airic499

Thanks all, Probably would have easily figured it out. But always nice to get some feedback before learning the hard way on a process that can take more than a day. Someone ought to mention it, but one thing I do appreciate about this forum is that (for the most part ;-), no one shoots Noobs for every question.

Thanks jbuszkie, I assume something along the lines of what I have described? What should I expect to see if the process worked? My guess is I add the drive to a RAID slot, then pretty much the only option should be format right?

I am sure I missed this somewhere in the 97 pages, so I apologize in advance if I did, but is there any reason why I can't use my old, now useless for much anything else Ubuntu netbook, plug in a new drive to an external port and pre-clear offline to unRaid, then add the pre-cleared drive to the unRaid box? If I read everything correctly, the preclear routine sets a "cleared" flag. I can only assume that would be recognized by unRaid on startup? I am sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but this is a huge plus to those of us who build these on the fly with DAA (disks as available), any thought as to mainstreaming this or at least making a plugin?

........sorry should have said good PCIe 1X 2 port cards.

Any one know where you can get an internal non jumpered SIL3132 here in the states? Looks like all the sources listed and usual suspects; New Egg, Ebay etc are out of stock. Are there any new suggestions for good compatible cards. Especially for those of us too lazy to risk bricking something by flashing?