Blade Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 I need an add-on SATA card for 6 more drives. I have a PCI Express 2.0 X16 slot on the motherboard. Does a card exist for this that will work with unraid? Thx Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted September 18, 2011 Share Posted September 18, 2011 Look at the Supermicro aoc-saslp-mv8. Quote Link to comment
Blade Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 Can someone confirm that this card will work with no issues with unraid 4.7 and above? http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358&Tpk=aoc-saslp-mv8 I want to make sure before I purchase it. Thx Quote Link to comment
prostuff1 Posted September 21, 2011 Share Posted September 21, 2011 Yes it will... it is the card that almost everyone is using. Quote Link to comment
Blade Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 It looks like I need 2 of these as well, correct? http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116097 Quote Link to comment
Blade Posted September 21, 2011 Author Share Posted September 21, 2011 Can someone explain this issue that a user had? Cons: Need to manually set the irq or else will not boot. Other Thoughts: When I first got the card and installed and did not boot got the sinking feeling of an RMA coming. Usually a card just plug and worked but this one did not. Tried moving the card to other slots; switching cables around; increasing the power to the slot. Finally thought why not try irq: but didn't know what was it for the pci-e 4x slot so tried them all. finally it booted into unraid. Quote Link to comment
technojunkie Posted September 22, 2011 Share Posted September 22, 2011 Can someone explain this issue that a user had? Cons: Need to manually set the irq or else will not boot. The controller bios has an option do disable IRQ13(or is it 14?... eh whatever) disabling it prevents the controller from presenting one of its drives as a bootable drive to the system bios. Some systems need this. Others don't. As for the other behavior you mentioned, some motherboards restrict the pcix16 slot to video only, if the card present isn't a display adapter, then the board won't boot. You seem to have figured it out though, just leave the controller in the x 4 slot and you should have no trouble. Quote Link to comment
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