Hi all,

 

I recently managed to get an LSI 8078ELP card and am having issues getting any kind of disk to appear in unRAID 5.0rc15a no matter what configuration I set up.

 

I have both drives attached to the controller set up as individual virtual disks in RAID 0. This controller does not support IT mode firmware so the disk has to be run in IR mode in this way as far as I can tell?

 

The post here:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9950.msg116635#msg116635

 

suggests the driver required to run this card is not included in unRAID (any more or has never been I'm not sure). Is there anything I can do to get this card to play nicely with unRAID or am I barking up the wrong tree here trying to mess around with a card with this chipset?

 

I have attached a syslog which I think just shows that the drives are not being detected by unRAID at all.

 

Thanks for any help!

Phil

2013.07.27_-_unRAID_syslog.txt

The disks have to set up as just a bunch of disks or in other terms no raid set up at all.

 

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I have used megacli to run the following command as stated in the thread above:

MegaCli -CfgEachDskRaid0 -aAll

 

This sets the drives in the following configuration:

 

Virtual Disk 1 - Physical Disk 1 in Raid 0

Virtual Disk 2 - Physical Disk 2 in Raid 0

 

Unfortunately this card cannot just pass through the disks to be directly controlled by unRaid like the LSI1068 or 2008 based cards. They have to be controlled by the card so this is as close as it can get to JBOD as far as I can tell.

 

The virtual disks show up in Windows if I connect the card and disks to my other PC. They just don't seem to be detected in unRAID.

 

Any further ideas?

 

Cheers,

Phil

 

 

Have given up on this and purchased a BR10i instead which I can flash to IT firmware.

 

If anyone ever works this out then let me know!

 

Might be a bargain 8078ELP on eBay soon 

 

Cheers,

Phil