Configuring Adaptec 1430sa

[trurl]

I just added an Adaptec 1430sa to my build to prepare it for future expansion, and attached an old 160GB drive to it for testing. Precleared last night and everything seems OK but have not added it to the array yet.

 

I've seen comments about disabling the BIOS on this card but no details on how to do this. The mobo BIOS doesn't seem to have any way to disable the Adaptec BIOS, and if I go into BIOS setup for the Adaptec it doesn't have anything for disabling it either. Does "disable" just mean make sure it is not setup for RAID? It is already reporting JBOD which I think must be the default and the only possibility since I only have one drive attached to it.

 

I also notice in the syslog that this drive is "sata_mv" instead of "ahci" like the 4 drives on the mobo.

 

Just want to make sure I have set this up correctly.

 

Here is the filtered syslog for this drive from unMenu:

Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: scsi7 : sata_mv (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: ata7: SATA max UDMA/133 mmio m1048576@0xf9f00000 port 0xf9f22000 irq 19 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: ata7: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: ata7.00: ATA-7: ST3160812AS, 3.AHL, max UDMA/100 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: ata7.00: 312581808 sectors, multi 0: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: ata7.00: configured for UDMA/100 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access     ATA      ST3160812AS      3.AH PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] 312581808 512-byte logical blocks: (160 GB/149 GiB) (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel:  sde: sde1 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:08 unSERVER kernel: sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:10 unSERVER emhttp: pci-0000:02:00.0-scsi-0:0:0:0 host7 (sde) ST3160812AS_5LSB9HLW (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:10 unSERVER kernel: md: unRAID driver 1.1.1 installed (System)
Apr 26 23:27:10 unSERVER kernel: md: import disk0: [8,16] (sdb) ST2000DL003-9VT1 5YD1A5DL size: 1953514552 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:10 unSERVER kernel: md: import disk1: [8,32] (sdc) ST2000DL003-9VT1 5YD1C5H9 size: 1953514552 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:10 unSERVER kernel: md: import disk2: [8,48] (sdd) ST2000DL003-9VT1 5YD17WWD size: 1953514552 (Drive related)
Apr 26 23:27:10 unSERVER kernel: md: recovery thread woken up ... (unRAID engine)
Apr 26 23:27:10 unSERVER kernel: md: recovery thread has nothing to resync (unRAID engine)
Apr 26 23:36:44 unSERVER kernel:  sde: sde1 (Drive related)
Apr 27 01:16:37 unSERVER kernel:  sde: sde1 (Drive related)
Apr 27 03:16:40 unSERVER preclear_disk-diff[14673]: == invoked as: ./preclear_disk.sh /dev/sde (Misc)
Apr 27 03:16:40 unSERVER preclear_disk-diff[14673]: == Disk /dev/sde has been successfully precleared (Misc)
Apr 27 03:16:40 unSERVER preclear_disk-diff[14673]: ** Changed attributes in files: /tmp/smart_start_sde  /tmp/smart_finish_sde (Misc)
Apr 27 03:16:40 unSERVER preclear_disk-diff[14673]: == S.M.A.R.T Initial Report for /dev/sde  (Misc)
Apr 27 03:16:40 unSERVER preclear_disk-diff[14673]: Disk: /dev/sde (Misc)
Apr 27 03:16:40 unSERVER preclear_disk-diff[14673]: == S.M.A.R.T Final Report for /dev/sde  (Misc)
Apr 27 03:16:40 unSERVER preclear_disk-diff[14673]: Disk: /dev/sde (Misc)

[Rajahal]

The syslog snippet looks quite normal to me, so I'm guessing that you have it configured correctly.  Perhaps the BIOS changes are only needed if you are using more than one port on the card.