In your case that's not what's happening.

Some drives have a jumper that forces 32M max size for backward compatibility with win98, etc. Can you verify the drive is jumpered properly for full capacity? Turn SMART for that dive off in the amin as I suggested above, format it, reboot and see where you stand.

I will test this when I get back home this evening. I can already answer some of these questions.

All drives have been functioning correctly and flawlessly under NASLITE SMB (diskette). What I am conducting here is an upgrade. Since i have to add the CD-ROM drive to boot on the MOBO, I need to put one of the HDD on the added CMD PCI to IDE controller. BTW, this Maxtor drive is full so reformatting does not really please me I'll use on of the 80 GB drives.

I'll keep you posted.

If that does not work, I'll try putting the CD-ROM drive on the CMD controller and make the Bios boot from it.

Thanks

Nic

Ah, so the 250G is not a new drive. I didn't consider that when I suggested reformatting. Yes, puting the CD on the secondary controller would be the smart thing to do since it is needed only during boot.

Alright... I tried to put the CD ROM on the CMD card and the server would not boot. Checked the jumpers on the Maxtor 250 GB and there is no possible setting for limiting to 30 MB so that was it... the only setting were Slave, Master and Cable Detect...

So I decided to look for my only ATA IV drive (one of the two 80 GB) and place it on the card and this time during the scanning of the drives by the card, it found that the drive was indeed around 80 GB...

Then Naslite 2 kicked in... and ... and ... hold your breath... it gave me the same SMART message and the 3 consecutive beeps

Bummer.

So I did what you suggested and in fact, it looked like the beeps were coming from the capacity alarm... so I switched it to Off on the Drive 3 but now, my HTML pages do not provide SMART at all for any drives (HDD, SYSTEM and Network pages are 404)...

I checked again the list of compatible hardware and the 0649 chipset is indeed listed... Am I the only one with this problem?

OK, so you have the CD and 3 drives on the MB and an additional 80G on the CMD card. All are properly detected and rendered by NASLite, but you are getting beeps. Did you take a look at the manual and identify for sure what is causing the beeps. There is a table listing the meaning of all alarm sequences. Guessing really doesn't help in determining a cause.

If it was a capacity alarm, then it would sound for that drive no matter where it is connected. Capacity alarms are strictly contend driven. As far as SMART, disabling SMART for a given drive does not remove the SMART status for all drives and you should under no circumstances get a 404. That would mean there is a hardware problem and the stats probe could not complete it's task.

Anyway, let's get some facts first. Place the SMART setting back the way it was, save and reboot. After you get the beeps, check the manual and identify what they are. If they are SMART related, then take a look at the smart details for the drive in question. Lastly, post the syslog and any other pertinent info here so we can look at this intelligently.

Thanks Tony,

Your patience is appreciated. I will perform you suggested changes this pm when I get back home. Until then I can already give you some facts/confirmation. No need to respond yet as we can wait for this evening's tweaks.

Fact 1: NAsLite 2 main functionality works:
At this stage, I can access the server's shared drives through my network's PCs... I have a Windows XP Media Center PC which managed to "see" all the shared drives in the following order:
Disk-0
Disk-1
Disk-2
Disk-3
Remote
Shares
Status

Fact 2: 3 beeps were indeed capacity alarm related.
As described, the beeps were the 3 consecutive 700MHz related to drives being maxed out on capacity. What the manual does not say is that the sounds (in this case the 3x700MHz beeps) are repeated on regular intervals (which is what I did not understand). Since almost all my drives (except for the 400 GB) are full, I have disabled the alarm for all drives (the server is in the basement and roachs don't care about drives being full
I performed this action through the General Storage Option Menu...

Fact 3: Just to confirm the hardware setup
MOBO IDE Primary Master: CD Drive (with Naslite2 CDD)
MOBO IDE Primary Slave: Maxtor 250 GB (that one is full)
MOBO IDE Secondary Master: Seagate 400 GB (lots of space left in this one)
MOBO IDE Secondary Slave: WD Caviar 80 GB (that one is full)
Card IDE Primary Master: Seagate 80 GB (that one is full)

Fact 4: SMART is ON For ALL Drives.
when I played with the server settings yesterday, I switched off the SMART for drive-3 as you suggested and then I realized that the HTML pages for HDD, SYSTEM and Network pages were 404... so I decided to reactivate SMART on that drive again. I saved the configuration (option 9) and rebooted. Still no HTML Pages.

