UnCorp

I have been trying this all day, following every advice on differrent threads, but I can't seem to boot in legacy mode. - originally created an UEFI compatible USB and installed unraid 6.10 - using unraid for 3 months, without a problem - when trying to boot to unraid OS GUI mode (using external monitor), I get the famous black screen with black cursor - when passing through a GPU in W10 VM, it doesn't work - famous error 43 or something.... So, naturally I tried changing the boot from UEFI to Legacy: - CSM was already enabled in BIOS - added "-" to EFI folder on the USB - but been getting "not bootable disk" message on startup, no matter if I select the USB as a first boot device, or pressing F11 and manually selecting the USB to boot (not UEFI USB) - ran "Make bootable.bat" as administrator in Windows - same result on next boot (not bootable disk) - tried all USB ports on the motherboard (sadly all usb 3.0) and USB 2.0. front port on the case - same error - changed back EFI- to EFI, changed primary boot to UEFI USB, boots normally. Went to flash setting in unraid and unticked UEFI support (I know it does the same, but figured there may be something more to it). Same thing (disk not bootable) - either with 1st boot order USB device or hand picked USB boot device from F11. Ran make bootable again - same thing. I'm slowly loosing it. Renaming the USB folder back from EFI- to EFI and setting UEFI USB as 1st boots device works like a charm. Any Ideas? If the USB is corrupted somehow - wouldn't it be corrupted for UEFI boot also? I haven't done any modifications (or backup/restore) to the USB otherwise in between...

Well, here's what I have found out. You need to press "port up" in the unraid network settings tab for every port to work. I, know, I know.....Duh! I feel sheepy 🙂 One more interesting thing: While almost tearing my pc apart, I've put in an old PCI-e gen 1 GPU in the fist PCI-e x16 slot on my taichi x570, just to attach the monitor, but in that case, the computer did not detect my PCI-e x8 gen2 multiple NIC. It did however detect a mellanox gen3 single port 10GB nic in the same second PCI-e x16 slot. It took me 4 hours to figure that connection out, so maybe it will be useful to someone.

Well, I can answer my own question 🙂 I bought it anyways...unraid can detect the card - If I go to network settings, there are 4 interfaces listed, each with it own MAC address. The problem is, that I can't get the link up - Plugging in the DAC, does nothing, but even plugging into the RJ45 port, i get no lights on the NIC or the switch... Hence the check cable warning in the unraid network settings... Any Ideas in this case?

I've been using Mellanox connect x3 10Gb card without any issues so far. But as it usually happens after the initial I'll never need more than this, I need to expand (yes, physically) I found a hybrid PCIe x8 IBM 00ND479 on eBay (2x 10Gb, 2x 1Gb). I can't seem to find any info on it regarding the chipset. Does anyone know if the card works in unraid? Or does anyone have any experience with this hybrid nics in unraid (from other brands).