Tom

 

If I have the suggested motherboard from v1.0 and want to upgrade to 14 drives from 12, what would be the best way to do this?  12 PATA and 2 SATA?  Would I want my parity drive to be a SATA drive?

 

 

 

 

Yes and Yes 

I have decided to add a SATA drive to my original v1.0 Intel D865GLCLK 12 PATA server now that I am using v4.0b8 this new drive is larger than any of my other drives so it needs to replace my current parity drive.

 

I changed my ATA/IDE Configuration to [Enhanced] from [Legacy] under Advanced --> Drive Configuration in the BIOS so the new SATA drive would be recognized by the BIOS, my problem is that unRaid will not boot with the new SATA drive plugged in, it just stops after listing the USB drive during start up.

 

Anybody that got this working have any suggestions ? is there some other setting in the BIOS that I missed ?

 

Thanks

I have decided to add a SATA drive to my original v1.0 Intel D865GLCLK 12 PATA server now that I am using v4.0b8 this new drive is larger than any of my other drives so it needs to replace my current parity drive.

 

I changed my ATA/IDE Configuration to [Enhanced] from [Legacy] under Advanced --> Drive Configuration in the BIOS so the new SATA drive would be recognized by the BIOS, my problem is that unRaid will not boot with the new SATA drive plugged in, it just stops after listing the USB drive during start up.

 

Anybody that got this working have any suggestions ? is there some other setting in the BIOS that I missed ?

 

Thanks

My understanding is that the BIOS is not used by Linux once it has booted. 

 

Have you tried leaving the ATA/IDE Configuration at "Legacy"? and see if the Linux OS sees the SATA drive once it boots?

 

I'm very interested in your success as I have the same motherboard and would love to take advantage of a sale on an SATA drive someday.

 

Joe L.

Thanks for the fast reply Joe

 

Just tried switching back to Legacy PATA Pri and Sec and the new drive is not visible to the Linux OS

 

Bugs me that its not booting in Enhanced, sure I am missing something simple

 

Rob

Thanks for the fast reply Joe

 

Just tried switching back to Legacy PATA Pri and Sec and the new drive is not visible to the Linux OS

 

Bugs me that its not booting in Enhanced, sure I am missing something simple

 

Rob

When you added the SATA drive, did you re-selelct the USB flash drive as the boot device in the bios?  I seem to remember that the motherboard would revert to the hard disk as the boot device when I changed flash drives.  It might be doing the same when you switched to Enhanced mode.  It might be trying to boot off of your parity drive.

 

Joe L.

The USB is still the boot drive, soon as I unplug the SATA drive it boots fine ??

Attached is a screen shot of where my server stops, this is just before unRaid typically starts to load.

not sure what "ot from the network" means next to Disk 2, I cannot tell if it is there during a normal boot or not since this screen is usually not displayed very long

 

You definitely need disk config set to "Enhanced".

 

Perhaps the extraneous text is trying to say, "Boot from the network".

What bios version are you using?

I have BIOS version P24 installed, I see the latest is P25, I will update to that and see if it helps.

I updated the BIOS to version P25 (newest on Intel site) and I still have the same problem, maybe I am doing something basic wrong so I will list what I am trying to do and what I am doing below.

 

I currently have the v1 hardware configuration with the Intel D865GLCLK motherboard and  server Bios vP25, Intel 2.26GHz Celeron D 315 Prescott 533MHz FSB Socket 478 Processor and 12 PATA drives installed as shown below.

 

 

What I want to do is replace my current 400GB PATA parity drive with a new Maxtor MaXLine Pro 500 500GB SATA (7H500F0) Hard Drive.

