February 22, 200818 yr The onboard nVidia ethernet seems to work (so far). I've only put an old Seagate IDE 160gb drive in as parity to test it out thru Windows XP using Explorer. Everythings great so far. Could be a cheap unRaid box as I have 4 IDE and 4 Sata connectors on the MB. I'll update as I go along.
February 23, 200818 yr Author It looks like the onboard nVidia ethernet doesn't like unRaid. It is painfully slow. I am using 3 IDE drives to "learn" unRaid before investing more into it. Anyone have any success with the nVidia ethernet?
February 23, 200818 yr Yes, I and others have used it. In general, nVidia networking chipsets use the forcedeth driver. You might try typing lsmod at a console prompt, and it will show you the loaded modules. Or check the syslog for lines with eth0, one will show the networking driver and version used. In searching the Internet, I gave up trying to find the chipsets for that motherboard and its network chipset. Seems to be a secret... There were reports of trouble with your computer model using forcedeth, and a suggestion to disable Firewire in the BIOS setup, it might want to be setup as eth0.
February 25, 200818 yr Author The problems with the Tranfer rates was caused by crappy old 40-Condutor IDE cables. Replaced them with 80-Conductor cables and everything, including the onboard nVidia Ethernet, is working well. I'm looking forward to getting some 750gb Sata Hdd's to really see how good this unRaid stuff is!
February 25, 200818 yr Author The only problem I seem to have now is that when you need to reboot the system, no matter what settings I use in the Bios, I have to manually tell it to boot the SanDisk USB as it always defaults to the HDD's 1st (meaning I have to pull out a monitor to see what the heck I'm doing. Other than that it's all good so far. Edit: I got it to boot the USB stick auotomatically so outside of adding a gigabit ethernet card, it works great!
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