Asus A7N8X

[johnm160]

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.

[orb]

A7N8X ?

 

That's the board I use in my unRAID.

[johnm160]

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

[orb]

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.

[orb]

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.

[johnm160]

Thanks orb,

 

I am getting ready to add some sata drives soon

[nickn]

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.

[Vynce]

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

[nickn]

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