May 29, 201214 yr After playing around with BIOS settings I got this card working in this motherboard's x16 video card slot. (It's an x8 hard disk controller.) I am doing a preclear on a 250GB Hard Drive now hooked up to the first port of this IBM BR10i eight port controller.
May 30, 201214 yr Author I have my 3 drive array (parity, disk1, disk2) entirely on the BR10i now--moved them from the 3 motherboard sata connectors. Booted up unRaid, mounted the array--works! Good performance and writes seem faster (35MB/s in some cases on large file) with the entire array on the BR10i vs motherboard sata ports.
May 30, 201214 yr Author Loving this controller. Just copied an entire 4.5GB file over to a Windows 7 machine in less than a minute. It was copying over at the full bandwidth of 1 gigabit ethernet. I really thought this card was not going to work with this motherboard lol.
May 30, 201214 yr Author Doing a parity check on this 3 drive array now on my IBM BR10i controller. It's going along at like 72MB/s--does this sound right? I think I was getting over 100MB/s when I did a parity check with 2 drive array on my motherboard's sata controlelrs.
May 30, 201214 yr Author Is there a way to find out how many lanes the IBM BR10i is actually able to utilize on this x16 graphics card slot?
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