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Yes it will work for any controller based on LSI 1068E.

Go there: http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/LSISAS3081E-R.aspx Click on the fourth tab - "support and download" Expand the "firmware" and download the first file with the long name SAS3081ER Package P21..... You do it one card at at time (remove one to have a single controller during the flashing) Your chips are B3 revision

It also appears that you have two different LSI 1068E based controllers but with different firmware. Mar 8 13:54:57 Angband kernel: ioc0: LSISAS1068E B3: Capabilities={Initiator} Mar 8 13:54:57 Angband kernel: mptsas 0000:01:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 Mar 8 13:54:57 Angband kernel: scsi7 : ioc0: LSISAS1068E B3, FwRev=01160100h, Ports=1, MaxQ=366, IRQ=24 and Mar 8 13:54:57 Angband kernel: ioc1: LSISAS1068E B3: Capabilities={Initiator} Mar 8 13:54:57 Angband kernel: mptsas 0000:05:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 Mar 8 13:54:57 Angband kernel: scsi8 : ioc1: LSISAS1068E B3, FwRev=011a0000h, Ports=1, MaxQ=478, IRQ=16 I believe up to a certain revision the IT firmware for these cards came in two flavors. flavor one - support for SATA1 and SATA2 drives flavor two - support for SATA2 and SATA3 drives I also believe in the latest release they unified the firmware (no need for "flavors") You may be suffering from one of these symptoms so you will need to flash them to the latest firmware and BIOS.

You are using Beta 13 with one LSI controller. The support for the LSI controllers is broken big time in this release and also in Beta 14. Downgrade to Beta 12 or 12a and the disk problems will dissapear (but new ones related to realtek LAN and IRQs may pop up). Also you are using a motherboard with the initial factory released BIOS 0503. Upgrade to the newest one 0901, load the default configuration, save it, go back into the bios and disable any unused hardware feature (par. and serial ports, audio, floppy drive, firewire, even the IDE controller is you are not going to use any IDE drive), save this one and try again.

Sometimes the brackets are not advertized for M1015 but there is a guy selling both low-profile and regular PCI brackets for US$9 and with FS. Not sure if he sells internationally: Regular - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Standard-Height-Bracket-for-LSI-9260-4i-9260-8i-9240-4i-Adaptec-2405-5405-/130598358510?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e6844cdee Low profile - http://www.ebay.com/itm/Low-Profile-Bracket-for-LSI-9260-4i-9260-8i-9240-4i-Adaptec-2405-5405-/130598359082?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e6844d02a M1015 is 9240-8i clone so it will work

This is much nicer (and different card - based on SAS2108 chip). It looks like the LSI 9260-8i, IBM M5015 The procedure will be similar but you may have to use different tools and firmware. Some quick search: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/servers/raid/raid-controller-rs2bl.html http://www.lsi.com/products/storagecomponents/Pages/MegaRAIDSAS9260-8i.aspx http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?271922-LSI-2108-based-card-cross-flashing-%28Dell-H700-LSI-9260-IBM-M5015-Intel-RS2BL080%29

It is one year - so I guess it is Seagate from the product details: "With a one year guarantee, the Whitebox Generic Internal 3.5" SATA Hard Drive will bolster your hard disk space with quality results!"

In your case: scsi0 are the drives on the first SASLP card scsi1 is your flash drive (or to be exact in your case a flash reader...) scsi2 are the drives on the second SASLP scsi3 to scsi8 are the drives attached to the motherboard SATA ports =========================================================== Do not sweat that much as Unraid 5 will mask some of these with the purpose that once you add a HD then you can change motherboards, controllers, etc but your system will know what slot this drive is supposed to be.

