marcusone Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 For those that have an Adaptec 1430SA, I couldn't not get it to work in passthrough mode under ESXi 5 Update 1, on my X8SLI Supermicro motherboard. Tried various options, slots, etc. Quote Link to comment
BobPhoenix Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I had a similar experience with a tuner card in passthrough. I updated my bios on my X9SCM-F and lost my AVerMedia Duet OTA tuner card. It works on the same class MB from Tyan and on the 1.0 bios. You could try a different bios version on your X8SLI if you are allowed to downgrade/upgrade - pay attention to warning messages if you try to downgrade. Wish I had I wouldn't have bricked my original Supermicro X9SCM-F. Quote Link to comment
marcusone Posted August 28, 2012 Author Share Posted August 28, 2012 What I find strange is that passthrough works fine for the 2xM1015 and MV8, but 1xM1015, MV8 and 1430SA and the 1430 throws lots of errors during parity check (otherwise works fine). Quote Link to comment
Johnm Posted August 29, 2012 Share Posted August 29, 2012 Is the adaptec card part of your unraid guest? Does it work in unraid baremetal? Quote Link to comment
marcusone Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 Is the adaptec card part of your unraid guest? Does it work in unraid baremetal? Worked beautiful for last 2 years, past year in current motherboard with an i3, updated to xeon and ESXi and via pass-through errors all over the place only during parity check. Back to bare metal, works fine. Not sure if its an issue with the card, motherboard, ESXi, or likely some combination of motherboard and ESXi pass-through. Quote Link to comment
tranm5 Posted September 16, 2012 Share Posted September 16, 2012 Hi I had similar experience this summer. My setup under ESX 4 passed through the adaptec 1430SA flawlessly to the Unraid guest It worked great until I upgraded my host to Esxi 5U1. Since then I had problems with Unraid and was not able to make it work right under ESXi Finally I build a new physical box for Unraid. I'll give it a try with the new ESXi 5.1 and probably a new controller. Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 ...updated to xeon... Which Xeon did you upgrade to? Was it an Ivy Bridge? Quote Link to comment
marcusone Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 ...updated to xeon... Which Xeon did you upgrade to? Was it an Ivy Bridge? Yes Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I just built an ESXi system based on what others had done except I bought the newer V2 Xeon 1230 which is Ivy Bridge. The other systems that worked had Sandy Bridge processors. Mine refused to allow all three M1015's (and sometimes even just two) to run in unRAID without error, but the same configuration runs fine in bare metal unRAID. I am starting to wonder if the difference between my system and the ones that work is that mine is Ivy Bridge while theirs is Sandy Bridge. BobPoenix thinks it might instead be the Ivy Bridge support and implementation on various BIOS's. We'll have to wait and see. Quote Link to comment
marcusone Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 I just built an ESXi system based on what others had done except I bought the newer V2 Xeon 1230 which is Ivy Bridge. The other systems that worked had Sandy Bridge processors. Mine refused to allow all three M1015's (and sometimes even just two) to run in unRAID without error, but the same configuration runs fine in bare metal unRAID. I am starting to wonder if the difference between my system and the ones that work is that mine is Ivy Bridge while theirs is Sandy Bridge. BobPoenix thinks it might instead be the Ivy Bridge support and implementation on various BIOS's. We'll have to wait and see. What board and BIOS do you have? Sent from my SGH-I727R using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I have a Supermicro X9SCM-F-O with the 2.0a BIOS. Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I forgot to follow up on this. I finally replaces my Ivy Bridge Xeon with a Sandy Bridge and all my problems went away. Not sure if it's your problem too, but something to look into. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 I forgot to follow up on this. I finally replaces my Ivy Bridge Xeon with a Sandy Bridge and all my problems went away. Not sure if it's your problem too, but something to look into. Thats very interesting! I was considering a E3-1240v2 for anew build, but I'm thinking I would be better off with an older proc. Quote Link to comment
RockDawg Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Just to be clear. My problems with the Ivy Bridge processor were only involving ESXi. When I wasn't running ESXi, the processor gave me no problems. So you aren't going to run ESXi I wouldn't worry about it. Quote Link to comment
StevenD Posted October 1, 2012 Share Posted October 1, 2012 Just to be clear. My problems with the Ivy Bridge processor were only involving ESXi. When I wasn't running ESXi, the processor gave me no problems. So you aren't going to run ESXi I wouldn't worry about it. I havent decided yet. Quote Link to comment
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