Just started my first unraid server with an Asus A7X8N. It booted, found the NIC and drives right away. I have not plugged in a SATA drive yet do I am unsure if it recognizes the onboard promise sata controller.

 

I already love this thing, it is so much faster then my SimpleShare NAS.

 

 

Edited to correct model number.

A7N8X ?

 

That's the board I use in my unRAID.

A7N8X ?

 

That's the board I use in my unRAID.

 

Yeah, Thanks, must have been having on of my "special" moments when I typed that, I fixed it now.

 

I have two questions for you;

 

Does Unraid recognize the onboard SATA?

 

Do you see any difference using either of the onboard NIC's?

 

John

Sata works perfectly (i have the latest 1008 bios modified with newer sil3112 firmware but it always worked before that)

Both NIC, but I added a pci Gigabit card for convenience.

Sata works perfectly (i have the latest 1008 bios modified with newer sil3112 firmware but it always worked before that)

Both NIC ok, but I added a pci Gigabit card for convenience.

Thanks orb,

 

I am getting ready to add some sata drives soon

Orb:

I have the same motherboard, and was thinking of using it to run Unraid as a starter system.

 

With a Sandisk cruzer micro 512mb, it wouldn't boot no matter what BIOS option I tried.  Did you have to use the usb 1.1 hub and PQI 1.1 usb stick to get it to boot? I was reading up on your system in another thread, that's why I'm asking.

Did you try doing a syslinux -ma <drive letter> on your USB stick? This adds an MBR and marks the partition as active.

Doing the -ma with syslinux helped.  It's up and running now.  Thanks.