adammerkley

Exactly. I haven't tried it, but I'm ASSUMING it won't POST without a video card attached. I currently have an older NVidia PCI-E card in mine, but I'm planning on throwing a fanless PCI card in at somepoint, freeing up all 3 PCI-E slots for SATA controllers.

That's actually the board that I'm using now. It has 3 PCI-Express slots FYI. You need to modify the syslinux.cfg and go script with the lines that I mentioned in this thread: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=16860.0.

And, if you absolutely hate the side window, Antec sells the window-less panel.

Would you take 2x250GB, 1x300GB and 1x160GB for the 1TB drive? All are WD drives.

It could also be that only the first 4 SATA ports on your mobo operate in AHCI, while the rest operate in emulation. I had a Gigabyte board with 6 onboard SATA ports. To make the 5th and 6th port work, the entire SATA controller had to be put into emulation mode.

I have price trackers setup on camelcamelcamel.com to alert me when 2TB drives are <$100 and when 3TB are less than <$150.

Just to double-check, this drive I received as an RMA from Seagate is good to go, right? ========================================================================1.13 == invoked as: ./preclear_disk.sh -A -M 4 -c 3 /dev/sda == ST31500341AS [REDACTED] == Disk /dev/sda has been successfully precleared == with a starting sector of 64 == Ran 3 cycles == == Using :Read block size = 8225280 Bytes == Last Cycle's Pre Read Time : 4:34:52 (90 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Zeroing time : 4:16:25 (97 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Post Read Time : 10:33:57 (39 MB/s) == Last Cycle's Total Time : 14:51:28 == == Total Elapsed Time 49:09:41 == == Disk Start Temperature: 39C == == Current Disk Temperature: 40C, == ============================================================================ ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sda /tmp/smart_finish_sda ATTRIBUTE NEW_VAL OLD_VAL FAILURE_THRESHOLD STATUS RAW_VALUE Raw_Read_Error_Rate = 111 116 6 ok 37320087 Spin_Retry_Count = 100 100 97 near_thresh 0 End-to-End_Error = 100 100 99 near_thresh 0 High_Fly_Writes = 96 100 0 ok 4 Airflow_Temperature_Cel = 60 61 45 near_thresh 40 Temperature_Celsius = 40 39 0 ok 40 Hardware_ECC_Recovered = 65 62 0 ok 37320087 No SMART attributes are FAILING_NOW 0 sectors were pending re-allocation before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after pre-read in cycle 1 of 3. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 1 of 3. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after post-read in cycle 1 of 3. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 2 of 3. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after post-read in cycle 2 of 3. 0 sectors were pending re-allocation after zero of disk in cycle 3 of 3. 0 sectors are pending re-allocation at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors pending re-allocation did not change. 0 sectors had been re-allocated before the start of the preclear. 0 sectors are re-allocated at the end of the preclear, the number of sectors re-allocated did not change. ============================================================================

I sent in a WD20EARS a few days ago and just got the email that they're replacing it with... another WD20EARS. Maybe that's a sign that the supply is getting better?

So the drive temp doesn't get too hot during preclears?

You sir are a GENIUS! Thank you SO MUCH! All 8 SATA ports are alive and well now! Going to do some testing, but, this is VERY encouraging. EDIT: For future reference, this is the working go script: #!/bin/bash # Trying to load the Marvell controller... rmmod pata_marvell rmmod ahci modprobe ahci marvell_enable=1 # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & # Load UnMENU /boot/unmenu/uu # Auto-Install any packages that are set to install upon reboot... cd /boot/packages && find . -name '*.auto_install' -type f -print | sort | xargs -n1 sh -c

Yup, but the drives on the Marvell controller still never appear. Oh well, like others on the forum, I've given up on trying to get all 8 SATA ports on this mobo recognized. I'll use the 4 Intel SATA ports, and add additional via the 3 PCI-E ports.

I found this thread, which gives some advise with some commands to try: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6536.10 Before running those commands, preclear_disk.sh -l produces this: root@Tower:/boot# preclear_disk.sh -l ====================================1.13 Disks not assigned to the unRAID array (potential candidates for clearing) ======================================== No un-assigned disks detected But after running those commands, you get this: root@Tower:/boot# rmmod pata_marvell root@Tower:/boot# rmmod ahci root@Tower:/boot# modprobe ahci marvell_enable=1 root@Tower:/boot# preclear_disk.sh -l ====================================1.13 Disks not assigned to the unRAID array (potential candidates for clearing) ======================================== /dev/sdb = ata-ST2000DL003-9VT166_5YD13T6M That seems like progress, but the device assignment page in the web console still doesn't list the drives attached to the Marvell ports. Also, changing syslinux.cfg to include the following does nothing: append initrd=bzroot ahci.marvell_enable=1

Has anybody had any luck getting the blue Marvell SATA ports working in Unraid 4.7 or higher? I read through some old posts and it appears they stopped working around 4.5.1. My server is currently using a different board, but I'd love to use the D975XBX2 that I have gathering dust instead, since it could theoretically have 8 onboard SATA, plus has 3 PCI-E slots! Edit To Add: Could this thread hold the key? http://old.nabble.com/How-to-get-a-Marvell-88SE6145-%28and-probably-6121%29-sata-controller%09working-on-new-kernels-td20079927.html I'm not seeing an options file in /etc/modprobe.d/ though: root@Tower:/etc/modprobe.d# ls blacklist.conf isapnp.conf modprobe.conf@ psmouse.conf usb-controller.conf

Doh! I would have preferred to have slept in and buy these. Instead, I got a few of the 2TB Seagate LP drives that Office Depot had for $69.99. It's funny how dependent on UnRaid my wife has become. If I mention that we're running low on storage space, it's the one technical purchase that she'll wholeheartedly endorse!

Office Depot will have the Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB internal for $69.99 on Black Friday. Regular price $159.99

I've been lurking for a few years. Never had anything to add I guess!

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