August 22, 20169 yr Hello, Last week I had an issue with my UnRaid server. It seemed after investigation that my SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 REV 1,01 (must have) caught on fire. The card is half black. Also plastic from the PCI-E slot that melted on to the board, right beside the slot. Funny thing is the motherboard still POSTs but I won't be using it for UnRAID anymore In this case half my array disks run off this card. I ordered a new motherboard + the same SAS card for replacement. What I am curious about is how this may have happened. There was no power outage or anything to that extent. Could it have been just a short circuit? Under powered PSU ? or just old age and I got lucky there was not more damage. I wanted to be sure also with the replacement SAS card, the UnRAID environment will resume as normal .... i.e. the new SAS card won't push new IDs to the disks or something causing my data or array to fail. Sorry there is a first time for everything and I wanted to be sure and check with the community that I am going down the correct path. My SAS card should be arriving tomorrow or the next day. Thanks everyone.
August 22, 20169 yr Wow, I'm glad it was just a few computer parts that got toasty! unRAID identifies disks by serial number so once you plug them into the new setup with the old USB stick you should boot right up. The sda, sdb, etc. device IDs could change, but that's immaterial since unRAID is using the serial number.
August 23, 20169 yr Author Thanks man --- just got the part today, no harm in double checking -- I'll follow up with how it goes
August 23, 20169 yr Zou could even replace the AOC-SASLP-MV8 REV 1,01 with a flashed M1015 or Dell PERC H310. Disks would still be recognized.
August 23, 20169 yr Author I wasn't sure of another alternative when all this happened, so I replaced it with the same Supermicro card. I have the card installed on my new motherboard and a parity check/sync is running
August 24, 20169 yr I wasn't sure of another alternative when all this happened, so I replaced it with the same Supermicro card. I have the card installed on my new motherboard and a parity check/sync is running I can understand, in such a situation I would freak out and just grab what used to work before and get everything working again asap. I still don't understand what happened though.
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