jknight Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Does anyone know of a working AMD motherboard? I found one that might work. The Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G. It has a Marvel Gigabit port (it is a Marvell 88E1116, is that the Yukon?), and says it will boot from a USB Zip (I am assuming that is USB key). It has built in video, but it does not say what kind of SATA controller it has, but that is not a big deal, as I can just add the PCI SATA card. It is going for $67 at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813128009 Any thoughts? Thanks. - Jeff Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 Looking at the manual, SATA support is via nForce 430 chipset. Looking on the NVIDIA linux page, it would appear that the 'sata_nv' driver already built into unRAID Server should work. In addition I downloaded the code from the above NVIDIA link and the base source file in the current unRAID Server release is actually quite a bit newer than file in the download. If you decide to give it a go, please post back with results, since we have been concentrating on Intel-based m/b's and done very little testing with AMD-base m/b's. Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 3, 2006 Author Share Posted November 3, 2006 Thanks. So is that the right gigabit network port that works with unRaid? Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 Well, I got the board, and it boots on the USB drive, but it does not look like the SATA driver works, nor does the network card. If you want to help get it working so that there is an AMD alternative, I would be happy to do so. Otherwise I will need to return this board and try something else. - Jeff Quote Link to comment
limetech Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Yes, looking into it now. Marvell posted a new driver yesterday - I need to see if it has that chip support. Will not be able to get to it until later this afternoon... Please send me an email so I can send you a driver if need be. [email protected] Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 4, 2006 Author Share Posted November 4, 2006 I sent an email. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
crankbearing Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 Hey Jknight, Any news on this testing!!! Very interested in the outcome.. Thanks, Dave in Canada Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Yes. I just tried a new USB drive, and that has fixed lots of issues. What is funny is that it booted off my original one and took me to the command prompt and I could log in. But it would not map the usb drive, so things were not loading properly. Now it looks like the network and drives are loaded, though it is not taking the IP address I give it (I am not using DHCP). But it is looking very promising and I will report back when I get more news. Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Well, I had success. Tom at UnRaid added a new driver that got the network port working, and it is currently formating the system. So it looks like unRaid will work on AMD. The board I got looks good, but I am not sure it has Wake on Lan as I did not see it in the bios, but I will have to test that. But the nForce SATA drivers work, as well as the Marvell 88E1116 network card. There were quite a few board with that network card and the nForce SATA when I browsed for a motherboard at Newegg, so other AMD boards should work as well. Thanks for your help Tom. Quote Link to comment
crankbearing Posted November 7, 2006 Share Posted November 7, 2006 Hey jknight, Can you list your components please. Cpu, Ram etc...and bios setting when you get some time. Regards, Dave in Canada Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 7, 2006 Author Share Posted November 7, 2006 Here is what I have: Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G AMD 3500+ AM2 chip (though any will work) 512MB Ram. Not sure the memory brand. I just pulled them from a Dell PC. SanDisk Cruzer Micro U3 USB memory stick. I removed the U3 software. It is on sale for 9.99 after rebate at Circuit City right now. The only bios setting I had to make was the First Boot device, I selected USB-Zip and then it all worked. I also needed the 3.1 Beta drivers which Tom added the needed network drivers. Now I want to see if Cool 'n Quiet will work, and if the drivers are not already in there, if I can just load them as descibed in External Packages in the Documentation section. I also need to test it going to sleep (hopefully is S3 mode) and waking up on Lan request. But I don't know if it will do that. Quote Link to comment
TCIII Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 jknight, AMD's Cool and Quiet may only operate under Windows. I have it installed on my AMD Athlon 64 3700 powered HTPC running Windows XP Pro and it installed as an application would. Just a thought. Regards, TCIII Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 8, 2006 Author Share Posted November 8, 2006 There are drivers for Cool and Quiet at AMD's site: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/TechnicalResources/0,,30_182_871_9706,00.html but it says it is for 2.6, so it may not work right now in the current 2.4 kernel that unRaid uses. Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 9, 2006 Author Share Posted November 9, 2006 I tried it on an ECS nForce4 A939 board I have, and it seems to work on that as well. Not my favorite name brand, but it can be had a Frys for like $40. No built in video though. Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Hi, I am very interested in using this software to build a storage server utilizing the extra AMD chip I have lying around. Could anybody kindly provide some input on whether the following two boards would work with unRaid? ASUS A8N-VM http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131570 Asus A8n-SLI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517 I gather the A8n-VM might work given jknight's postings above...I searched on that criteria. Any help would be appreciated. -James Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 29, 2006 Author Share Posted November 29, 2006 It looks like the ASUS A8N-VM will work as it has the right lan chip and uses nVidia chipset. Most new board look like they will boot from a USB memory stick. Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 29, 2006 Share Posted November 29, 2006 Thanks JK...that's what I think as well going off the search criteria you had listed previously in this thread. Unfortunately...I found this post... http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=100.msg595#msg595 Not sure if this was a specific error on the users part or more generally the board is unusable... -james Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 fwiw...this board works... -needed to change USB speed to Fast mode from High-Speed mode in bios. My problem now seems to be the speed at which the parity drive is getting synched...~1,700kbs...telling me >30 hours for a 200gb drive. I've played around with the jumper settings on the drive. (it is connected as Pri Master, while a 40gb drive is connected as Pri Slave) but so far no joy. If anybody has any suggestions please feel free to post them In the meantime I'll putz around with this for the rest of the day... -james Quote Link to comment
TCIII Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 sainttjames, Your unRaid drives should be set up as "cable select" not as "master" or "slave". Just a thought. Regards, TCIII Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 Thanks TCIII...i *thought* i had tried that initially...but (knowing how my brain works) I'll set them up that way now. addendum: I changed the jumpers to CS, and aside from unRaid complaining that the largest drive must be in the '1st position' (which i changed)...I am back to square one...~1,700kbs I notice when unRAID is booting up I see it attempting to start SAMBA a message pops up as follows: /proc/scsi/scsi extensions not found would this have any bearing on my predicament? reaching for straws, James Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 well a full day of trying multiple configurations...and nothing worked. of note: removing one drive allowed the parity check to approach the 4,500-5,000kbs range tried 4 different cables...3 were the same...one didn't work (binned it) tried multiple jumper settings on the hard drives...nothing... fwiw...this is UnRaid 3.1b2 will give this a go over the next couple of days...then who knows ...would really like for it to work. -james Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 a couple of screenshots...the drives are in UDMA5 mode...so that rules out this being a PIO issue I suppose... /dev/hda: Model=ST3200822A, FwRev=3.01, SerialNo=3LJ08R1C Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs RotSpdTol>.5% } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=4 BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=8192kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=268435455 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:240,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: ATA/ATAPI-6 T13 1410D revision 2: * signifies the current active mode root@Tower:~# hdparm -i /dev/hdb /dev/hdb: Model=WDC WD400BB-00AUA1, FwRev=18.20D18, SerialNo=WD-WMA6R4443213 Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq } RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=57600, SectSize=600, ECCbytes=40 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=78165360 IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120} PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4 DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 *udma5 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled Drive conforms to: device does not report version: * signifies the current active mode Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 more info for someone who might know something hda name value min max mod ---- ----- --- --- --- acoustic 0 0 254 rw address 1 0 2 rw bios_cyl 24321 0 65535 rw bios_head 255 0 255 rw bios_sect 63 0 63 rw breada_readahead 8 0 255 rw bswap 0 0 1 r current_speed 0 0 70 rw failures 0 0 65535 rw file_readahead 124 0 16384 rw init_speed 0 0 70 rw io_32bit 0 0 3 rw keepsettings 0 0 1 rw lun 0 0 7 rw max_failures 1 0 65535 rw max_kb_per_request 128 1 255 rw multcount 16 0 16 rw nice1 1 0 1 rw nowerr 0 0 1 rw number 0 0 3 rw pio_mode write-only 0 255 w slow 0 0 1 rw unmaskirq 0 0 1 rw using_dma 0 0 1 rw wcache 0 0 1 rw Quote Link to comment
jknight Posted November 30, 2006 Author Share Posted November 30, 2006 Do you have any SATA drives to try? Maybe the IDE drivers in unRaid are not very good for that board. Quote Link to comment
sainttjames Posted November 30, 2006 Share Posted November 30, 2006 JK, I have some in another pc...but they got data on them I'll go out and buy a SATA drive tomorrow...ultimately it will get used...I just wish it would get used in this...as it is starting to look like it's not going to happen... Hey! Thanks for stopping by - btw... -james Quote Link to comment
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