Is there a guide to adding a AOC-SASLP-MV8 to an UnRaid box? See my sig for my setup, I've never done it before and I remember reading somewhere that something, cant remember what,  needs to be cancelled/disabled in the card BIOS?

 

Thanks

There isn't really one, because it is not needed, with almost all modern computers it will just work.

 

Some older computers had an issue where the computers motherboard BIOS didn't have enough room reserved for the current BIOS of the SASLP and then you would need a different BIOS on the motherboard, or an older smaller one on the card.

 

The only thing as you mention, it would be useful to disable the INT13 function in the BIOS of the SASLP, this is because INT13 is used to get a list of all the drives, and since that order can change depending on how fast drives spin up, it will mess up the boot order, and it means your computer would not start unraid after setting it up, without rebooting and changing/setting a new bootorder.

 

Disabling INT13 in the card means that the drives would not be added as bootable and so after setting the BIOS of the computer to start the USB-device that unraid was installed on, it would keep working if the SASLP changed the order of drives attached to it.

 

Here is the basics for the card:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12404.msg117904#msg117904

Read the last post in my thread:-

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=26022.0

 

You literally just add it in, plug the drives in and boot up. However, one thing I will note is the boot takes ~ 30 seconds longer with the card in, and, I assume it'll be like that per card (It's BIOS menu timeout is huge, then it has to spin all the drives up and "Detect" them).

Dude, I just installed one of these like 40 min. ago.  If I can do it anyone can do.  I installed it, hooked up a drive, closed everything, turn it on and it worked.  I am preclearing the drive as I type this.