it is easy on all versions up to 4.7 but not so in 5. Anyways start from the inventory Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: Device inventory: Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 host3 (sdo) ST31500341AS_9VS2NKCP Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-1:0:0:0 host4 (sdp) ST31500341AS_9VS2B9ZW Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-2:0:0:0 host5 (sdq) ST31500341AS_9VS299T1 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-4:0:0:0 host7 (sdr) ST31500341AS_9VS2N6RH Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:00:11.0-scsi-5:0:0:0 host8 (sds) SAMSUNG_HD204UI_S2HFJ9FZA01378 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy0:1-0x0000000000000000:0-lun0 host0 (sda) WDC_WD10EACS-00ZJB0_WD-WCASJ1699821 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy1:1-0x0100000000000000:1-lun0 host0 (sdb) SAMSUNG_HD103SIS1VSJ90S573052 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy2:1-0x0200000000000000:2-lun0 host0 (sdc) WDC_WD20EARS-00_WD-WCAZA2920888 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy3:1-0x0300000000000000:3-lun0 host0 (sdd) ST31500341AS_9VS2N1C3 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy4:1-0x0400000000000000:4-lun0 host0 (sde) SAMSUNG_HD204UIS2HGJ90Z906573 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy5:1-0x0500000000000000:5-lun0 host0 (sdf) SAMSUNG_HD103SIS1VSJ90S573490 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy6:1-0x0600000000000000:6-lun0 host0 (sdg) SAMSUNG_HD204UIS2HFJ9CZA00326 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-sas-phy7:1-0x0700000000000000:7-lun0 host0 (sdh) ST31500341AS_9VS2BC09 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy0:1-0x0000000000000000:0-lun0 host2 (sdj) ST32000542AS_5XW0E6Z4 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy4:1-0x0400000000000000:4-lun0 host2 (sdk) SAMSUNG_HD204UIS2HGJ9FZ900400 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy5:1-0x0500000000000000:5-lun0 host2 (sdl) WDC_WD10EACS-00_WD-WCASJ1695946 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy6:1-0x0600000000000000:6-lun0 host2 (sdm) SAMSUNG_HD204UIS2HFJ9BZA00817 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower emhttp: pci-0000:03:00.0-sas-phy7:1-0x0700000000000000:7-lun0 host2 (sdn) ST31500341AS_9VS2NKHC and the the Unraid slot assignments: Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: unRAID driver 1.1.1 installed Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk0: [65,32] (sds) SAMSUNG HD204UI S2HFJ9FZA01378 size: 1953514552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk1: [8,160] (sdk) SAMSUNG HD204UI S2HGJ9FZ900400 size: 1953514552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk2: [8,96] (sdg) SAMSUNG HD204UI S2HFJ9CZA00326 size: 1953514552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk3: [8,176] (sdl) WDC WD10EACS-00Z WD-WCASJ1695946 size: 976762552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk4: [8,192] (sdm) SAMSUNG HD204UI S2HFJ9BZA00817 size: 1953514552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk5: [8,64] (sde) SAMSUNG HD204UI S2HGJ90Z906573 size: 1953514552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk6: [8,0] (sda) WDC WD10EACS-00Z WD-WCASJ1699821 size: 976762552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk7: [8,32] (sdc) WDC WD20EARS-00M WD-WCAZA2920888 size: 1953514552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk8: [8,16] (sdb) SAMSUNG HD103SI S1VSJ90S573052 size: 976762552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk9: [8,80] (sdf) SAMSUNG HD103SI S1VSJ90S573490 size: 976762552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk10: [8,112] (sdh) ST31500341AS 9VS2BC09 size: 1465138552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk11: [65,0] (sdq) ST31500341AS 9VS299T1 size: 1465138552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk12: [8,240] (sdp) ST31500341AS 9VS2B9ZW size: 1465138552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk13: [8,208] (sdn) ST31500341AS 9VS2NKHC size: 1465138552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk14: [8,48] (sdd) ST31500341AS 9VS2N1C3 size: 1465138552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk15: [65,16] (sdr) ST31500341AS 9VS2N6RH size: 1465138552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk16: [8,224] (sdo) ST31500341AS 9VS2NKCP size: 1465138552 Dec 14 17:19:40 Tower kernel: md: import disk17: [8,144] (sdj) ST32000542AS 5XW0E6Z4 size: 1953514552 You can observe yourself some correlations there. Then you search the syslog I will start with devices attached to pci bus pci-0000:02:00.0 - these are (in your case and it may change if you change your configuration, especially adding anew controller) sda to sdh. From the inventory you can see where each drive is connected (to physical ports - the cable should have labels on them). These are your host0. Once you search the syslog for pci-0000:02:00.0 you will find their ataXX connection. In the syslog it starts from here: Dec 14 17:19:39 Tower kernel: mvsas 0000:02:00.0: mvsas: driver version 0.8.4 all the way to: Dec 14 17:19:39 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:7:0: [sdh] Attached SCSI disk These are your ata1 to ata8 Then we move to the HD attached to pci-0000:03:00.0 These are attached to your second SM SASLP card -one on the primary channel and 4 on the secondary. These are sdj to sdn. These are also host2 The interesting entries for pci-0000:03:00.0 starts from here: Dec 14 17:19:39 Tower kernel: mvsas 0000:03:00.0: mvsas: driver version 0.8.4 and goes down to: Dec 14 17:19:39 Tower kernel: sd 2:0:4:0: [sdn] Attached SCSI disk You will see that these are ata9 to ata13 The devices attached to pci-0000:00:11.0 are your motherboard SATA ports. These are sdo to sds. They are individual hosts. You have used your MB sata1 to sata3 ports, sata4 is not used and then sata5 and 6 are used again. These correspond to your ata14 to ata19. ata17 is unused Hope that clears it a bit for you. in your case sda is ata1 is md6 is disk6 is 6 All these "assignments" from the current syslog can change especially if you add a new controller.

ata19 is your parity disk (currently) sds - attached to port 5(or 6 - in the syslog they are numbered 0 to 5, on the MB they are probably labeled 1 to 6) on the motherboard I believe ata 18 is the Seagate 9VS2N6RH - sdr - attached to the MB port 4 (probably labeled as 5 on the motherboard)

You have (if I remember right) a server with port multipliers and external boxes. You know that the power supply in these enclosures can become bad, or a cable loose... And I suspect something is wrong with your configuration if you have seen so many bad WD disks.