Steps listed below:

 

1. Shut down server

2. Connected new Maxtor 7H500F0 to SATA P0, leaving existing parity drive connected.

3. Rebooted and entered Setup in BIOS

4. Changed my ATA/IDE Configuration to [Enhanced] from [Legacy] under Advanced --> Drive Configuration in the BIOS

5. Made sure USB device is still boot device

6. Rebooted (F10) and entered Setup in BIOS to make sure Maxtor SATA was being recognized by the BIOS (it was)

7. Rebooted.

 

After the reboot I will get to the screen posted in one of my previous postings or just a blank screen where I would normally see unRaid boot, should I just leave it alone when I get this blank screen ? I suspect that nothing will happen if it does not complete the unRaid boot (tower login) or is this doing something that I need to wait for before it boots?

 

Things I have tried:

Disconnecting Maxtor SATA HD (boots fine)

I also tried a known working Western Digital HD in place of the Maxtor, so I know it not just a bad HD

Tried using SATA P1 on the motherboard

Older version of UnRaid (second key)

 

Thanks

Rob

OK, finally figured it out

 

I returned BIOS back to default settings and then changed each setting back to the recommended settings until I found the one that was giving me the problems.

I had to leave Parallel Port on [Auto] Mode [bi - Directional] under Peripheral Configuration, if I set it to [Disabled] the PC does boot unRaid OS

OK, finally figured it out

 

I returned BIOS back to default settings and then changed each setting back to the recommended settings until I found the one that was giving me the problems.

I had to leave Parallel Port on [Auto] Mode [bi - Directional] under Peripheral Configuration, if I set it to [Disabled] the PC does boot unRaid OS

That is great news...  certainly not intuitive that the Parallel Port would have anything to do with booting  from a USB drive.

 

Does this mean you now have 14 drives up and running? 12 PATA and 2 SATA?

 

Joe L.

Well maybe I spoke to soon 

 

I was attempting 12 PATA 1 SATA

I changed my new SATA to the parity drive yesterday (as recommended by Tom in other posts) and it seemed to go fine.

then I added my old parity drive as dick 12 after clearing and formating.

Problem is that now the server locks up when I run a parity check.

 

I ran hdparm -I device on the new parity drive (SATA) and got below, I think I still have a problem, and I am starting to think it is CPU or Motherboard related.

 

root@Tower:~# hdparm -i /dev/sda

 

/dev/sda:

HDIO_GET_IDENTITY failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device

root@Tower:~#

 

 

 

The

hdparm

command is meant for IDE drives and does not support all options with SATA drives (in particular -I), so your result is not surprising.

 

Also, needing to enable the parallel port makes no sense.  Clearly this is a bios issue.

 

We have a couple of the original D865GLCLK motherboards on a shelf & we'll try to build up a similar config as your's this weekend.

Thanks for the info on The hdparm command, I am a Linux newbie if it's not obvious.

 

I did not think the Parallel Port setting should have anything to do with unRAID booting, thanks for the confirmation.

 

Think it might be worth my using the "Recovery BIOS Update" from Intel ? http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-023360.htm or is it more likely to be a CMOS hardware problem.

 

I did update from to p25 from p24 with no issue, thought it was strange that my settings all remained though, I was expecting to see the defaults.

I am going to try adding a SATA as parity to my existing 10 PATA setup with v1 hardware. Did we ever get resolution on this issue?

I think it must be a problem with this particular hardware.

 

I've been running unRAID successfully with a 500GB SATA drive as my parity on D865GLCLK P0 for about 6 months now (I also have a data drive on P1 and 10 PATA data drives).

I think it must be a problem with this particular hardware.

 

I've been running unRAID successfully with a 500GB SATA drive as my parity on D865GLCLK P0 for about 6 months now (I also have a data drive on P1 and 10 PATA data drives).

 

I too have a v1.0 from Tom and I have a Seagate 500GB SATA set as my parity drive.

I am pretty sure the problem is my motherboard, I bought an Asus P5PE-VM for my unRAID server but ended up using it in my desktop which happened to die right after I got the new motherboard and had a higher priority since my unRAID server is working fine with my original 11 plus parity drive. I will probably just leave it alone as long as its working, unless I run out of other things to do "not likely" I apologize for not closing the loop on this, and will update if I do replace the motherboard.