November 19, 201015 yr Author 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
November 19, 201015 yr 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?
November 19, 201015 yr Author 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
November 19, 201015 yr 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.
November 27, 201015 yr Author Josh have you resolved your motherboard problem? No not yet, ASUS haven't got back to me yet. Josh
November 28, 201015 yr 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
December 6, 201015 yr 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
January 13, 201115 yr There is new firmware for this board. http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us
January 24, 201115 yr 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 ...
January 25, 201115 yr Author 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
February 2, 201115 yr 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?
February 2, 201115 yr Author 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
February 2, 201115 yr 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?
February 2, 201115 yr Author 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
February 3, 201115 yr 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
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