Todd248

Mine passed preclear without issue. Also, had to chime in about the hdd of the past. I bought a 420MB WD drive for $550 when they first came out!

Best deal I have seen in some time, got one at this deal. Don't really need the rails but maybe in the future I will. Ended up being $303 shipped with CA tax.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219033 This looks kind of tempting. They are giving a 69.99 discount and adding a 49.99 hdd. 1. Seagate ST31000528AS: $49.99 2. Norco Technologies Inc. RPC-4220: $334.99 Combo Discount: -$69.99 Combo Price: $314.99 Wish it was a 2TB drive, would jump on that.

Deal is gone this morning..

Oddly I don't see this offer if I click on the case under the main menu but if I search for it on newegg it comes up with this free offer. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219038&Tpk=norco%204224 Free open box HP 337972-B21 PCI-X Serial ATA-150 / SAS Smart Array P600 Controller. I can't find anything the forums about this card being supported. I did find a couple on ebay for sale, one as low as $75. Newegg has this card listed at $299.99. Would be worth it if the card worked with unraid.

I would be but are you sure limetech is ok with that? I think the licensing 2 pack is still 1 user?

Been looking at this and the 4224. I think this changed with the 1pm sale at newegg that started today. $334.99 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219033&cm_re=norco-_-11-219-033-_-Product Not as good as deals in the past though.

I have tried setting the bios to native AHCI, native IDE, navite RAID and legacy for the on board sata controller. None of the settings have worked. I also tried replacing: append initrd=bzroot with append initrd=bzroot ahci.marvell_enable=1 with the bios set to AHCI. That didn't help either. How can I figure out what driver is required for the onboard marvell sata controller and get the driver to load on startup? Thank you, Todd

In the ad it looks like the 2TB version is twice the size of the 1TB version. Could be two 1TB drives in the 2TB version. Drive is near the bottom of page 2 of the ad.

No, not using the P-ATA ports, just trying to use the 4 onboard SATA ports.

Works fine with unraid and has a GUID.

Works with 4.5b13 as reported by another user in another thread. Hasn't worked sense. During the boot process there is output: ata2.00: qc timeout (cmd 0xec) ata2.00: failed to IDENTIFY (I/O error, err_mask=0x4) ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata2: reset failed, giving up ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset ata2: soft reseting link ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata2: soft reseting link ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata2: soft reseting link ata2: link is slow to respond, please be patient (ready=0) ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata2: soft reseting link ata2: SRST failed (errno=-16) ata2: reset failed, giving up ata2: EH complete I have this board and would like to use it for a 20 drive unraid server but I need those 4 extra ports. This is on an Intel D975XBX2KR motherboard. Can this at least get fixed in 5.0 please? Thanks, Todd

At http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139250&cm_re=kingston_4gb-_-20-139-250-_-Product Not sure if it works with unRaid or not. Other Kingston DataTraveler drives do so I am optimistic. Will report back when I receive it.

Good to know about the Norco 4224. The DA1200 has 4 connectors for a total of 12 molex but only comes with 2 cables. I will have to see if I can get an extra 1 or 2 for fans and skip the Y-Splitters. I have done some tests with a kill-a-watt meter and the PSU seems efficient. I have been testing power draw and without drives it is drawing less than 100w. This is an e6700 dual core running at 2.66ghz. I can get it down to 85w if I under clock the cpu to 1.33ghz and disable the second core, but that is a topic for another thread after I do some more searching. The manual for the Toughpower is a bit misleading, it lists the rails in order of max amps instead of in order by rail. The 12V4 only has 18A max before it will shutdown. Regardless, I don't think it will power my 18 drives I currently own.. +12V1 18A Max +12V4 18A Max +12V2 30A Max +12V3 30A Max

I am building a 22 drive beast in a Norco 4224 case. At this point I am still collecting hardware and trying to use as much of what I already have as possible. I've read the PSU faq and if I understand correctly, put simply, a single 12v rail with as much wattage and amps as possible is best. The Thermaltake Toughpower PSU has 4 12V rails. 2 supply the motherboard with up to 48A and 1 supplies all of the sata connections with up to 18A according to the manual. The 4th rail I would not be using as it is for GPU 8 pin connectors. Since these rails are separate, there is no way for me to load balance if I understand the FAQ correctly? The Silverstone DA1200 seems a bit overkill but I already have it. I looked at their website and the marketing speak matches up with what the FAQ is saying is important: Powerful single +12V rail with 90A, 1200W continuous power output rated up to 50?, Efficiency greater than 80% at 20%~100% loading. Will this PSU fit in a Norco 4224 case? It's deeper than most normal PSU (150 mm (W) x 85 mm (H) x 230 mm (D)). Will the 6 standard molex connectors be enough to hook up to the drive cages in the Norco 4224? The 4224 looks like it requires 12 molex connectors, 2 for each row. Will 6 molex Y-splitters work? Am I missing something with the DA1200 and should try to sell it and get a CORSAIR CMPSU-650TX? Thanks! Todd