February 8, 200917 yr I am considering unRAID and the machine I would install it on does not have a SATA controller. It only has IDE. I want to add a SATA controller. The one I am considering has a chipset that is listed as supported by unRAID but I see this note in the compatiblity list: Note: Some of the above need a firmware update, to the latest non-RAID version (they usually come with RAID firmware) Does this mean unRAID doesn't support SATA RAID chipsets and I need to flash it to a non-RAID firmware, or does it mean just to update the controller to the latest firmware available?
February 8, 200917 yr unRAID doesn't support any RAID driver. So if any of your SATA controllers is in RAID mode, bad luck.
February 9, 200917 yr WeeboTech has said elsewhere that he had Silicon Image chipsets with the RAID BIOS, and it worked fine with unRAID, so it must have allowed direct drive access, and not defaulted to RAID mode. I too had previously thought that these cards had to be re-flashed with the non-RAID BIOS. Unless you don't want to bother with flashing it (and if it works fine as is), I would recommend getting the latest firmware from the Silicon Image web site, non-RAID version.
February 9, 200917 yr Author Well the machine I have is a Dell PowerEdge I got for free so I will start by seeing how well unRAID runs on it before I go buying parts.
February 10, 200917 yr Just disable the RAID ability or delete any RAID volumes and you will be fine. As long as you don't configure a RAID volume on your controller card and just leave it as a bunch of disks (JBOD) then Unraid won't care and your server will just say "Hey here's 6 disks have fun!"
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