Hi. I noticed in the Hardware Compatibility Listing that the "Promise SATAII150/SATA300 TX4" card is listed, but not the Promise SATA300 TX2plus TX2 4 Port Controller Card. I can get these cards at a good price, but won't want to buy them if they won't work with unraid. Do they use the same Chipset? Can someone confirm whether these TX2 cards work with unraid? Thanks.

 

I don't know about the TX2, but in this day and age, why buy a PCI card at all?  PCI-e is much faster, and not much more expensive.

That is a valid point, actually I have two 1x pci-e slot and one 16x pci-e slot as well. I think the hardware compatibility listing might be out of date and newer compatible cards might be out and supported by unraid, your thoughts? I'm after either a 4 to 8 port sata raid controller, native support (out of the box) support with unraid and using the either a pci-e 1x or a 16x slot. I assume you can use the 16x pci-e slot for a 1x slot device too, it should be backwards compatible?

The latest and greatest is the Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 (note that you will also need SAS-to-SATA cables for this).  Only unRAID version 4.5.3 supports this card, and it is assumed that the later versions will support it as well.

 

Unfortunately that card is currently out of stock at Newegg, but if memory serves it cost about $100, plus another $15-30 for the cables.

 

It should work in a PCI-e 16x slot, however, that is ultimately up to your motherboard.  Some mobos only allow video cards in their PCI-e slot, so you'll have to check on yours specifically.

I've got to see whether my mobo supports addon cards in the 16x pci-e slot other than video cards and a problem is that 4.5.3 stops wol from working on my nic on my server. But I'll look into it and thanks again for the advice.

I've got to see whether my mobo supports addon cards in the 16x pci-e slot other than video cards and a problem is that 4.5.3 stops wol from working on my nic on my server. But I'll look into it and thanks again for the advice.

I didn't see it neccessary to create a new thread when the title is already so perfect. I have the SATA300 TX2plus PCI Card. I know it's only over the PCI bus BUT I already have the hardware and I am trying to NOT to spend money on this first build. Can anyone confirm or deny that it works with unRAID? I'd just go ahead and test it out BUT that card is currently used in my main Ubuntu workstation which I do all my personal project on as far as kdenlive video editing, devede DVD creation, it's comptuer I sit at to ssh into all my other boxes. I'd rather not take it apart to get the TX2plus out of it only to find I didn't need to because the controller doesn't work anyway. The way I am using it now is because it came with a break out external SATA type dewhicky (lol), so I have the breakout conncected to the card, and then an external sata enclosure accesses this 1TB drive on my desktop. I don't hotplug, it's always there and on BUT this 1TB drive will be moving to the new server just torying to figure out if the TX2plus card will work and it comeone can confirm it working i'll rip it out as it won't need to be in my main workstation anymore.

 

Thanks for any help you can provide.

I hope you get an answer to your question, but if not, have you thought about booting your main workstation with an unraid flash drive? If the hard disks connected to the TX2 appear on the devices of the web management tool (v. 4.7) then you are good to go.

99% sure that Promise controller will work fine with unRaid.

99% sure that Promise controller will work fine with unRaid.

 

As am I. find out what the chip is on the card, then compare that with the .config file in unraid

 

here's what I could find on my unRAID

 

root@atlas /usr/src/linux #ls -l $PWD/.config
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 48738 Jan 24  2011 /usr/src/linux/.config

root@atlas /usr/src/linux #grep -i romise $PWD/.config
CONFIG_SATA_PROMISE=m

root@atlas /lib #strings /lib/modules/2.6.32.9-unRAID/kernel/drivers/ata/sata_promise.ko | egrep -i TX2
description=Promise ATA TX2/TX4/TX4000 low-level driver

You guys are awesome! Thanks so much for the info from your .config as well as the poster who said to just boot my current workstation into unRAID and check out the webgui to see if unRAID see's the externally connected eSATA drive and other sata drives I have connected. THANKS. Build is slow due to other personal projects BUT I am so anxious to get this up and running.