I'm wondering if anyone has a similar setup working on RC4, and what all they needed to change in their BIOs (if anything).

 

I just bought these parts, but they haven't arrived yet. Upgrading from my old AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards. I've heard one complaint of boot issues after you add more than 2 cards and now i'm slightly worried that i'll put together this ~$700 build and have problems. My main reason for upgrading was getting off of the PCI-X interface, and with the SAS2LP running in PCI-E 2.0 x4 (due to the motherboard), that should be 2GBps of bandwidth, far more than 8x green drives will ever use. Right now i'm getting ~60MB/s parity syncs, and with 3TB drives it takes awhile, hoping for 80-90MB/s on this.

 

Anyone care to ease my worries while I wait ~15 days for my SAS2LPs to ship?

i hope so...i am looking to move from a 3ware 9650se-24m8 to 3x AOC-SAS2LP-MV8 in my Norco 4224 case.

 

where did you order your cards from?

Provantage, but they state up to 18 days or something for them to ship. I got all my hardware, still waiting for them to ship. I would be crushed if this didn't work for some reason, by the time these ship i'll probably be over my 30 day return for the other hardware.

 

I assume it will work, I emailed them and they said it would. The motherboard and SAS cards are the same brand, it would be crazy if they didn't test this setup.

i just ordered one m1015 to try out.  make sure you let us all know once you get them how they worked.

 

i would like to get them as well.

Check in the uraid Compulsive Design threads. Many knowledgeable people there who use this motherboard.

If memory serves, boot issues are corrected by disability the 'int 13' in each card (don't load each of the cards bios at boot - will allow them to still work as HBAs).

 

The M1015 works well in the X9SCM (I have 1, and 1 Arcea Raid controller) and a dual nic (so 3 of the 4 PCIe slots used) and it works great.