February 6, 200818 yr I have an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe MB and would like to use with unRaid. (This is not exactly the same as the P4C800-E Deluxe that I have seen referenced positively. I know that the -E uses a different LAN chip.) The P4C800 Deluxe has the following: 3COM 3C940 - Gigabit LAN ICH5 - 2 IDE Ports (4 drives) + 2 SATA150 Ports Promise PDC20378 (SATA378) - 1 IDE Port (2 drives) + 2 SATA150 Ports After doing a bunch of searching, I know that the ICH5 is supported, and am pretty sure the Promise is also. Can someone confirm? I want to run all 10 drives if possible. I could find no reference to the 3COM Gigabit LAN. Is this supported or would I have to install the standalone Netgear Card? Anything else to be concerned about as far as compatibility? Thanks!
February 6, 200818 yr Author Ok - lots of views and no answers. Maybe NLS and I are the first ones trying unRaid with this MB. Is there any danger in making the USB boot drive and booting it up as a quick test. Is there a way that I can tell if the LAN card is supported and it can see all the hard drives without it formatting hard drives or otherwise messing up my current Windows install. BTW, Circuit City has 500GB Seagate SATA (or PATA) drives on sale for $105 this week. Regularly $150.
February 7, 200818 yr Yes, you can boot your flash drive and see if everything is recognized. You will probably either have to press some function key to boot from the flash drive or set your bios to boot from it. If all the disks are recognized they will appear as possible choices for assignment on the "Devices" management page. Just DO NOT assign any of your existing drives to any slot (parity or otherwise) and do not "Start" the array. Once you see that the drives are recognized, use the button provided to shut down, remove the usb flash drive, and you will be back in windows. Joe L.
February 7, 200818 yr I have the P4C800E. Like you said, it's a bit different from your board. But probably just the onborad nic. Everything else seems identical. Mine works fine with no issues for over a year. Never had a failure.
February 7, 200818 yr Author It works! It sees all 7 of my existing drives on both the ICH5 and SATA378 controllers. The 3COM 3C940 network adapter is also working. It grabs an IP via DHCP - no problem at all. I just did some figuring, - when I'm all done, I'll have 3T of usable storage space + one 500G ($100) parity drive. Only downside of moving from Windows to Unix is I have to move my SageTV server to another machine, along with my whole-house music server. Instead of having one computer on all the time, I'll have two. Oh well, they're in the basement and not bothering anyone. To boot off the USB, all I had to do was go to the boot menu and bring up the list of hard disks. The "UNRAID" (USB) volume was listed, and by moving it to the top of the list of drives it became the bootable hard disk. This was very easy on this MB. One small piece of advice to others setting this up, be careful when you unzip the unRAID OS to your USB stick that you keep the subdirectory structure! Now comes the challenge of moving data to the tower. The computer that will be the tower is currently the file server. I'll set up 3 500G drives as part of the initial array. Is there an easy way to copy files from a non-array drive local to the same machine? I figure the answer is "no" but thought I'd ask before I have to do a rather ugly serious of gyrations. Any pointers as to a painless way to load the array? I suppose this transfer is going to take some serious wall clock time, not to mention juggling drives between computers. Also, is there a tool that will zero out drives to save time when adding them to the array? BTW, besides the $105 500G Seagate drives on sale at Circuit City, they also have 1G Kingston USB stick on sale for a little less that $7 (regularly $24). It has a 5 yr warranty, and is one of Limewire's recommended brands. It also has the required serial number to register unRAID. Cheers!
February 7, 200818 yr It works! Congratulations! ... and is one of Limewire's recommended brands ... Well, now we know where you got your music. Bill
February 8, 200818 yr Author Oops - All those green citrus companies sound alike. Actually don't use any of those peer sharing networks - too risky and besides, I like my music lossless (WavPack).
February 12, 200818 yr To move the data from a previous file server to a new unRAID box, I bought an IDE/SATA2USB device then transfered everything on via the network, there's also some king of linux magic command line but I'm not that good with linux for the moment, I preferred the safe (known) windows way to move my precious data
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