The cards are still available. I did not post or reply to any of the PMs as I currently have a problem with one package due , I believe, to gross error from USPS and was not in the mood for any shipments, even less the international ones.

Still available.

Or perhaps the statistics related to the incidence of ECC errors will manifest due to: 1. generally increased size of memory used in the newer systems; 2. increased time for performing these critical operation as the size of the HD has been increased tremendously and the possibility for bit-flips due to either natural occurrence or power glitches on non-UPS protected systems. In that relation I should mention the very high percentage of bad hard drives experienced by some users contrary to limited snippets of industry info - but if one preclears a 2TB HD 3 times it will read 12TB of data (coincidentally this is exactly the statistical value for NRRE - 10E14 bits for the consumer level disks). And this procedure will take 3 and a half days - enough time for power glitches, bit-flips to manifest themself... Now imagine the persons claiming to perform a 6, 7 or more passes on their older hardware...without ECC and UPS....

Deal is back ON as Shell Shocker. Just a questions to the people that received theirs - the part number in the invoice ends with "R" - in the Newegg tradition this is re-certified, refurbished, returned unit. Did you get a brand new ones???

Not sure what happened - probably some price error that was corrected immediately when someone tried to buy. I had one, then changed to 5 and then to 50 - it did show in stock. Then I posted it here (had to logoff first one in the cart) and then it was gone...

From amazon.com here - http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004QMA882/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&qid=1322617786&sr=8-2&condition=new As far as I can see they are no limits. And I believe this has not been posted elsewhere - so enjoy while you can at the current market conditions

If "nobody cared" for IRQ18 one should take care and flash the BIOS to the latest available, then load the default values, then disabling any unused hardware features and then check out if this has gone away.

With 2TB HDs limit one can use the older generation RAID controllers (with onboard memory and BBUs) - probably way way cheaper than one Areca 16 ports.

Anyone with recent experience on how well Newegg packs and ships multiple HDs

These are available on Ebay for $230-250 with free shipping - just search for the HP MicroServer The difference can be in the size of the included hard drive but it is 160-250GB so you will remove this one anyway.

The controllers are basically the same. They are system pulls and will work - no problems there. The problem is that these pulls are often from 1U or 2U servers and as such they come without brackets. So the only thing that you should be aware is to make sure that the controller comes with bracket (either full height or low profile depending from your case) as these are with non-standard location on the mounting holes and are basically very expensive to find. For example the cheapest one on EBay is $11 shipped - http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=bracket+BR10i&_sacat=0&_odkw=bracket+BR10i&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

If you want a small server you probably wont find a better value from the HP Microserver: They are available on Ebay for $230-250 - one example is here: http://www.ebay.com/itm/612275-001-HP-ProLiant-MicroServer-612275-001-Entry-level-Server-Ult-Mcro-Tower-/220885425346?pt=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item336dcc1cc2 You will get ECC memory support (non existent with any motherboard using SODIMMs), small and efficient PSU (almost impossible to find in this power range) If you want you can upgrade the RAM (I believe they come by default with 1GB only) but keep using the ECC Pair this server with a tiny 350-500VA UPS and it is almost guaranteed that you wont have to visit the support forums that often. Search here for people using them and you will find a plenty of info.

I have the following PCIe SATA controllers for sale: 1. Two almost new (just used briefly for testing) SUPERMICRO AOC-SASLP-MV8 PCI Express x4 Low Profile SAS RAID Controllers. Price: $90 shipped continental USA / international shipping add $10 more 2. One used IBM BR10i PCI3 x8 with bracket - flashed with LSI IT firmware. Was used until few months ago when I upgraded to M1015. This one will support hard drives up to 2.2TB Price: $50 shipped continental USA / international shipping add $10 more Both controllers require the use of SFF8087 Breakout cables. I also do have these cables (only Forward Breakout to 4 SATA with latch) available for $10 each without extra charge if purchased with controller (max 2 per controller) I also have four Reverse breakout cables (usable for Norco cases only) at $10 each shipped.

You have a HPA (you probably have an older Gigabyte Motherboard) on one of your hard disks. You need to fix that in order to upgrade to 4.7