Hi there,

 

After seeing that the sky2 driver has tons of issues with UnRAID (while it works perfectly fine in other distros), I gave up and bought a two port Intel NIC in the hopes of teaming it with my enterprise level switch -- this, I have to chase down later.

 

Anyhow, after inserting this particular PCIe X4 card in my old and cruft Acer H340, the card is not recognized by the OS. On the HW compat listing, it shows as Intel Pro/1000 as being supported, but perhaps the dual port version isn't?

 

Can anyone tell me how to get this working, even if it means compiling a module for it? Being that I'm not familar with how to set up a dev environment for compiling a module, any help I'd get from the awesome community here would be amazing.

 

Thanks,

 

daze

I've a dual port PRO/1000 with unRAID, didn't have any issues. However, it was for a pass through device, not as the NIC for unRAID.

Have you tried disabling the onboard NIC?  unRaid's UI is only accessible via eth0

Problem is that the onboard BIOS is severely gimped. Doesn't allow for disabling of the onboard NIC, and `lspci` doesn't show the card at all. I'll have to try it in a different system to see if its a card issue.

 

Can I see someone's lspci output to see what it should look like, please?

 

Thanks.

Figured it out. Acer H340's PCIE X4 slot works only with X1 cards.

 

It's time to ditch this old beast, and build a new server with removable drives. I'll surf the forums for some recommendations.

If you like the shape and size of the Acer, the HP Proliant Microserver Gen8 is astonishingly good value for money and works well with unRAID. Or maybe you want something with more room for expansion.

John_M,

 

Funny you mention the HP server. It looks nice, but like you said, I want something that is decent performance and can support at least 8 drives or more.

 

Here's where I need yours and the community's advice. I have an old Nehalem based Core i7 with 6GB RAM in a nice and tall Antec case with Corsair H80i water cooling. Works great, I normally use it once or twice a year for Steam basically. In California, PG&E prices are not cheap. So I was wondering if it is financially worth it build a new system with a 8 core Atom based board from SuperMicro and find a decent LSI card with SATA ports for expansion. I could buy a large case with two drive enclosures.

 

I want to run storage on it, mostly, plus maybe virtualization. Though I have a NUC i5 with 16GB RAM running ESXi 6.0.

 

Thanks,

 

daze