As I said, no need to respond yet... I will make review all my settings, from network setup to HDD. I will also remove the CMD card and its attached drive from the configuration and see if I can get the probe to do its job, and therefore generate those valuable HTML reports.

More to come

Thanks

Nic

That puts things in a bit better perspective.

I assume you are running 2.06. I'd suggest you leave things alone as you have them and check to see if the syslog page is available. If so, copy it's contents and post it here.

Alright... did not touched at the hardware configuration... here's the syslog

Correction this morning: I lied I did move the hardware around before generating this syslog and I left traces of my wrong doings by swapping the primary IDE and Secondary IDE... And it's a Samsung drive next to the Maxtor... not a Seagate.. The WD is a Seagate in fact... that's what happens when you think you know but you don't Apologies to the forum readers and helpers.

The problem stays the same though... no SMART.

Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: klogd started: BusyBox v1.01 (2007.03.15-22:03+0000)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Linux version 2.4.35.NASLite (root@tzt) (gcc version 3.4.6) #2 Sun Aug 12 09:03:16 EDT 2007
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f400 (usable)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009f400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000e6c00 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000040fd800 (usable)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000040fd800 - 00000000040ff800 (ACPI data)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000040ff800 - 00000000040ffc00 (ACPI NVS)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000040ffc00 - 0000000024000000 (usable)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: 0MB HIGHMEM available.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: 576MB LOWMEM available.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 147456
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: zone(1): 143360 pages.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: ACPI disabled because your bios is from 1999 and too old
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: You can enable it with acpi=force
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Kernel command line: rw root=/dev/ram0 initrd=NASLite.02 quiet BOOT_IMAGE=NASLite.01
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Detected 448.968 MHz processor.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Calibrating delay loop. 894.56 BogoMIPS
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Memory: 576868k/589824k available (2214k kernel code, 12556k reserved, 642k data, 540k init, 0k highmem)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Inode cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Buffer cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Page-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: CPU serial number disabled.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.debug kernel: CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.debug kernel: CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: CPU: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Enabling fast FPU save and restore. done.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support. done.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction. OK.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ACPI: Subsystem revision 20040326
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993, last bus=1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: Using configuration type 1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: Using IRQ router PIIX/ICH [8086/7110] at 00:07.0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Initializing RT netlink socket
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: Starting kswapd
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Journalled Block Device driver loaded
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: devfs: boot_options: 0x1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(ed)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?(f4)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k4
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: 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
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: FW Version=$Version$
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30h 06.24.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ThunderLAN driver v1.15
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: TLAN: 0 devices installed, PCI: 0 EISA: 0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: dmfe: Davicom DM9xxx net driver, version 1.36.4 (2002-01-17)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ns83820.c: National Semiconductor DP83820 10/100/1000 driver.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: sk98lin: No adapter found.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.50.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.err kernel: 8139cp: pci dev 00:11.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.err kernel: 8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:11.0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe4800000, 00:e0:4c:a2:0a:fa, IRQ 10
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.debug kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PIIX4: chipset revision 1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1420-0x1427, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:DMA
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1428-0x142f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:DMA
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: CMD649: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0e.0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0e.0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: CMD649: chipset revision 2
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: CMD649: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0x1430-0x1437, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0x1438-0x143f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hda: Maxtor 6B250R0, ATA DISK drive
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hdb: SAMSUNG SP0802N, ATA DISK drive
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hdc: CRW6206A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hdd: ST3400832A, ATA DISK drive
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hde: ST380021A, ATA DISK drive
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: ide2 at 0x1450-0x1457,0x1446 on irq 11
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hda: attached ide-disk driver.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hda: host protected area => 1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: hda: 490234752 sectors (251000 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=30515/255/63, UDMA(33)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hdb: attached ide-disk driver.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hdb: host protected area => 1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: hdb: 156368016 sectors (80060 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=9733/255/63, UDMA(33)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hdd: attached ide-disk driver.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hdd: host protected area => 1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: hdd: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63, UDMA(33)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hde: attached ide-disk driver.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: hde: host protected area => 1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: hde: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=155061/16/63, UDMA(100)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Partition check:
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0: p1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0: p1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver (1.1-3 Aug 12 2007 09:05:44)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: scsi: Detection failed (no card)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: megaraid: v2.10.10.1 (Release Date: Thu Jan 27 16:19:44 EDT 2005)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Storage RAID Controller Driver. Version: 3.04
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: GDT-HA: Found 0 PCI Storage RAID Controllers
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.037.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: 3w-xxxx: No cards found.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.debug kernel: libata version 1.20 loaded.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.err kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Driver forced to serialize I/O (serialize_io = 1)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver hub
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:07.2
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 9 with 00:0c.0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: host/uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1400, IRQ 9
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: hub.c: USB hub found
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: hub.c: 2 ports detected
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.notice kernel: RAMDISK: NASLite file system found at block 0
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: <6>Freeing initrd memory: 1952k freed
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.warn kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Mounted devfs on /dev
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: Freeing unused kernel memory: 540k freed
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.info kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,1)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide0(3,65)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide1(22,65)
Oct 3 02:20:25 user.err kernel: ext3: No journal on filesystem on ide2(33,1)

