So the motherboard has the option() but it seems since I have this controller card it goes into it's own bios to init the drives and they take over the boot order?  I get Missing operating system but the usb stick worked in my old machine and I can see the contents when I stick in my desktop.

 

Controller: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101358

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131608

 

Any ideas? The boot priority is set to USB Stick and then the rest are disabled.

okay, so it's not the hardware, somehow my disk was not set to boot. I redid the setup and it's working now! ;-)

Many BIOS will reset the boot order when they see a new disk or a new disk controller to help you.  Expect it if you change hardware or even when you add a new disk.

Many BIOS will reset the boot order when they see a new disk or a new disk controller to help you.  Expect it if you change hardware or even when you add a new disk.

 

My guess is this is what is happening. My Supermiocro mobo with the same SATA card does this too. If you make any changes to your config, you have to go back into the BIOS and check that the flash drive is the primary hard drive, if you have chosen to boot from a hard drive. Newly discovered drives jump the queue, no matter what your previous settings are.

I just learned this trick recently: go into the SuperMicro card BIOS (press ctrl-m at the right time) and disable INT 13h for all your SuperMicro cards (if you have more than one).  This setting makes it so that none of your hard drives on the SuperMicro card can ever steal boot priority!  HDDs on the motherboard still can, though.

I just learned this trick recently: go into the SuperMicro card BIOS (press ctrl-m at the right time) and disable INT 13h for all your SuperMicro cards (if you have more than one).

 

Thanks!!! Just yesterday I added drives 19 and 20 to my server and wouldn't you know, I started geting the boot failed message. Disabling INT 13 on the MV8 cards did the trick. Back up and running with all 20 drives (27TB total) connected. Do you have some magic that will make the preclears run faster? 

Do you have some magic that will make the preclears run faster? 

It ran really fast on the 8Gig Quantum Fireball drive I used when developing it...      Only took a few minutes to clear the entire drive.  The secret is to use an older drive.

 

These modern drives are a lot slower... I'm 20% through the pre-clear on a 1.5TB 7200 RPM Seagate I added to one of my servers this morning.  It has been running for an hour now at a rate of approx. 85MB/s.

 

Joe L.

 

Do you have some magic that will make the preclears run faster? 

 

Yes, add -t after the preclear command 

 

Just kidding, that will basically skip all the important stuff.  It will just test if the drive has been previously precleared.

It ran really fast on the 8Gig Quantum Fireball drive I used when developing it...  Only took a few minutes to clear the entire drive.  The secret is to use an older drive.

 

Sounds like a good plan, Tomm can you please patch unRAID so vNext is capable of supporting 100, 200 or 300 8GB drives, thanks. ;-) P.S suggest this version ships with ear defenders since I recall my old fireballs being screamers...