November 5, 201015 yr Hi, I put together a Salix distro (based on slackware 13.1) in order to install Unraid 5.0 beta 2 on it. Everything works fine except that I can't see the disks that are connected to the LSI SAS card (a SuperMicro AOC-USASLP-L8i) even if the OS can see them perfectly. I found out that there is no alias for those under /dev/disk/by-path (everything other by-... are populated correctly). Based on my understanding, Unraid is looking for device that shows in by-id and by-path so that's probably why it is not working. This is a know problem with the program path_id which is under /lib/udev as reported here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=553292 However, as I knew this was working when booting directly from the Unraid USB key, I figured I could probably copy the path_id from there to Salix. After doing this and rebooting, the aliases under /dev/disk/by-path were created and I can now access all of my drives from Unraid. I figured that info could be useful. And it also confirm you that this 8 ports PCI-E SAS card work pretty well under Unraid 5 (didn't try it under 4.5.6 so I can't comment on this version). It is a relatively cheap card (about 125-150$ CAD) that is supported by VMware ESXi 4.1, OpenSolaris 2009.06, just about any Linux distro with the MPT Fusion kernel module and, for sure, any Windows version. --- Edit: Just forgot to say that the temperature is not showing for the disks on this card. I'm not sure the spin-down thing is working on those neither. I did a single try to force all of them to spin-down and only the drives on the internal ports went down. That's not a show breaker for me but I thought it was worth telling. Hope this help. Have fun. ehfortin
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