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Is this controller compatible with the newest unraid? Anyone? Thanks.

Hi i have a similar board the gigabyte x79s. Does your board has intel c606 chipset for SAS ? If so can you confirm the new unraid use the SAS port fine? Thanks

Bump, has anyone got it working? I have this exact board for my desktop. I'm looking to rebuild my setup and put unraid and gaming/workstation into 1. This board would be perfect for that if the SAS is working. Thanks

Yeah i agree. I checked with the drives connected to onboard SATA and it worked. Btw here is the screenshot. The web interface is basically not responsive. But the server is still running (connected thro telnet)

when i run smartctl -d ata -a /dev/sdh I got However when i clicked Identify on the Web interface , it did show the drives and the read speed. Edit: I think its because my SATA controller does not support smart?

After a power lost, my unraid array is now just stuck at mounting. I'm running Unraid 5.0b12a Can someone help me? The attached syslog is right after boot without starting the array. Something is wrong...? syslog.txt

bump, this thread is worth for further discussion folks...

I found this msg from the syslog Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata1: softreset failed (device not ready) Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata1: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: Probing IDE interface ide1... Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata2: softreset failed (device not ready) Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata2: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ide2 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: e1000 0000:05:00.1: eth1: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:11:0a:61:b7:c9 Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: e1000 0000:05:00.1: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata3: softreset failed (device not ready) Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata3: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata4: softreset failed (device not ready) Sep 28 00:58:37 Tower kernel: ata4: applying SB600 PMP SRST workaround and retrying From the syslog, i believe ata1 - ata4 are the onboard Sata ports supported by the southbridge, SB600. The disk5 is connected to port 1 of the onboard Sata ports. Its recognized as sda in Unraid Current storage specs of the server: + 4 onboard SATA from SB600 + 2 onboard SATA from JMB 363 + 2 x BR10i controllers with 8ports each. i connect only 4 disks to one controller and 1 disk to the other one

Syslog attached. syslog.txt

So i just did some upgrades to give more expansion of my Unraid. I just installed 2 x BR10i controllers. I moved about 5 disks to the new controllers. Boot up the system, didnt see any errors (tho i'm not sure, i did make a post in Hard Drive section but no1 replies ). Unraid found all the disks fine, so i started the array. All disks are green. So i started parity check. After 20 mins or so, i checked back the web gui and it didnt seem to respond. Plug a monitor in and i can still type command fine on the console. I went back and loaded the web gui again (opened a new browser), i found disk5 got a RED. No longer see parity check or sync. I turned off the server and went to check cable etc... Everything seems connected fine. Interestingly, disk5 is not on the new controllers. I started the array again. I checked the data (not all just random files) thro Windows Explorer on my laptop. I can access data on disk5 fine. Open some files and all looks fine. Now i'm scared of whats happening? Did i mess something up? Please check my syslog. It seems longer than normal.

Unraid Version 5.012b System Specs: + AMD 64 4200+ Dual core + ECS KA3 MVP extreme ( 2x full PCIE x16, SB600 southbridge with 4 SATAII ports, JMB363 with 2 SATA ports ) + 2 x IBM BR10i PCIE x8 SAS controllers + 1 x PCIX Intel Pro 1000MT NIC Currently i'm testing with just 2 x WD20EARS. I plan to move my old server to this one due to dual PCIE x16 for the BR10i controllers. Can someone check if there is any problem in my syslog? So far i just formatted the drives and did some writing and reading from the disk with no parity. syslog.txt

Nevermind, i forgot to Disable the Onboard LAN. Sorry for making this thread, let this be a reminder for everyone else

I'm using Unraid 5.012b. The card or NIC interface does not show up at all. Its PCI-X but compatible with PCI slot which is what i use.

I want to compare the performance of the controllers. Is it safe for me to put the controller in, assign the disk correctly then do a parity check (no writing to the array)? So if a controller is faulty, is my array safe?

Indeed it was. I had unzipped the file via Finder (Lion). Turns out when you do it that way there is no trace of empty.bin! Once I unzipped via the command line, the file was there and I was able to reflash the card (yay). Might be worth adding a note to the OP for mac users. I view this as a bug in OS X. Thanks for your help I think I'm set. Update - I've moved the 4 drives that were on my SAT2-MV8 to the new card and my initial parity check speeds have gone from 25 MB/sec to nearly 90 MB/sec. Huge gain, thanks much! I'm abit confused, what Unraid version are you using? Is it fully compatible with this M1015 card?