MSI 915GM Speedster-FA4 & Intel Pentium M 745 1.8 GHz

[towlyone]

Hello unRaid Server Community,

 

after i got some informations about different raid strategys, it seems that unRAID would be the solution i'd prefer. So my question is: would it be possible using my old MCPC hardware to build it? It consists of the following components:

 

MSI 915GM Speedster-FA4 (Intel 915GM + ICH6 chipset)

Intel Pentium M 745 1,8 GHz, 2MB L2 cache

1GB Ram

 

I'd like to use up to 12 harddisks and it should work fast enough for GbE.

I hope someone here can give me a short answer if its worth a try, or totally impossible because of ...

 

Yes, I used the search function, checked out the hardware list, but I just didn't found the answers I searched for

 

 

looking forward to your answers

[WeeboTech]

I've used the MSI 945GT Speedster-A4R with success. I think I had to use NOAPIC or IRQPOLL to get the ethernet to work.

Other then that it performed fine.

[towlyone]

Thanks for your quick answer WeeboTech,

 

i'll give it a try with the test-version of unraid, if it works buy the pro-version. So if I understand your post the right way, it should work with my older mobile chipset because the newer one is supported?

[WeeboTech]

So if I understand your post the right way, it should work with my older mobile chipset because the newer one is supported?

That's an assumption. If I had the parts or they were really cheap,  I would try it.

if I had to buy the parts I might look for something newer.

 

I figure the ICH6 should be supported.

The ethernet may have issues, as I mention I had to use IRQPOLL and/or NOAPIC on the kernel line within the syslinux.cfg.

[towlyone]

I'll give it a try, hope it works!

 

give you some feedback (or new questions ) next week, thanks...

[towlyone]

So finally, after I could solve my problems booting my unraid server throug the great support here, it seems to run just fine. I had to change the syslinux.cfg, noapic, like you suggested. This is a well thought out piece of software, i'll see how it performs on my outdatet media center.