pras1011 Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 What are the bios settings required on this board when using it with unraid? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 What are the bios settings required on this board when using it with unraid? 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 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. As above mate. You don't have to change much if you don't want to I just disable a lot of stuff as it isn'e being used so will reduce chance of conflicts and speed boot up time. If you leave it all enabled it won't make much difference (only the AHCI). you just have to make sure the Boot HDD order is set so that the USB is the only one or the first one and the boot order is the USB first. I think the wiki also has some info. Let us know if you have any issues Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Thanks Josh. I don't have a computer monitor but I was wondering if I could plug the board into my TV or amp via the HDMI connectors? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 I don't have a computer monitor but I was wondering if I could plug the board into my TV or amp via the HDMI connectors? I believe you can. (It does have HDMI) I believe it is digital though. (I tried converting the HDMI into DVI analogue but it didn't seem to work) Josh Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 The amp and tv do digital hdmi so there shouldn't be a problem. Quote Link to comment
mbryanr Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Thanks Josh. I don't have a computer monitor but I was wondering if I could plug the board into my TV or amp via the HDMI connectors? No problems with doing that. That is what I do on the Asus M4A785-M board. Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 Josh have you resolved your motherboard problem? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted November 27, 2010 Author Share Posted November 27, 2010 Josh have you resolved your motherboard problem? No not yet, ASUS haven't got back to me yet. Josh Quote Link to comment
perfessor101 Posted November 28, 2010 Share Posted November 28, 2010 Hello, NCIX in Vancouver finally got my forward breakout cables, so I picked up the card and cables on Saturday ... Plugged everything in and with AHCI ON booted without problems into both Windows 7 64-bit and then unRaid 4.6-rc3. Currently I have one WD dual proc 1 TB drive on /dev/sda or motherboard SATA Port 1. I just finished using EvilPenguins wrapper for handbrake to compress all of my media about a month ago, so I went from 11 TB of raw Mpeg2 SD recordings down to less than 3TB of h.264 MKV's. So now ... I have a few hard drives I can take out of my first unRaid pro server for testing this combination ... Is there any way I can completely rewrite parity on the parity drive without loosing parity? and remove a few drives at the same or similar time? (One annoying pending sector on the parity drive) or just remove the drives in question and then rebuild parity? keeping an eagle eye on that parity drive Remove Drive Without Losing Parity http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=2591.msg20919#msg20919 - The last time I tried to do this for more than one drive before rebooting it triggered a parity rebuild. Thanks for your time, Bobby syslog attached ... I guess I can only use four processors with unRaid 4.6-rc3 .... syslog-2010-11-28.txt Quote Link to comment
perfessor101 Posted December 6, 2010 Share Posted December 6, 2010 Here's my syslog after completing a parity build ... I have a 1TB drive for Windows 7 Professional - 64 bit on the Motherboard For unRaid I have 4 drives on the Supermicro card and one more on the motherboard for a total of five drives under unRaid. (trying to use ports on the motherboard and the both groups on the Supermicro card) I forgot to install the AHCI drivers in Windows 7 and had to switch to IDE Compatability to compress some shows ... When I went back to unRaid I forgot to switch the BIOS back to AHCI. After compressing some more shows today ... I'll change the BIOS to AHCI for a parity check. syslog-2010-12-06.txt Quote Link to comment
pras1011 Posted January 13, 2011 Share Posted January 13, 2011 There is new firmware for this board. http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us Quote Link to comment
perfessor101 Posted January 24, 2011 Share Posted January 24, 2011 I put the 1703 BIOS for the M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 into the M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 motherboard I'm using as my HTPC ... it has completely frozen three times in three days ... Stability improvements - not what I had hoped for ... I'll send Asus an email in the morning ... Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted January 25, 2011 Author Share Posted January 25, 2011 I'm not using the latest Bios for the board but the one before and have not had any stability issues at all. unRaid was up for about 70 days, only had to reboot now becasue of adding an APC UPS and moving the server into a closet. Josh Quote Link to comment
pantner Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Hey, im looking at getting this board to use for a new (first) unraid server. Have you had any issues other then the supermicro card? i'll be using WD/Seagate drives. I do have 1 samsung, but its a 500GB. Don't think its a F3, so will hopefully run with the controller at 6Gbps. If not, i have a SAS card i'll be using. How much/what type of RAM are you running in the machine? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 hi pantner, You have to downgarde the firmware on the Supermicro SASLP MV8 card to get it to work. there looks like there will be no fix for it but it does seem to work on the older firmware. Josh Quote Link to comment
pantner Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 like i said, not an issue. i have another card. so, thats been the only issue you've had? How much/what type of RAM are you running in the machine? Quote Link to comment
joshpond Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Yes that is the only issue. Runs stable. had it on for about 70 days until I had to install a ups and hdd. Going to start doing level 2 testing although the parity tests i did a month apart were all fine. I'm using kingston 2gb ram. it was the cheapest name brand ram. Josh Quote Link to comment
pantner Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 sounds good thx for the reply will try and pickup on my way home... just need to wait for my SATA DOM to come in the mail and i can buy my key Quote Link to comment
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