joshpond Posted October 31, 2010 Share Posted October 31, 2010 Hi all, I have the Asus M4A89GTD Pro USB3 motherboard. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131631&cm_re=ASUS_M4A89GTD_Pro_USB3-_-13-131-631-_-Product Just upgraded to it from my old budget board as I wanted a PWM chassis fan and this also provides 2x PCIe x8 (If used together) and a PCIe x4. I've put my hdds back in and run a parity check too. Ive attached my syslog. Can anyone let me know if it is all ok and if so how I can add to the wiki. FOR THOSE WITH THE SUPERMICRO SASLP MV8 AOC board, see this post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9488.msg91984#msg91984 May need to downgrade the firmware to 3.1.0.15 to get Motherboard AHCI to work with the card. Thanks Josh syslog-2010-10-31.txt Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 Also forgot to note that at the moment I'm running the onboard SATA ports as 3GBs as I've heard they can sometimes have a few issues with some samsung drives that haven't had their firmware updated. A quick google will tell you more. It seems like an easy fix but none of my drives are SATA III so I didn't bother. Josh Quote Link to comment
joeyke87 Posted November 2, 2010 Share Posted November 2, 2010 Also forgot to note that at the moment I'm running the onboard SATA ports as 3GBs as I've heard they can sometimes have a few issues with some samsung drives that haven't had their firmware updated. A quick google will tell you more. It seems like an easy fix but none of my drives are SATA III so I didn't bother. Josh I have the same board (except usb3). I have one Samsung drive (parity) and i had to set the sata ports to 3gbs in order to have it working. Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 2, 2010 Author Share Posted November 2, 2010 Hi Joeyke87, It has to do with the SB controller that runs the 6Gbs and it only interferes with some of the Samsung drives. You can either step down to the 3Gbs which is faster than most drives anyway or upgrade the firmware on the drives. I believe from memory only certain models have the issue and I think it is the F3 drives. I'm running the green drives which aren't a problem. If you search the samsung website it will tell you which model numbers have the issue. Josh Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Just an update, Having a few issues getting a Supermicro AOC SASLP MV8 running on this board. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=8703.0 Different to what Shawn was getting. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=7768.0 Running the 6 onboard SATAs alone and the NIc had no issues. There seems to be a clash with the SATA controller and this card. The card works as long as the SATA controller is disabled which kind of defeats the purpose. ATM all my drives are on the supermicro and it works, I just can't use my SATA ports. Still googling so may find a solution. Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Just to clarify: You can have two Supermicro MV8 sata expansion cards to run 16 drives but you need to deactivate the motherboards sata ports? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 10, 2010 Author Share Posted November 10, 2010 Just to clarify: You can have two Supermicro MV8 sata expansion cards to run 16 drives but you need to deactivate the motherboards sata ports? You should be able to run 3 supermicro cards (I've just got the one at the moment) on this board, it has 2 PCIe1 x16 (runs x8) and one PCIe x4. When I have just the one card it clashes with the SATA ports. Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 10, 2010 Share Posted November 10, 2010 Each Supermicro card costs me £85 excluding postage! So you disable the on board sata ports to stop the clash? Damn this is annoying. I might have to go to the previous Asus board the M4A785TD. Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 So you disable the on board sata ports to stop the clash? Yes. Try it out first. If you have problems with it booting, unplug the supermicro, boot to bios and disable the SATA controllers and then plug the card back in and it will should work. If you find it all works with disabling then let me know. I'm trying to get to the bottom of it and have asked ASUS. It seems the gigabyte board with the SB850 chipset seems to work fine. I might have to go to the previous Asus board the M4A785TD. The other ASUS board I have as well is limited to the number of HDDs, will only get to 16-17 before you hit limits. Josh Quote Link to comment
