Hi all,

 

Does UnRAID support the Adaptec 2410SA RAID Card? I have tested UnRAID by installing it on a USB pen drive but I do not see any drives that is connected to the Adaptec 2410 card. Formatting the drives (2 x 1Tb WD green) inside the Adaptec Card BIOS as single standalone drives (2 x 931GB volumes) or as a RAID0 volume (1 x 1.8TB volume) does not make any difference. It just shows as Not assigned under UnRAID menu.

 

Please advise how do I use UnRAID with this card... My system is a P4 1.8Ghz, Genuine Intel D850GB motherboard, 512Mb ram, 2 x 1TB WD green Drive, ASUS Voodoo 3 card, Trendnet Gigabit NIC.

 

Hope someone can help solve this mystery for me.

 

Thanks.

See if you can set the drives up as JBOD or system drives.

if unRAID cannot see them in that manner then it will not work without recompiling the kernel with the card's bios.

There is a chance that even after that, linux will see the drives, but emhttp may not understand the naming conventions subsequently being unable to use drives on this card.

 

unRAID is known to be compatible with the Adaptec 1430sa card.

Also, you will need to go to the "Devices" page to assign the drives to their slots in the array.  Until you do that, they will show as "Un-assigned"

 

If no devices appear in the "drop-down" lists on the "Devices" page, then you may have the BIOS option set wrong on your SATA ccontroller.  As already said, the disks must be configured as independent disks, not part of a raid array od any kind.

 

Joe L..

Hi,

 

Thanks for the pointers.

 

Yes, I have actually configured the drives as single volumes inside the Adaptec BIOS (at bootup, please F2 and then CTRL-A, to access Adaptec BIOS). I tried doing both:

 

1. Formatted the Drive as Single volumes, i.e each 1TB drive is an individual array, and rebooted. UnRAID didn't see any of the drives under the devices list. Clicking on the 'Unassigned' menu didn't pull down to any other options.

 

2. Formatted the Drives as a RAID0 (2 x 1TB drive into one 1.8TB volume) inside the Adaptec BIOS as a single array, an then rebooted machine. UnRAID didn't see this array as well under the devices list. Clicking on the 'Unassigned' menu didn't pull down to any other options.

 

Does this mean the Adaptec 2410SA is unsupported? This is the card's link: http://www.adaptec.com/en-US/support/raid/sata/AAR-2410SA/

 

Is there any tweaks I can make in the .cfg file?

 

Thanks for the help and advise.

 

 

I would email Tom (support at Lime Tech) with a request for adding support for this Adaptec 2410SA card, and include a link to this thread.

 

He added support for the 1430SA some time ago.  One comment, with the 1430SA, users have said that the first task is to disable the BIOS on the card.  It appears to use a Marvell driver, sata_mv I think.  Don't know what the 2410SA needs, all I could find mentioned was aacraid, which sounds like a RAID-only driver.

Does the documentation for the controller specifically say that the drives can be configured as JBOD ??

 

Yes, I have actually configured the drives as single volumes inside the Adaptec BIOS (at bootup, please F2 and then CTRL-A, to access Adaptec BIOS). I tried doing both:

 

JBOD is not the same as a single volume.  The volume implies access through the bios and a raid driver.

JBOD implies that it is presented as a single raw disk to the operating system.

 

I think you may need to specifically ask for the driver to be added as part of the kernel for support in unRAID.