I Emailed my questions to Tom, but I'm afraid he's too busy to get back to me, so I thought I would post it here. Thank you for your help.

 

The product seems great but I'm holding off transfering all my data just

yet. I'm running into stability issues. I am using the Abit AB9 Pro. Out

of the box it was fairly unstable. I updated the Bios and here are my

notes:

 

Here is the page link to the bios details, it may help UnRAID support

this board better.

http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/en/download/download_bios_detail.php?pFILE_TYPE=Bios&pMAIN_TYPE=Motherboard&pTITLE_ON_SCREEN=AB9+Pro&pSOCKET_TYPE=LGA775

 

Bios m516a22(latest bios)

If you notice the JMicron has been updated.

1. The bios recognised my HDD during bootup connected to the JMicron.

Unraid does not recognise SATA drives connected to the JMicron

controller. Does Unraid's driver need to be upgraded?

2. I had to set the BIOS to USB-LS/ZIP for it to boot UnRAID from the

USB. Prior to the bios update USB-FDD worked. (just a note)

3.Having troubles setting unRAID as a static IP. Everything is behind a

Linksys WRT54GL router. router Settings?

4.UnRAID management utility isn't accessible through firefox in Ubuntu?

5. If I turn off my router and cable modem, or the power goes out, I

have to start up the server again manually. But it is inaccessible

through the management utility. How do I reboot the server through

another PC without being able to access the management utility?

6. Is is possible to "Wake Up" the UnRAID server through the LAN?

 

Mark

I'm using the same motherboard, not sure what bios version i have. Updated it when i first got it (about 8 months ago). I've been running unraid 4.0

perfectly fine but there is a problem with the JMicron controller with 4.2.

 

Tom is aware of this problem and its going to be looked at.

 

You could try running 4.0 and see if everything works with that. I've got 8 drives running on the motherboard controllers and another 4 on a promise sata controller

and everything works great.

 

Mark

 

Hi Mark,

 

Are you using 4.0 then?

I will try 4.0 out and post my results.

any special Bios settings? Did you disable NIC port 2?

Yeah i am using 4.0 without any problems.

 

Don't think there were any special bios settings apart from setting SATA mode to AHCI.

I do believe i disabled anything that was not going to be used, NIC2, audio etc etc but that should not matter

 

My current driver layout is

 

6 on the intel controller

2 on the jmicron controller

4 on a PCI promise controller.

 

Mark

I am going to try 4.0.

Mark, could you find out what Bios your using? I am using the latest Bios (22)

I was about to buy this motherboard. Has this issue been resolved? Should I be worried about it?

I'm running on bios 23.  Don't have SATA connected to the JMicron port, but I do have an ide drive.  It had some issues with an earlier kernel (this was with a full slackware linux install, I don't know if unRAID ever used the same bios), I was able to fix it by appending the irqpoll option to the kernel.  Anyways it's working fine with the latest unRAID (tried with both 4.3 beta5 and beta6).

 

It would not play nicely with a Promise Ultra66 card.  Had lots of small issues pop up, then a corrupted hard drive.  It actually seemed to work ok if no drive was connected to the Ultra66, but as soon as I plugged one back in the wackiness returned.

 

As for having it come back on after a power failure, there's an option in the bios to do that.  I think it's under Power Settings, it's a setting that tells it what to do after the power's restored.  You can choose for it to stay off, power on, or last state (i.e. if it was on turn back on, if off stay off).  If you're connected to a UPS I'd have it set to Power On.  If not then it depends on what kind of power outages you have.  Where I live, it tends to flicker on and off several times in a ten minute or so span, so if it wasn't on a UPS I'd probably want it to stay off (else it'll try to boot only to have the power cut out again, times five or so times).

One point I noticed with this motherboard and the bios settings were the memory.

There were reports of finicky memory.

I was having some difficulty and I noticed the default bios setting for memory speed was 272 Mhz. 

I manually reset that to 266Mhz and the system became more stable.

 

I'm using 4.3 Beta 6

I tested the Jmicron port with a port multiplier and it seemed to work.

I set the JMICRON to AHCI in the bios in order for it to work.

However, when I used a port multiplier in one port and a hard drive in the other port, there were issues.

 

I disabled the second NIC port so that the IRQ was free for other devices.

In my environment, I did not have to use IRQPOLL.