Philmatic

Sorry, I'm just a user FROM ServeTheHome who found this thread from their forums, just saying hi and thanking you for this thread.

Hi everyone, I'm not a unRAID user, but I've been following this thread because I own three IBM M1015's as part of my Norco RPC-4224 build for WHS 2011. I'm only here to show my appreciation for the awesome work that you guys have done in figuring all this out, to report my findings and to provide a few images that I was able to capture using my IPMI enabled iKVM session. I first attempted to flash my M1015's using the LSI MegaRAID to SAS2008(P11).zip file in the root. I received the "Failed to initialize PAL" on my brand spanking new SuperMicro X9SCM. So I tried the next best desktop I had, which was my Dell Studio 540, a Intel based Core 2 chipset, where I also recieved the "Failed to initialize PAL" error when attempting to flash IT mode (5IT.bat). My last hope was my old WHS v1 server, which is a A8N32-SLI Deluxe and runs a now ancient NVIDIA nForce 4 chipset. It has three PCI Express v1 slots, two full x16s and one x4. So I dropped the M1015 in my second x16 solt (Since the first had my video card in it) and BOOM it instantly flashed! I received some "PCIE warnings", probably because it kept finding my video card, but it worked fine nonetheless. Yippie! I did the other two cards and life is good again. I disabled the "Boot support" in the LSI bios like madburg suggested, and that's why I captured these screenshots. My motherboard has KVM over IP functionality so I can remotely see BIOS screens and start up, reboot and shutdown the machine over IP. It's great. One of a nice features is the ability to capture screenshots through the iKVM console. I figured madburg could use these to illustrate what to disable in the OP instead of his photo of his "defective" monitor. Before: After: Sorry for the lossy JPG compression, it's all that the iKVM console supports. It didn't occur to me to just take a normal desktop screenshot, crop and save to png. I'll do that tomorrow. I'm in the middle of transferring 18TB of data, so I would rather not interrupt it. Thanks Again! And hi from ServeTheHome.com!