How do I do it?  Complete noob here and freely admit that I know nothing about linux.  The card shows up in the BIOS posts, and displays the appropriate led to demonstrate it is connected to the right drive, so I'm going to assume that the card is physically functioning as it should.  But I would like unraid to see it, and for that I need to install drivers.  Instructions that I downloaded from http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/AOC-SAT2-MV8.pdf assume that I am installing from a cd on the same computer rather than my xp box connected via lan to the unraid box.

Even then, like I previously said, I'm pretty clueless about linux.  Are linux drivers one size fits all?  Do they have to be tailored to suit each variant?  Help please.

How do I do it?  Complete noob here and freely admit that I know nothing about linux.  The card shows up in the BIOS posts, and displays the appropriate led to demonstrate it is connected to the right drive, so I'm going to assume that the card is physically functioning as it should.  But I would like unraid to see it, and for that I need to install drivers.  Instructions that I downloaded from http://www.supermicro.com/manuals/other/AOC-SAT2-MV8.pdf assume that I am installing from a cd on the same computer rather than my xp box connected via lan to the unraid box.

Even then, like I previously said, I'm pretty clueless about linux.  Are linux drivers one size fits all?  Do they have to be tailored to suit each variant?  Help please.

They are not one-size-fits-all.

 

Either:

The driver is already  in the unRAID distribution,  (and I think they are for that card in the later releases)

Or, you set up a Slackware development environment with the exact same kernel and config file, and compile the kernel module yourself from source code,

Or, you plead with Lime-Technology to include a driver in some future release and wait, possibly forever, since even he cannot add it if it does not work from the driver developers,

Or, you choose  a different disk controller card that is supported in the stock distribution.

 

Joe L.

Unraid Version 4.5.6.  So, if you're right that this card is supported, it should be working and available out of the box.  Looks like I need to spend a bit more time denting my head on a brick wall trying to figure this out.

 

Thanks.

He is talking about the regular and widely used PCI-X version of the popular Supermicro controller.

 

You do not have to install any drivers, but you have to use one of the recent versions of Unraid.

 

You need first to stop your array once your computer boots, then go to the devices page and there you will be able to see (and assign) the new drives.

Be carefull here as usually when you add a new controller the drives order may changes

 

Good luck

 

 

Unraid Version 4.5.6.  So, if you're right that this card is supported, it should be working and available out of the box.  Looks like I need to spend a bit more time denting my head on a brick wall trying to figure this out.

 

Thanks.

Since you admit your Linux experience is limited, what makes you think the card is not working?

 

Do you see it in the system log?  Or not?  Have you looked there?

 

What are your symptoms?

 

Joe L.

I think it is working in that the LED on the card that corresponds to the appropriate sata cable slot that is plugged into my drive is lit.  When I boot, after the BIOS post, there is a brief post announcing the presence of the card and of 1 Sata drive.  By the time Unraid is up and running, I can see all the drives that are coming straight off the motherboard, but nothing from the card. 

I do not know how to access the system log.

The card is supported by unRAID as it comes to you so either it's a set-up or hardware issue.

 

Is there any option to hit a key for the card setup when the screen for the card pops up after the BIOS? I'd have to think it can't be set to any kind of RAID configuration. Basically, go in there and make sure it's set to just allow direct disk access by turning off any RAID type settings. But then, I don't have one so I'm not sure if there is any setup for the. Anyone else, are there any BIOS settings on that card?

 

Peter