October 8, 20169 yr Hi all, New to the forums and unRAID, so hi Just got a new Dell T330 server, bought to replace an existing HP Microserver for something with more drive slots and more processing power :-) The onboard RAID controller (perc H330) is (and always has been) in HBA mode so is just passing drives through as JBOD. BIOS has sata devices set to AHCI mode. Then I heard about unRAID and it seems to meet all my requirements. I've downloaded the trial (6.2.1) and popped it on a brand new Sandisk Ultra 32gb USB stick. Couldn't get the pasting of the trial license url to work - kept coming up with an error, but manually adding it to the config folder seems to have worked so far... Booted to it on the Dell T330 which currently has 1 x SSD in drive bay 0 and three HDD in bays 1,2 and 3. On the "main" tab, every single slot is unassigned with no disks showing at all? Tools/Registration shows "0 attached storage devices" Diagnostics zip attached although I don't think it'll help much Does anyone have [glow=red,2,300]any[/glow] ideas/suggestions that I can try? I really hope I'm not forgetting something obvious?! unraid-diagnostics-20161008-1317.zip
October 8, 20169 yr When you say "no disks showing", have you clicked the arrow to drop down the list for "Disk 1" and nothing is there, or do you mean that all the disk slots indicate no disk? When you're starting a brand new configuration, you have to actually assign a physical disk (from the drop down), to a logical disk slot (Disk 1, Disk 2, etc.) unRAID doesn't do that for you. It doesn't do it automatically, because most likely, you want the SSD as your cache drive, and you need to have your largest as the parity drive, but if you have multiple 3TB drives, it leaves it up to you to decide which of them will be cache, etc...
October 8, 20169 yr Author When you say "no disks showing", have you clicked the arrow to drop down the list for "Disk 1" and nothing is there, or do you mean that all the disk slots indicate no disk? When you're starting a brand new configuration, you have to actually assign a physical disk (from the drop down), to a logical disk slot (Disk 1, Disk 2, etc.) unRAID doesn't do that for you. It doesn't do it automatically, because most likely, you want the SSD as your cache drive, and you need to have your largest as the parity drive, but if you have multiple 3TB drives, it leaves it up to you to decide which of them will be cache, etc... Hey Freeman, thanks for replying and trying to help me! Yes unfortunately that's correct - when I click the drop down arrow hoping to see a list of my SSD+HDD's there's none there at all. It's like unRAID can't see through the perc H330 onboard controller, even though it's definitely in HBA mode...
October 8, 20169 yr Community Expert I'm afraid it will only work if that controller can be flashed to IT mode.
October 8, 20169 yr Hi all, New to the forums and unRAID, so hi Just got a new Dell T330 server, bought to replace an existing HP Microserver for something with more drive slots and more processing power :-) The onboard RAID controller (perc H330) is (and always has been) in HBA mode so is just passing drives through as JBOD. BIOS has sata devices set to AHCI mode. Then I heard about unRAID and it seems to meet all my requirements. I've downloaded the trial (6.2.1) and popped it on a brand new Sandisk Ultra 32gb USB stick. Couldn't get the pasting of the trial license url to work - kept coming up with an error, but manually adding it to the config folder seems to have worked so far... Booted to it on the Dell T330 which currently has 1 x SSD in drive bay 0 and three HDD in bays 1,2 and 3. On the "main" tab, every single slot is unassigned with no disks showing at all? Tools/Registration shows "0 attached storage devices" Diagnostics zip attached although I don't think it'll help much Does anyone have [glow=red,2,300]any[/glow] ideas/suggestions that I can try? I really hope I'm not forgetting something obvious?! Actually we're working with someone else to try and support that controller. Should have more info on this early next week. Send me an email: [email protected] and we'll try and keep you up to date on this.
October 8, 20169 yr We have a Power edge at work...*the factory Dell PERC 330 card refused to work in this with Unraid Tossed in a spare PERC 310 And no problems. :-X
October 9, 20169 yr We have a Power edge at work...*the factory Dell PERC 330 card refused to work in this with Unraid Tossed in a spare PERC 310 And no problems. :-X It appears the Dell branded controllers use custom firmware (for Dell) and it's not possible to "flash" them into "IT mode". The closest you get to JBOD is to configure it so that each device is in single-device raid0. But we are still looking into this.
October 9, 20169 yr Community Expert Actually we're working with someone else to try and support that controller. Should have more info on this early next week. Send me an email: [email protected] and we'll try and keep you up to date on this. Cool, is it only going to support the H330 or other (all?) Dell Perc controllers?
October 9, 20169 yr Author Hi all, New to the forums and unRAID, so hi Just got a new Dell T330 server, bought to replace an existing HP Microserver for something with more drive slots and more processing power :-) The onboard RAID controller (perc H330) is (and always has been) in HBA mode so is just passing drives through as JBOD. BIOS has sata devices set to AHCI mode. Then I heard about unRAID and it seems to meet all my requirements. I've downloaded the trial (6.2.1) and popped it on a brand new Sandisk Ultra 32gb USB stick. Couldn't get the pasting of the trial license url to work - kept coming up with an error, but manually adding it to the config folder seems to have worked so far... Booted to it on the Dell T330 which currently has 1 x SSD in drive bay 0 and three HDD in bays 1,2 and 3. On the "main" tab, every single slot is unassigned with no disks showing at all? Tools/Registration shows "0 attached storage devices" Diagnostics zip attached although I don't think it'll help much Does anyone have [glow=red,2,300]any[/glow] ideas/suggestions that I can try? I really hope I'm not forgetting something obvious?! Actually we're working with someone else to try and support that controller. Should have more info on this early next week. Send me an email: [email protected] and we'll try and keep you up to date on this. Just emailed you requesting more info and volunteering myself and my server for testing I'm extremely keen to get the H330 working - seems like an odd decision to not allow flashing to IT mode. Come on Lime-Tech, don't let me down :)
October 9, 20169 yr We have a Power edge at work...*the factory Dell PERC 330 card refused to work in this with Unraid Tossed in a spare PERC 310 And no problems. :-X It appears the Dell branded controllers use custom firmware (for Dell) and it's not possible to "flash" them into "IT mode". The closest you get to JBOD is to configure it so that each device is in single-device raid0. But we are still looking into this. And here I thought I was going mad! After flashing other cards I thought I had messed something up in this process when after a couple days I still hadn't figured out the issue!
