October 22, 200817 yr Hi - Trying to eval unraid I am running a Tyan server board with 4 built in SATA drives. it has what they call a Taro Card - which is an additional four ports via JBOD on an adaptec 1940 controller. I also have an Acera 1130 PCI-X 12 port Raid card set up as JBOD as well. for a total possible 20 drives. Right now there is one drive plugged into the system board. 4 in the Adaptec, and 12 in the ACera ... Booting unraid I only see 1 drive. is unraid unable to use JBOD??? system board: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813151090 PCI-X Raid: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131005 Taro card: http://www.provantage.com/tyan-m9000-10-rs~7TYA9020.htm First post here and I may (hopefully) be missing something simple. I am using the 'free' version which I understand is limited to three drives. but if it can't see any JBOD drives...
October 22, 200817 yr The Areca driver is not compiled into the unRAID kernel. Also we do not know at this time if the drives would be seen if it were. It just so happens i scored an 8 port areca card so I may know over the weekend. >>> Taro SODIMM Aic-9410W 8 Port SAS with Hostraid (0 1 10) Support The taro card is a SAS card. here again, the drivers are probably not available in the stock unRAID. Do you have SATA drives attached to it? Can they be seen with a standard slackware install? If so then how are they presented as devices to the system? If they are presented as standard SATA drives, then adding the driver to the kernel may allow them to be used. In my other machine. I have an adaptec SAS adapte's. When I connected SATA drives they were seen by the controller, but not by the OS. From what I remember there was a driver issue whereby the driver loaded the firmware, but the firmware loaded did not support SATA over SAS. That was with kernel 2.6.18-53.el5 and may not be the case any longer. EDIT... That's a nice mobo looks like it takes boatloads of ram. I know this is not what you want to hear/read,. but these cards have been known to work SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 unRAID is pruned to use the simplest hardware. This does not mean you cannot get your hardware to work, it only means it will take more effort to compile the drivers in, or work with lime-technolgioy to have them compile the drivers for you.
October 22, 200817 yr Author Do you have SATA drives attached to it? Yep Can they be seen with a standard slackware install? If so then how are they presented as devices to the system? If they are presented as standard SATA drives, then adding the driver to the kernel may allow them to be used. dunno ... I know the adaptec drives show up for ubuntu. I'll have to see if I can get slackware going I know this is not what you want to hear/read,. but these cards have been known to work SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16815121009 Actually that is nice to know! Are there any PCi-E eight or more port controllers that work "out of the box"? I appreciate the fast reply!! This does not mean you cannot get your hardware to work, it only means it will take more effort to compile the drivers in, or work with lime-technolgioy to have them compile the drivers for you.
October 22, 200817 yr dunno ... I know the adaptec drives show up for ubuntu. I'll have to see if I can get slackware going Then chances are they may be accessible if the driver is compiled in. Actually that is nice to know! Are there any PCi-E eight or more port controllers that work "out of the box"? I have not seen any.. Especially at the price point the Supermicro cards are at. For $200 you would have 16 ports. That's a pretty good deal. I've seen 4 port PCIe cards at reasonable prices. Still, info on the Areca is pending.
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