Chris Pollard

Yup, they seem to have either signed deals with spectacularly incompetent suppliers or they have decided to just flat out not sell some of their products in the EU. Most annoying.

So neat and tidy! I might have to post pics of mine later, it looks like a bird made a nest inside the case

Yes, mine came with a normal one and low profile.

look nice but the prices are crazy. $549 for the case linked...

I suspect I also had some weird spindown issues, unfortunately I rebooted before investigating. Was also running cache_dirs.

smartctl works.

Other than the fact they stopped after a reboot... no

Hmm, the drive I posted about yesterday went up 2500 LLC's in 24 hours..... just rebooted the box so no logs unfortunatly. Have killed all of my addons for now to see if they stop it rising. (cache_dirs, unraid_notify, SABNZBD)

link is broken for me so can't see the motherboard. 2gb ram is fine and 450w PSU should also be fine unless you are planning to have lots of disks in the future.

Just checked my WD10EACS and they all have around 30k LLC in 10000 hours :- 9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 086 086 000 Old_age Always - 10346 12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 119 193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 192 192 000 Old_age Always - 26918

do you mean all-internal? All external I'd choose something smaller.... All internal.. I chose the Lian Li 343-B 10 drive system you can't go far wrong with the CM-590 or Antec 1200 infact there are any number of 9x5.25" cases out there.

You need breakout cables. Mini-SAS to 4 SATA :- http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816103194 something similar to that. Most seem to be quite expensive on newegg, I got mine for ~$15 each (UK).

I'm using High Point Int-MS-1M4S cables. Be warned however... they are 1m long so maybe not so good in smaller cases.

I have an N900 and I'm very happy with it. Battery life is terrible however.... Not sure how long the battery lasts in the iphone but my N900 needs charging every day, sometimes it doesn't even make 'til bedtime.

Let me know how you get on if you can please. Email from Scan :-

should fit yes. I'm not sure an ikea coffee table will exactly be able to support a 4U server in any meaningful way however.

Just to confirm I have the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 running in the PCI-E slot of this motherboard fine. (GA-MA74GM-S2H)

As of v4.5.3 this card is now supported.

Seems I bought a AOC-SASLP-MV8 just at the right time Stuck it in my server replacing my Si3114 card, and added a new Parity disk. Parity is now building at 70mb/s (5 drives on the motherboard, 5 drives on the Supermicro card). Quite an improvement over the 25mb/s I was getting while parity checked against drives on the Si3114. EDIT : Speed is probably bottlenecked by my WD Green drives. (?) EDIT2 : This slightly odd sounding message in my syslog :- Mar 4 01:32:46 dave kernel: scst: ***WARNING***: Patch io_context was not applied on your kernel. SCST will be working with not the best performance.

I think LLC is the heads being parked. There's a different counter for spinning down, maybe Start_Stop_Count?

This is a real killer. Its as if the board is made of unobtanium which is illegal in most EU countrys cause literally a hand full of places stock it and none in the UK. Everything supermicro seems to be the equivalent of rocking horse shit here in the UK. The suppliers listed on the Supermicro website all seem to be systems integrators or wholesale only. I'm going to email scan later to see if they plan to stock it.

Hmm. Need to find a UK supplier for this board.

Sounds good. Look forward to testing this card when you add support.

Here you go :- chris@chris-cent:~$ lsmod Module Size Used by raid456 58112 1 raid6_pq 81440 1 raid456 async_xor 4160 1 raid456 async_memcpy 2528 1 raid456 async_tx 4096 3 raid456,async_xor,async_memcpy xor 5456 2 raid456,async_xor binfmt_misc 10220 1 snd_hda_codec_realtek 277860 1 snd_hda_intel 31880 2 snd_hda_codec 87584 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel snd_hwdep 9352 1 snd_hda_codec snd_pcm_oss 44704 0 snd_mixer_oss 18976 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm 93160 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm_oss iptable_filter 3872 0 snd_seq_dummy 3460 0 snd_seq_oss 33440 0 snd_seq_midi 8192 0 ip_tables 21200 1 iptable_filter x_tables 25832 1 ip_tables snd_rawmidi 27360 1 snd_seq_midi ppdev 8232 0 snd_seq_midi_event 8448 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi parport_pc 37352 1 snd_seq 60608 6 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event psmouse 57124 0 serio_raw 6596 0 nvidia 8098608 24 snd_timer 26992 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq snd_seq_device 8308 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq snd 77096 16 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_seq_oss,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device lp 11908 0 parport 40528 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp soundcore 9088 1 snd snd_page_alloc 10928 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm usb_storage 66016 0 r8169 38884 0 mii 6368 1 r8169 floppy 65192 0 mvsas 51984 4 libsas 56456 1 mvsas scsi_transport_sas 35488 2 mvsas,libsas intel_agp 32816 0

As anticipated, unraid 4.5.1 recognises the card, also recognises any SAS drives attached to it (but you can't add them to the array). SATA drives cause an error on boot :- Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: scsi0 : mvsas Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 380:phy 2 byte dmaded. Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: drivers/scsi/mvsas/mv_sas.c 380:phy 3 byte dmaded. Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: phy-0:2 added to port-0:0, phy_mask:0x4 ( 200000000000000) Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: phy-0:3 added to port-0:1, phy_mask:0x8 ( 300000000000000) Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: DOING DISCOVERY on port 0, pid:670 Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: ATA device seen but CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATA=N so cannot attach Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: unhandled device 5 Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: DONE DISCOVERY on port 0, pid:670, result:-6 Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: DOING DISCOVERY on port 1, pid:670 Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: ATA device seen but CONFIG_SCSI_SAS_ATA=N so cannot attach Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: unhandled device 5 Mar 1 23:38:09 testicles kernel: sas: DONE DISCOVERY on port 1, pid:670, result:-6 full syslog attached in case anyone wants to look. syslog.txt