perfessor101 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 I have this board too and I'm just waiting for the place I bought it from to get the cables in stock ... (they already have the Supermicro card there waiting ...) I have been testing the stability of my next main computer and before I replace the old one I thought I could do some more testing of this ... So I'll start bugging ASUS about this problem too ;-) Bobby Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 First reply from ASUS: Dear Valued Customer, Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service. My name is Stacey and it's my pleasure to help you with your problem. I did not hear this kind of cases before. In this situation, if you enable the onboard controller and do not use any HDDs on it, can the system work? Maybe you can clear the cmos to load default settings and try again. Besides, please make sure that your power supply is enough. Maybe you could use all the power connectors(24+ at the same time. Welcome to refer Troubleshooting & FAQ for ASUS products in ASUS website: Troubleshooting - http://support.asus.com/troubleshooting/troubleshooting.aspx?SLanguage=en-us FAQ - http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us If you continue to experience issues in the future, please do not hesitate to contact us. Best Regards, Stacey ASUS Customer Service I've tried all that already so have replied so and we'll see where that goes. Josh Quote Link to comment
perfessor101 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 I'm hoping if they get enough complaints from different parts of the world ... they might find a solution ... I got help with the memory timings in the forums ... I needed them set to DOCP and the memory rate. unRaid on an AMD 1090T with DDR3-1666 memory ... but that will only be to see if I can get the AOC SASLP MV8 and M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 working together. I'll check my BIOS on both when the card and cables arrive ... I don't think I'll have much better luck than anyone else with this motherboard and the Supermicro card though ... but voices in numbers ;-) Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 Ok, Well I have some luck. I had a problem booting in IDE mode as mentioned before as one of my WD drives was set to power up in standby which caused the mobo to see SMART and not boot. (See previous posts). I unpinned the drive, cleared the CMOS and I can now boot hdds on the mobo and the Supermicro AS LONG AS the SATA controller is set to IDE mode and not AHCI. unRAID starts and everything looks ok. The only thing is that the drives are now IDE drives. Having a quick search and read it seams that this is not ideal as it may slow writes down. I'll have a better search later but it is late and I'm tired. Does anyone know if this will be a major issue and what some of the minor issues may be? At least all the ports can be used. Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 What hdds are you using? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 What hdds are you using? Cache: WD 500AADS 6x Samsung HD154UI ecogreen f2 The boot up fails with no drives attached in AHCI mode. I haven't tried RAID but I hear mixed things, some say it is fine others not. IDE mode still works (haven't tried) but I hear parity checks may be slow. Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 11, 2010 Share Posted November 11, 2010 Maybe its an unknown hdd problem thats causing the issue? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 11, 2010 Author Share Posted November 11, 2010 Maybe its an unknown hdd problem thats causing the issue? What do you mean by unknown hdd problem? I've booted with onboard SATA in AHCI with drives attached and still no go. Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 It could be a problem with your hdds maybe? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 It could be a problem with your hdds maybe? I've tried booting with nothing attached and still no go. Has anyone else tried this? Maybe I have a defective board? Thanks Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 I am going to take the risk and buy this board. But I won't get all the parts until the end of the first week of December! Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 I bought the board as the specs looked good, 2 PCIe x8 (if both used) and PCIe x4 and PCIe x1. 6gbs on board SATA (although not needed). Just have to see if I can get to bottom of the SATA AHCI issue. Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 I have ordered one of these. What is the recommended BIOS settings? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 16, 2010 Author Share Posted November 16, 2010 What is the recommended BIOS settings? I cleared the CMOS with the jumper pins, disabled everything I didn't need (which is pretty much everything) except USB and LAN. SATA controller set to IDE. The USB I drive I left in Auto as anything over 512MB it sets as HDD anyway and mine is a 2GB flash drive. Boot hard drives all disabled except flash drive and boot order just flash drive. Also this is the latest I have from ASUS after going back and forth a few times. Dear Valued Customer, Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service. I suspect Option ROM is not enough. Maybe you can enter BIOS>BOOT>Boot Device priority and try both the HDDs on board and card as the 1st Drive for a test. Best Regards, Stacey ASUS Customer Service Now that doesn't make much sens to me. Not sure what option ROM is so off to google and find out a bit more. Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 16, 2010 Share Posted November 16, 2010 I meant what is the general bios settings for this board? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 17, 2010 Author Share Posted November 17, 2010 I meant what is the general bios settings for this board? Sorry you lost me? Quote Link to comment
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