I changed it against 2 Adaptec 1220SA adapters and this setup was working without any further hassle (attached to the 2 x PCIe x1 slots, so that I have the PCIe 2.0 x16 slot still available)

 

Where are you living? If in Germany I can send my card over for testing purpose before you spend any money and time.

 

Cheers

 

I live in South Africa - shipping will probably be too expensive, but thanks for the offer!

 

I'm trying to squeeze 10 sata ports out of one PCIe x1 slot and one PCIe x16 slot. And the two Lian Li cards would have worked perfectly, especially since I can buy them locally. The other option is to get one 2 port Adaptec 1220SA and then get an 8 port card for the other slot, but my options are rather limited. The SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 looks like it would do the job, but I can't find a local supplier.

 

Maybe there is still someone else out there that have tried this card in unRaid 5. Would be a pity if it was working correctly in unRaid 4 and no longer works in the newer version.

 

 

From an email:

 

I was wondering if unRAID supports the Lian Li IB-01 PCI Express controller card and will continue to do so in the version 5 release.

 

From the forums it looks like this card works on version 4 of unRAID but no longer works on version 5.

 

Are there any plans to add back support for this card?

 

There's a thread talking about that card here:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=4569.0

 

This is a strange card - apparently it uses a 2-port sata controller chip where one port is wired to the external connector and the other is wired to a port multiplier that provides the internal sata connections.  The JMicron chipset and port multiplier support is, and has been, configured in the unRaid linux kernel for a long time, so I guess I don't know what to say about this.  If it worked ok in 4.7 but is not working correctly in 5.0 then something changed in the linux driver for that device (obviously).  I do know that there is a lot of activity to change drivers over to a "new method" of error reporting, so maybe this will be noticed and fixed in a future kernel release.

 

Moving forward I would say this: there are a number of 1- and 2-port sata cards designed during the "transition" period when sata was overtaking ide (e.g., that JMicron chipset).  In future builds I would avoid those cards because there is less and less interest in the free software community to keep supporting them.  They are cheap for a reason, just sayin'.....

Thanks for the reply, Tom.

 

I already have a problem with my current cheap controllers (old Marvell chipset) - they work in Linux kernel version 2.6.24, but refuse to work in any newer kernels so I can't upgrade.

 

I'd rather not have a similar problem with these ones, where support is dropped by the Linux community and I'm stuck, so I think I'd rather look at an alternative solution.