October 9, 20169 yr @limetech official Docker request. A DOS environment where you pass through a SATA/SAS card and the model info via drop down choices. Like VM VIRTIO you can download official IT driver or provide your own. Press play, and use web Gui VNC to flash the card for use in Unraid.
October 9, 20169 yr Community Expert @limetech official Docker request. A DOS environment where you pass through a SATA/SAS card and the model info via drop down choices. Like VM VIRTIO you can download official IT driver or provide your own. Press play, and use web Gui VNC to flash the card for use in Unraid. i do not think this is technically possible? As far as I know docker is only capable of hosting Linux apps.
October 11, 20169 yr Author Any update on this yet guys? Could you confirm you got my email at least as I've not had a reply yet?
October 12, 20169 yr @limetech official Docker request. A DOS environment where you pass through a SATA/SAS card and the model info via drop down choices. Like VM VIRTIO you can download official IT driver or provide your own. Press play, and use web Gui VNC to flash the card for use in Unraid. i do not think this is technically possible? As far as I know docker is only capable of hosting Linux apps. To bad....
October 13, 20169 yr Author Yes, we did get your e-mail. No, we don't have any updates yet. Well you say that, but I'm currently under instruction from Tom with a megaraid driver which is at least making my PERC H330 show up in the main tab :D
October 16, 20169 yr Author As an update on this, I'm currently running 6 drives in my T330 on the standard backplane and using the PERC H330. SMART data seems to be working. All devices are passed through correctly and, touch-wood, everything seems to be working perfectly!
October 18, 20169 yr As an update on this, I'm currently running 6 drives in my T330 on the standard backplane and using the PERC H330. SMART data seems to be working. All devices are passed through correctly and, touch-wood, everything seems to be working perfectly! So i have to buy a mini mono card this week. The perc 310 and perc 330 are within 20 bucks of each other. Did you have to do anything special to the H330 other than set it to hba mode in the dell bios?
October 18, 20169 yr As an update on this, I'm currently running 6 drives in my T330 on the standard backplane and using the PERC H330. SMART data seems to be working. All devices are passed through correctly and, touch-wood, everything seems to be working perfectly! So i have to buy a mini mono card this week. The perc 310 and perc 330 are within 20 bucks of each other. Did you have to do anything special to the H330 other than set it to hba mode in the dell bios? You would have to wait for an unRAID release that includes the new support.
October 18, 20169 yr Author As an update on this, I'm currently running 6 drives in my T330 on the standard backplane and using the PERC H330. SMART data seems to be working. All devices are passed through correctly and, touch-wood, everything seems to be working perfectly! So i have to buy a mini mono card this week. The perc 310 and perc 330 are within 20 bucks of each other. Did you have to do anything special to the H330 other than set it to hba mode in the dell bios? You would have to wait for an unRAID release that includes the new support. RobJ, Does this mean that the Unraid team are planning to release a version soon to officially support the H330? My trial version of 6.3.0-rc1 using the megaraid sas driver provided by Tom M is working perfectly as it should here, albeit that I have to manually load it in each time I reboot the server for anything. I don't suppose there's a way for me to sort of add it to the startup code of my server is there? Thanks for an absolutely brilliant program!
October 18, 20169 yr You would have to wait for an unRAID release that includes the new support. RobJ, Does this mean that the Unraid team are planning to release a version soon to officially support the H330? My trial version of 6.3.0-rc1 using the megaraid sas driver provided by Tom M is working perfectly as it should here, albeit that I have to manually load it in each time I reboot the server for anything. I don't suppose there's a way for me to sort of add it to the startup code of my server is there? Thanks for an absolutely brilliant program! As a fellow user, I can't speak for Lime Technology. All I can say is that is what they usually do, include it in an upcoming release. It would then be loaded automatically for cards and chipsets it supports.
October 18, 20169 yr Author You would have to wait for an unRAID release that includes the new support. RobJ, Does this mean that the Unraid team are planning to release a version soon to officially support the H330? My trial version of 6.3.0-rc1 using the megaraid sas driver provided by Tom M is working perfectly as it should here, albeit that I have to manually load it in each time I reboot the server for anything. I don't suppose there's a way for me to sort of add it to the startup code of my server is there? Thanks for an absolutely brilliant program! As a fellow user, I can't speak for Lime Technology. All I can say is that is what they usually do, include it in an upcoming release. It would then be loaded automatically for cards and chipsets it supports. Awesome! Let's hope so then. Fingers crossed!!
November 30, 20232 yr Author 22 minutes ago, nekromantik said: old topic but was the h330 controller made to work on unraid? I think so. I’ve been using Unraid every day since that post and it works perfectly 😊
November 30, 20232 yr 33 minutes ago, joenitro said: I think so. I’ve been using Unraid every day since that post and it works perfectly 😊 thanks did you need to change any settings in BIOS to make unraid work? im thinking of getting a refurb unit off ebay as can get one for £150
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