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[Ekpen]

Greetings Bob, and team.

After waiting for several months, I have successfully installed MC 21.0.16 using Ubuntu Unity.
I thank Awesome Donkey and all for the help. It was easy. I am still trying to acquaint myself with the get used to  new stuffs.

I am wondering if we are going to have under the tree, the "explorer" similar to what we have  on the Windows platform.
The reason why I ask is that most of my audio and video libraries are stored in a couple of external RAID boxes which connect to the PC via either Esata, or USB3.0
Ubuntu unity does not currently detects the RAID Hzw, but does not detect the contents, on the other hand, the contents on standard drives are detected. Can the explorer be made to scan RAID devices used as storages?

Also,  a question that the developers may not like  me to ask.. When are we going to have the "Theater view" ?
This is why I was not interested in installing  MC for over one years.

Thanks.

George T. Omoregie.

[Awesome Donkey]

The problem here is various distros/desktop environments use different file managers, unlike Windows or Mac. Trying to support them all would become a nightmare, I'm thinking.

[blgentry]

If your OS can't see the files, no application can see the files.  You have to get your drives mounted on a mount point before anything can see the files.  Once you've got that, you should be able to import your media through all of the normal import methods.

"Explorer" is just a way of looking at files.  Which you don't need in MC.  You can look at files externally if you want.  For files that are imported, there's no need to browse by file system.  You can use the metadata, which is much more powerful.

Brian.

[Ekpen]

The problem here is various distros/desktop environments use different file managers, unlike Windows or Mac. Trying to support them all would become a nightmare, I'm thinking.

What I mean here is the explorer that is under the tree in MC, this displays the folders on the drives.
On this new Ubuntu set up, I have two USB drives in a case, Ubuntu(Unity) sees the two drives and displays the drives' contents. I was wondering why it can not display the contents on External RAID drives. The drives are assigned I, and F, just as the  drives on the other 2TB Seagate are assigned  j and K. The drives letters are stripped off when they display.
Anyone knows of a utility that will do this in Ubuntu or mount  these RAID boxes.
Remember this is my second day using this, so it is all new to me.
The last time I used Linux was Fedora 8, long time ago.
Thanks for your help so far.

Thanks.
George
I am enjoying it

[BryanC]

Anyone knows of a utility that will do this in Ubuntu or mount  these RAID boxes.
Thanks.
George
I am enjoying it

Make sure that you have the dmraid package installed and then reboot.

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sudo apt-get install dmraid
Your drives should be automounted on startup now. If not, report back.

[Ekpen]

Make sure that you have the dmraid package installed and then reboot.

Code: [Select]

sudo apt-get install dmraid
Your drives should be automounted on startup now. If not, report back.

Thanks.
George

[Ekpen]

Make sure that you have the dmraid package installed and then reboot.

Code: [Select]

sudo apt-get install dmraid
Your drives should be automounted on startup now. If not, report back.

Greetings:

I installed dmraid with success. Then rebooted, no luck.
Here is a brief sypnosis of these external RAID boxes:

Type - Mediasonic model HFR2-SU3S2 ProRAid 4 bay. This unit is hardware raid.

I have two units recognized by Ubuntu 15.10 as dev/sdd, dev/sde. Under Windows 8/10 with MC, no issues, drives are seen as "I", and "F" under the explorer on MC underneath the tree, everything performed as expected.

 also I have two 2TB Seagate drives in external box, I use these two drives for my Makemkv conversions. These are drives "j" and "K".

There are a few mkv files on one of the Seagate drives, Ubuntu has no problem mounting these drives.

After installing the dmraid with success, under "disks" in Ubuntu, it sees the two RAID boxes as usual, then it reports RAID boxes are empty, or  un-allocated space, which is scary. I know fully well under Windows, my libraries for audio and video with mkv files are there, over 730 Bluray movies. The raid are set up s RAID level 5 vol 1 and 2.

I went online to read about dmraid, I also tried to invoke  or load them by using dmraid -R raid_set, dmraid -r, dmraid -ay. I get error- unsupported sector type 4096.
What I am thinking now is Ubuntu wants me to format the RAID boxes maybe after this, it will be able to mount them. This is a "maybe"
I still have two of this Mediasonic boxes unused, I am thinking of putting 4tb drives, used the boxes as JBOD assuming I am not able to get the RAID box to work with Ubuntu 15.10 Unity.

Also , note that I am using all RAID boxes as storages, no OS.

Thanks.

George