October 26, 201213 yr I redid my server tonight, with my new 8506-8 cards, the cards are seen in boot, and the drives are seen in the raid bios... and from what I have read, if left alone, they will just default to JBOD. I upgraded to 5RC8, and still, no matter what I do, unRaid will not detect the drives on the cards... is there something I am doing wrong? I have attached the syslog, and I can't see where it even sees the drives or the raid cards?? help? TheStapler syslog.txt
October 26, 201213 yr Author just to add a little more detail... MOBO: supermicro H8QC8 http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nforce/H8QC8.cfm CPU: Opteron 865 (Dual core 1. (x4) Ram: 16gb DDR400 (1GB x16, and i think they are ECC) RAID: 3Ware 8506-8 PCI-X (x3) http://www.3ware.com/support/UserDocs/EscaladeUG7000-122003.pdf as I said, the mobo sees the cards, the cards see the drives (I have card 1 full, card 2 has 5 drives, and card 3 has port 6-7 with the cache and parity), but unraid doesn't see the cards or the drives... i can't even see anything in the syslog i had posted...
October 26, 201213 yr I don't have that board or HDD controller but I've never had a problems with my Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8 cards in unRAID. At the time I was only using 2 cards with unRAID however. I am currently using 3 SAT2-MV8 cards in a Windows 7 box without problems. You might see if it works with just 2 of your 8506-8 cards to trouble shoot.
October 26, 201213 yr Author Thanks, I will try that too... but in the manual, it supports up to 4 cards in 1 system... according to the product brochure: http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/8000DS_041904.pdf Could be the issue, willing to try anything... will post later this evening, hopefully maybe someone else has some ideas too? do you think I need to compile the drivers into the kernal?
October 26, 201213 yr Thanks, I will try that too... but in the manual, it supports up to 4 cards in 1 system... according to the product brochure: http://www.3ware.com/products/pdf/8000DS_041904.pdf Could be the issue, willing to try anything... will post later this evening, hopefully maybe someone else has some ideas too? do you think I need to compile the drivers into the kernal? Can't really say as I've never done anything like that myself. One of the reasons I went to ESXi was so that I could just install unRAID as an appliance and still use other VMs for other things I wanted to do on the same box. I'm more comfortable with Windows based PCs. Actually now that I think of it when I had ESXi installed on my X7SBE MB I passed through 3 SAT2-MV8s to control > 16 drives in unRAID so I did have it working with 3. unRAID just might not work with an 8506 controller but I have no real way to know for sure. If that is true then yes you would have to compile a custom kernal for unRAID to run on.
October 26, 201213 yr Author my hopes was to run esxi and then passthru the drives to the vm image that would be unraid... I tried this with my 9550sx cards, but that didn't work... and it was late last night, so i didn't get a chance to install esxi.... figured this should have just booted up, and I cold mess with esxi later... i have lots to do tonight... would like to just have this work stand alone, before messing with esxi though
October 26, 201213 yr I would agree. Get it working in unRAID standalone before going to pass through in ESXi.
October 27, 201213 yr Author ok... so, removed 1 card, tried with 2 only... same issue. boots up fine, but unraid will not detect the raid cards.
October 27, 201213 yr Sounds like your cards are not compatible with unRAID to me. You will probably have to compile your own kernel to get driver support. Unless someone else has an idea that will help.
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