abq-pete Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 Key specs: H55 and JMB363 chipsets providing 6 SATA ports, 1 eSATA port, 1 IDE port, 2 x8 PCI-e slots, 1 x1 PCIe Slot and a single PCI Slot, onboard video (VGA, HDMI and DVI) via Clarksdale CPUs, onboard speaker, Realtek 8111DL LAN. Test setup: i3-530 CPU, 4GB G.Skill ECO ram, 2 Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, Corsair HX750, 1 WD20EADS (parity), 2 WD20EARS (with jumpers for data) running unRAID 4.5.6. Other cards rotated in include Adaptec 1430SA and Syba 2 port PCI-e. I've run parity checks 3 times with no incidents (last syslog attached). I've transferred about 500GB of data in one session (couple of hours) without any network issues. I've tried a number of configurations verifying speed and functionality on each of the different ports (onboard SATA, eSATA, AOC-SASLP-MV8, Adaptec 1430SA and a Syba 2 port). No problems noted in any of the configurations. The things I did not test were the IDE and PCI slots. Experts, please take a look at the syslog and let me know what you think. My intention is to replace my main rig's Intel D975XBX2 / Intel E2180 setup with this more energy efficient one. Regards, Peter 2010-08-17 edited to correct CPU info syslog_MSI_SuperMicroAOCx2.txt Link to comment
BRiT Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Without resorting to port-multipliers or using the PCI bus it can support 25 drives: 6 SATA MB, 1 eSATA to internal SATA cable, 8 SATA Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, 8 SATA Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8, 2 SATA PCI-Express 1x card. One thing to remember that I think WeeboTech or BubbaQ mentioned, the AOC-SASLP-MV8 supports port multipliers and under a brief test didn't seem to impact the overall speed compared to non-port multiplier setup. I too jumped on the bargain to pick up this motherboard. I haven't converted my unRAID server over to it yet, but it's working great so far under Slackware64 Current on a Linux 2.6.35.2 kernel. Here's some info from my running system including cpuinfo, sensors, cpufreq-info and ethtool. I pruned what I copied from cpuinfo and cpufreq-info down to 1 from 4 cores; the other 3 cores are identical. # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 3 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 37 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 530 @ 2.93GHz stepping : 2 cpu MHz : 1200.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 4 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 apicid : 0 initial apicid : 0 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 11 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 5879.97 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management: # sensors coretemp-isa-0000 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 0: +27.0°C (high = +89.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) coretemp-isa-0001 Adapter: ISA adapter Core 2: +27.0°C (high = +89.0°C, crit = +105.0°C) f71889fg-isa-0a00 Adapter: ISA adapter in0: +1.74 V in1: +0.99 V (max = +2.04 V) in2: +0.76 V in3: +0.99 V in4: +1.10 V in5: +1.11 V in6: +1.14 V in7: +1.61 V in8: +1.66 V fan1: 1216 RPM fan2: 0 RPM ALARM fan3: 0 RPM ALARM temp1: +29.0°C (high = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C) ALARM (crit = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C) ALARM sensor = Intel PECI temp2: +36.0°C (high = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C) ALARM (crit = +255.0°C, hyst = +251.0°C) ALARM sensor = thermistor temp3: +26.0°C (high = +255.0°C, hyst = +253.0°C) ALARM (crit = +255.0°C, hyst = +253.0°C) ALARM sensor = transistor # cpufreq-info cpufrequtils 007: cpufreq-info (C) Dominik Brodowski 2004-2009 Report errors and bugs to [email protected], please. analyzing CPU 3: driver: acpi-cpufreq CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 0 1 2 3 CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 0 maximum transition latency: 10.0 us. hardware limits: 1.20 GHz - 2.93 GHz available frequency steps: 2.93 GHz, 2.80 GHz, 2.67 GHz, 2.53 GHz, 2.40 GHz, 2.27 GHz, 2.13 GHz, 2.00 GHz, 1.87 GHz, 1.73 GHz, 1.60 GHz, 1.47 GHz, 1.33 GHz, 1.20 GHz available cpufreq governors: ondemand, userspace current policy: frequency should be within 1.20 GHz and 2.93 GHz. The governor "ondemand" may decide which speed to use within this range. current CPU frequency is 1.20 GHz (asserted by call to hardware). # ethtool -i eth0 driver: r8169 version: 2.3LK-NAPI firmware-version: bus-info: 0000:03:00.0 # ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised pause frame use: No Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Full Link partner advertised pause frame use: No Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 1000Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pumbg Wake-on: g Current message level: 0x00000033 (51) Link detected: yes Link to comment
PeterB Posted August 18, 2010 Share Posted August 18, 2010 Test setup: i5-530 CPU .... I cannot find info on this processor. Do you mean i3-530, or another if the i5 devices? Link to comment
abq-pete Posted August 18, 2010 Author Share Posted August 18, 2010 My bad. Thanks for catching that. I have updated the original post. Regards, Peter Link to comment
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