magistratee Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I am new to unRAID and was wondering if you can answer some questions. I am looking around for a board to start my unRAID server and checking about compatibility int the posts I have been reading. I found that some of the motherboards gigabit LAN were incompatible in some cases. There are Realtek, Marvell, etc... Has anyone heard of the gigabit LAN chipset ATHLOS? I found this on the ECS boards. I haven't found any posts on this and was wondering if anyone has used boards with this and how does it fair. Should I just stick with a board with the realtek, marvell, ... LAN or use a board with ATHLOS on it. Really appreciate the help. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 The Hardware Compatibility wiki page (highly recommended reading) indicates that the Atheros L1 chipset is compatible, but that the Atheros AR8112 chipset is not. Check the listed ECS boards, and the Network Controllers section. I'm assuming ATHLOS should be Atheros? I have never heard of ATHLOS. Quote Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted February 26, 2009 Share Posted February 26, 2009 I have an ECS A740GM-M and the network port works fine. Not sure what you're looking for but the Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 motherboard with the same 740G chipset is working for many people here and is a cheap board for a 6 drive system and you can easily do 12 ports with all SATA on PCIe. Peter Quote Link to comment
magistratee Posted February 26, 2009 Author Share Posted February 26, 2009 lionelhutz - I am going to play with the intial unRAID version then when I get a hang of it upgrade. I am currently just looking for a board w/ gigabit and at least 6 SATA ports. Thanks for the recommendation but I am looking for an intel board cause i have a celeron 430. RobJ - Thanks for the reply. Maybe it was just a typo then cause on this board ECS P43T-A2 the ECS site said that it had Athlos L1. Quote Link to comment
RobJ Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Looks like ECS has corrected it here. The board chipsets look like they are compatible, except I don't recall anyone using the JMB368 IDE channel. However, we can't recommend a board until someone has confirmed full compatibility with unRAID, even better confirmed a month of usage with completed parity checks. So although the board looks OK, there is no guarantee here, because sometimes there are hidden 'gotchas', BIOS problems or USB boot issues or strange drive incompatibilities etc... Quote Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted February 27, 2009 Share Posted February 27, 2009 Well then maybe you should get a SuperMicrso C2SEE, which is the board Tom (the unRAID creator) sells in the servers he builds. Peter Quote Link to comment
magistratee Posted February 27, 2009 Author Share Posted February 27, 2009 Thanks for the help and the recommendations. I am trying to find good deals around. I just found a good deal for an MSI P45 Neo3-FR for $50 at fry's so I am gonna try at that for now (said it was being discontinued). I am gonna make another post with other questions hopefully you can help me there too =p. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
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