September 2, 201015 yr Hi! I tried for an hour to install the CF adapter on the machine but it doesn't work. I bought this adapter and a Kingston CF card: http://www.amazon.de/Dual-Adapter-CompactFlash-IDE-Bootfähig/dp/B000RIZVPY There is a master/slave and slave/master jumper on that adapter. Can anyone tell me on which port I should install the adapter with the CF card on the mainboard and what settings I should change in the BIOS of the board? The PC is nearly empty. I removed the floppy drive, the CD-ROM and every hard disc. Installed are four PCI cards: 2 * Promise SATA400 TX4 2* additional ethernet cards Thanks.
September 2, 201015 yr The board already has one GB port - I am not sure why are you populating two more as they wont be needed and will take IRQs. Connect the CF-IDE adapter to the "10" on the first picture, select the jumper as master and try to change the setting to boot from this.
September 2, 201015 yr The board already has one GB port - I am not sure why are you populating two more as they wont be needed and will take IRQs. Connect the CF-IDE adapter to the "10" on the first picture, select the jumper as master and try to change the setting to boot from this. Make sure that you connect the power cable to the CF adapter as well. (the one I purchased for my server did not get its power through the IDE connector, but through a separate cable.)
September 2, 201015 yr Author Hi! The board already has one GB port - I am not sure why are you populating two more as they wont be needed and will take IRQs. Connect the CF-IDE adapter to the "10" on the first picture, select the jumper as master and try to change the setting to boot from this. Make sure that you connect the power cable to the CF adapter as well. (the one I purchased for my server did not get its power through the IDE connector, but through a separate cable.) Yeah...okay....now it is clear that it can't work. I used the power connector of the old floppy drive. Now a small led is burning on the card. Bye.
September 2, 201015 yr Author Hi! The board already has one GB port - I am not sure why are you populating two more as they wont be needed and will take IRQs. Connect the CF-IDE adapter to the "10" on the first picture, select the jumper as master and try to change the setting to boot from this. I tried. The problem is, that I have only three entries on screen 3. PCI embedded seems to be the number 11/12 on the first screen. PCI Slot 1 and 2 are the Promise SATA300 TX4. I can choose C: and CD-ROM in the boot chain, but the system wouldn't boot from the card. Nevertheless I connected a CD-ROM to the IDE port "10" and installed FreeNAS to the hard disc which was connected to the SATA300 TX4. I don't get it. How can I tell this stupid box, that it should boot from the CF card?? Bye.
September 2, 201015 yr Author Hi! After 3 hours of testing it finally works. I changed the cable and connected the CF adapter to the first RAID port. BTW: What is the login name and password. I would like to find the ip address of the system. tower doesn't work. Bye.
September 2, 201015 yr Hi! After 3 hours of testing it finally works. I changed the cable and connected the CF adapter to the first RAID port. BTW: What is the login name and password. I would like to find the ip address of the system. tower doesn't work. Bye. Login as "root" there is no password until you assign one using the management interface, so just press enter if it even prompts you for a password.
September 2, 201015 yr Author Hi! Thank you all for your support. Can't waiting to see unRAID working. Bye.
September 3, 201015 yr Author Hi! I have another problem: unRAID comes up, as long as no drive is connected to my Promise SATA300 TX4. When I connect my 160 GB 2,5" hard drive to the controller it says: "ID Bus master enabled" The HD seems to be assigned as drive C:. After this, the internal controller boots up an shows the CF card. The problem is, that the machine tries to boot from the HD instead from the CF card. There is no OS on the HD so the boot process hangs and nothing happens. Picture 3 shows that the controller of the mainboard is still the number one. Any hints? Bye.
September 3, 201015 yr Hi! I have another problem: unRAID comes up, as long as no drive is connected to my Promise SATA300 TX4. When I connect my 160 GB 2,5" hard drive to the controller it says: "ID Bus master enabled" The HD seems to be assigned as drive C:. After this, the internal controller boots up an shows the CF card. The problem is, that the machine tries to boot from the HD instead from the CF card. There is no OS on the HD so the boot process hangs and nothing happens. Picture 3 shows that the controller of the mainboard is still the number one. Any hints? Bye. Boot order and priority is a function set in your BIOS. You need to set it appropriately. Some BIOS attempt to "help" you by setting the boot disk for you when it sees a new disk. (incorrectly setting it in most cases for unRAID users, but helping the much larger set of ms-windows uses with only one disk) So, just go into the BIOS and set the boot drive to be the CF disk.
September 3, 201015 yr Author Hi! I would, if I could. The boot controller order is: 1. CSB-6 Ultra ATA-100 IDE RAID controller (which is the on board IDE controller) 2. Other mass storage controller (Promise SATA300 TX4 I asume) 3. Other mass storage controller (Promise SATA300 TX4 I asume) Standard boot order: 1. CD-ROM 2. HD C: (See boot controller order) 3. Floppy A: 4. PCI embedded Gigabit Server adapter So far I understand the CF-card should boot before the SATA drive which is connected to the SATA300 TX4. I found some threads in the internet where people are describing the exact same problem. Might be a problem between the cheap controller and the HP board. No solution for this issue... Bye.
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