Are there any requirements for being able to achieve 14 disks (e.g., a mix of SATA and PATA).  I have an older mobo that currently has 12 PATA drives (4 onboard, plus 4 on each of 2 IDE cards).  Would I be able to get 2 more drives by adding anotehr Promise card, or is there still a 2 card limit?

For Promise, there's a 2-card-of-the-same-type limit - this is a Promise bios limitation.  You should be able to install a third card of a different type (try a SIIG card, though we haven't tested that, it should work with 4.0).  You could also plug a SATA card in there.

For Promise, there's a 2-card-of-the-same-type limit - this is a Promise bios limitation.  You should be able to install a third card of a different type (try a SIIG card, though we haven't tested that, it should work with 4.0).  You could also plug a SATA card in there.

 

at least as of the 3.x beta, I was unable to get the SIIG PATA controller to work with unRaid.

I'm intending to do a 14 HDD trial on Sunday, I just need to work out why 2 250gb HDDs on the Asus P5LD2-SE R2.0 Motherboard IDE controllers take the parity rebuild time to 12,000 hours!    The same HDDs & cables on the Promise card bring a parity rebuild time of around 320 minutes.  This is not v4 specific by the way.

 

If I work out what's wrong, or if Tom manages to integrate RocketRaid IDE Card controllers into UnRaid (something he's considering), I'll easily be able to get to 14, but without either of these option I can only get to 11 (8 IDE + the 3 Sata HDDs I have).  I could still do it if I'm prepared to wait 8.5 days for a parity rebuild.

 

Mark.

at least as of the 3.x beta, I was unable to get the SIIG PATA controller to work with unRaid.

 

Supposedly SIIG support is now included in linux 2.6 kernel (Sil680 chipset) - though we don't recommend it (lots of problem reports associated with SIIG & linux).