August 18, 201015 yr Hi there, this is my first post here and I hope you could help me. I'm reading this forum since a while now and just bought me a system with the following configuration for an awsome price: 3 HE/U 19" Industrial Server Case AIC RMC-3E2-PI-XPSS 3 x Power Supply hot plug redundant (2+1) Zippy R3G-6650P 350W 16 x HDD hot swap frame 3.5" 1 x SATA/SATA-II Backplane 1 x optical drive slim DVD/CDRW, 1 x FDD slim option (empty) 1 x Controller Areca ARC-1160ML PCI-X (for 16 HDDs) Motherboard Supermocro H8DAE-B with 2 x CPU AMD Opteron Dual Core 2.2 GHz OSA275FAA6CB + orig. AMD Heatpipe Cooler 4 GB (2 x 2 GB) RAM DDR PC3200 ECC reg. CL3 Additionally I bought 2 WD 2 TB EARS Harddisks. (I have got some more older ones to plug in later on, if Unraid works and when I buy the Professional Version) I installed Unraid on a 4 GB San Disc Stick, plugged it into the server and Unraid Booted without Problems.... Beside the Harddisks are not recognized. I would like to know how to set up the ARC-1160ML so Unraid could find the HDD. I could see them in the controller, Unraid "sees" all LUN of the controller during the boot phase but can't find the HDDs. There is a pass through option in ARC-1160ML but if I would like to activate it I get the error, there is no IDE disk. Currently the Controller is in JBOD Mode. Connecting to the server via Broswer works, but if I try to assign a disk, the combobox just shows me an "Unassigned". If you could help me and if I get the System running with Unraid, I could tell you where to get it (in Europe) Regards, Athu
August 19, 201015 yr Pass through or JBOD should work. It did on my Areca ARC-1200. In fact RAID0 and RAID1 also work. Perhaps the bios needs updating?
August 19, 201015 yr Additionally I bought 2 WD 2 TB EARS Harddisks. Are the 2TB WD EARS drives like the 1.5TB ones? Don't you have to jump pins 7 and 8 for it to work in unRAID?
August 19, 201015 yr Author Problem Solved... The 2TB WD EARS don't accept the setting of Max SATA Speed of 150! I switched it to Max SATA Speed of 300 and Unraid is able to see the HDDs. BTW. yes they are like the the 1.5 TB ones and I set a Jumper on Pin 7 and 8 before I started with Unraid. What do you think about the Config of my System? Used Parts, but all in all around 700 € for the Server without HDDs.
August 19, 201015 yr I would be interested to see the benchmarks of parity check speed and dd write benchmark on a protected drive. http://code.google.com/p/unraid-weebotech/downloads/detail?name=writeread10gb&can=2&q=
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