March 28, 200818 yr This is an old mobo I decided to turn into an unRaid server along with an MRI 4 channel sata PCI card. After some quirks, it all seems to be working ok - speed tests to come.
March 28, 200818 yr Can you list the quirks and their solution? The only one I already noticed is that I have to force my USB stick as "hard disk" for it to boot automatically (weirdly enough, since syslinux in fact sets it up as floppy). No other setting helped. I am planning to use the exact same mobo. Yes old but quite strong (for the task) and maybe the best when it was released. Since you are clearly a few steps in front of me: 1) Is the gigabit LAN working? 2) Are all SATA ports working? 3) Are all IDE ports working? (I plan on using 4 IDE + 3 SATA initially)
March 28, 200818 yr Author Can you list the quirks and their solution? The only one I already noticed is that I have to force my USB stick as "hard disk" for it to boot automatically (weirdly enough, since syslinux in fact sets it up as floppy). No other setting helped. I am planning to use the exact same mobo. Yes old but quite strong (for the task) and maybe the best when it was released. Since you are clearly a few steps in front of me: 1) Is the gigabit LAN working? 2) Are all SATA ports working? 3) Are all IDE ports working? (I plan on using 4 IDE + 3 SATA initially) Actually, there were no quirks. USB stick was detected in Bios and I simply chose that as 1st boot device. 1) Gigabit Lan is working fine. Its an Intel Pro 1000 so well supported I believe 2) yep I have 4 disks hooked up to the 4 sata controllers (+2 other sata disks on a PCI controller card) 3) I dont have any IDE disks in my setup - I'll try digging out an old one and add it in to test. Cant see why it wouldnt work though. LAN performance seems good, I'm seeing 40MB/s transferring a file from Vista to the unRaid box. (no parity installed yet) I'll install the parity over the next week or so once I've loaded up the drives. Then I'll do some more performance testing, but so far (hardware wise) everything has been a breeze.
March 28, 200818 yr 40MB/s ain't bad at all! Remember to add this: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=965.0 then we talk. Thanks!
March 29, 200818 yr Author Thanks yeah I've added that tweak. The 40MB/s was writing btw.. haven't tested read yet.
March 29, 200818 yr Actually, there were no quirks. USB stick was detected in Bios and I simply chose that as 1st boot device. 1) Gigabit Lan is working fine. Its an Intel Pro 1000 so well supported I believe 2) yep I have 4 disks hooked up to the 4 sata controllers (+2 other sata disks on a PCI controller card) 3) I dont have any IDE disks in my setup - I'll try digging out an old one and add it in to test. Cant see why it wouldnt work though. LAN performance seems good, I'm seeing 40MB/s transferring a file from Vista to the unRaid box. (no parity installed yet) I'll install the parity over the next week or so once I've loaded up the drives. Then I'll do some more performance testing, but so far (hardware wise) everything has been a breeze. I have this MB and used with unRAID for several months. Actually mine is the P4C800 Deluxe (no "-E"). The "-E" is better because it does NOT have the gigabit lan on the PCI bus like mine. The MB has 4 SATA ports - 2 on the ICH5 and 2 on an onboard Promise controller. The promise controller SATA ports are on the PCI bus. The MB has 3 IDE channels (up to 6 drives), two on ICH5 and one on the onboard promise controller. Same deal, the Promise controller ports are on the PCI bus. Expansion is limited to PCI slots (no PCI-E or PCI-X slots). All expansion drives are on the PCI bus. I had 5 IDE + 8 SATA. 7 of the drives were on the PCI bus, 6 used the high speed (ICH5) bus. The parity rebuild speed was about 12MB/sec, and sped up as smaller drives completed. Read performance was great once parity was built. I would recommend this motherboard for people with lots of IDE drives that they want to use in the array. The SATA support is weaker, but 4 ports is not bad. You'll have to realize that building parity will be slow, but it is a solid motherboard that lets you attach 10 drives without expansion.
March 29, 200818 yr 12KB/sec? ...now that doesn't look TOO good when your parity disk (and larger array disk) is 750GB 2 years to build parity (in my case)? something is wrong?
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