Well, I have to say that unless I'm missing something, everything appears to be normal and you should have a healthy system. Here are the problems that I'll assume remain:

1. With SMART enabled, you get the Syntax Error at boot.
2. With SMART disabled, you are missing status pages.

I'm puzzled by both cases since there is no obvious reason that will cause such behavior. None I can think of anyway. What is the exact model of theCMD649 controller and does it have a BIOS you can manipulate at boot time. Also, with SMART enabled, can you access the Disk-X page for the drive on the CMD controller and if so, can you identify any abnormalities in the SMART details.

Well SMART isn't working (ie: the status HTML pages on HDD, Network and system are 404) at all with the CMD card even if I set:
- Drives 0, 1, 2 with SMART and drive 3 without
- All drives with SMART

The last time SMART worked (ie: the 3 above mentioned pages existed) was when the CMD card was not hooked to the MOBO.

As for accessing the Bios of the card, I never really tried to enter it, to tell you the truth... When the PC starts and I have passed the Dell bios logo, I get to the Card screen where the IDE scan is initiated (see previous posts on this thread). On that screen, I have a the possibility to "Press F1 or F11 for Windows 2000" (which I have tried without ever changing the outcome). I never really understood what that was for or did. I had this card running very well on Windows XP Pro for a few years and never had to do anything...

I'll get you the exact name of the card but the chipset says CMD-0649 alright.

I'll reboot again and try pressing the classic keys for accessing BIOSes (Esc, F8, Del, etc) and see if I can access some bios menu...

More to come on the CMD saga.

Ok... something new happened yesterday after the Nth reboot. The HDD page came up but showed only the System line report. the HDD lines are still not available. I guess we're getting somewhere but since I don't know what triggered that...

The brand of the CMD0649 card is "Butterfly"... never heard of them and this is not a joke. The logo is a small yellow butterfly that looks more like Patrick the Starfish painted in yellow, if you ask me.

Also, I get the message
/etc/ServerElements/bin/NL2-0B: 265 : Syntax error : 100-194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0032 000 253 000 Old_age Always Failing_now38
with or without SMART turned on for all or any drive... in fact, whatever I do... I get this message. It goes away when the controller is removed from the MOBO.

I went in the admin interface (telnet) and also went in the tools and utilities and realized that all the network reports and tools were actually up and running. So could it be that the sofware that generates the lost HTML pages be simply hung up on something? That SMART is actually performing alright... it's just that the pages are not generated?

Looks like things are degenerating with time. I lost drive 3 (the one on the CMD). Did a rebbot... still not there... Saw in the telnet console that the drive was still there but not mounted.

After running a disk check and repair, and restarting it, I managed to get it back.

But then I wanted to see if I could get back the SMART HTML Pages so I shutdown the server, removed the drive and CMD card. Rebooted and the HTML pages were still not there.

So I shut down, put back the card and drive 3 is gone again (not mounted). Running another one of these disk check... It's clearing out a ton of illegal blocks...

I am starting to think that I should move back to Naslite 1...

Edited: got drive 3 back weew