AngelEyes Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 Hi, I bought a couple of these to expand my storage to 10 2TB drives and installed them in my unRaid Server. For some reason unRaid only detects one drive on each controller card rather than the 2 connected. I have double checked cables and all seems connected fine and the drive caddies all have power. I assume it is a driver issue as the jumpers are all in the correct positions. The cards do come with a driver disk but I no nothing about Linux so wondered if anyone could explain how to install them on my Flash drive? The opions are: Fedora Mac RedHat <--- this one right? SuSe Win64 Win32 Under Redhat I have folders for: RedHat_ENT40_32bit RedHat_ENT40_64bit RedHat_ENT41_32bit RedHat_ENT41_64bit Inside the first of these I have the following: grub (folder) lilo (folder) old (folder) initial_install.sh load-driver-from-floppy.sh modules.cgz RedHat_3132_INSTALL.txt SiI.id.txt upgrade_driver.sh I am a total nube at this so any help would be great Thanks. Adam Link to comment
Joe L. Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 Those drivers would not be compatible with unRAID. If the manufacturer supplied source code, and if you set up a development instance of Slackware with exactly the same kernel, and copied the .config from the unRAID distribution to it, and then compiled a unRAID version, it might work. (assuming no other compatibility issues) Unfortunately, it is not a task for the newbie. You cannot just install their drivers on the flash drive. Link to comment
AngelEyes Posted November 25, 2010 Author Share Posted November 25, 2010 Hi Joe, Thanks for the help. Is it normal to require the drivers for this sort of thing? I thought this chipset was supported by unRaid? Cheers, Adam Link to comment
AngelEyes Posted November 25, 2010 Author Share Posted November 25, 2010 This is the exact card I purchased if that is of any use. http://www.kustompcs.co.uk/acatalog/info_4472.html Adam Link to comment
bcbgboy13 Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 I will suggest you start with a single card. Check to see if both drives will be visible during the boot and in Unraid. If not you may have purchased cards with Raid firmware by default and you will have to flash the card's BIOS with a non-RAID one. It is easier to do in another Windows computer. Instructions are provided on the Silicon Image web site here - http://www.siliconimage.com/support/faq.aspx and the files are here - http://www.siliconimage.com/support/searchresults.aspx?pid=32&cat=15&os=0 The latest firmware is from 09/09/2009 and the non-RAID BIOS is the file with name: b7703.bin Then try again - it should work now and you do not have to install any drivers. The card may not work if used in the big PCIe x16 slot often used for video cards but should not have problems in the others smaller PCIe Link to comment
AngelEyes Posted November 25, 2010 Author Share Posted November 25, 2010 You star, I'll give that a go over the weekend Thanks, Adam Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted November 25, 2010 Share Posted November 25, 2010 When you boot there should be some option to hit a key and get into the card set-up. Maybe something like F8? Do that and see if both drives show up in the set-up for the card. Also, you can check that the card is set to JBOD for the disks. Peter Link to comment
AngelEyes Posted November 27, 2010 Author Share Posted November 27, 2010 Hi Chaps, I seem to be struggling with what should be very simple. I have attached one card (EDIT: but no drives) and using the Utility I can identify it as follows: C:\>SiFlashTool /v Silicon Image Flash BIOS programming tool version 1.0 Controller Type PCI Location Flash Part BIOS Ver. BIOS Date ============================================================================= Sil 3132 Bus:05 Dev:00 UNKNOWN 7.4.05 10-05-2006 I then use the tool to Flash the adapter: C:\>SiFlashTool /File:b7703.bin Silicon Image Flash BIOS programming tool version 1.0 Selected Sil 3132 on PCI bus: 0x05 device: 0x00 Nothing seems to happen? I recheck the adapter and the same Bios date is shown. Silicon Image Flash BIOS programming tool version 1.0 Usage: SiFlashTool [/busNum:xx /DevNum:xx] [/File:filespec] [/v] where: BusNum / DevNum These parameters specify the PCI bus and device number respectively of a Silicon Image storage controller. These parameters only need to be used if there is more than one Silicon Image storage controller in the system. File: This parameter specifies the path and name of the BIOS image file to be programmed. /V This switch causes the program to only display the version number of a controller's BIOS. No BIOS image is programmed when this switch is used. The /File parameter is ignored if specified along with this switch. If /BusNum and/or /Devnum are specified, then only the BIOS versions of controller's at the specified PCI locations are displayed. Any ideas? Thanks BTW there is a Bios boot message about the adapter but no tip on what to select to access it. Adam Link to comment
BRiT Posted November 27, 2010 Share Posted November 27, 2010 You need to power cycle after flashing firmware in many cases. Link to comment
lionelhutz Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Many of those cards have a read-only memory device instead of a writable memory device and therefore they can not be reflashed. It must be cheaper to do this I guess. The chip with the RAID sticker is the memory. People here have said that the card will work with the RAID firmware but I ran into one that either would not work or was not compatible with my motherboard for some reason. I could read from the attached drive but the data being read back was corrupt. Peter Link to comment
AngelEyes Posted November 29, 2010 Author Share Posted November 29, 2010 I did try a power cycle and no joy... I bought 2 of these cards, bummer. Link to comment
Rajahal Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 I'm surprised your cards don't work, since I've used several of these SIL3132 cards in several different builds. They have all been plug and play, although I believe the most recent one I bought is defective as it has been giving me problems. Link to comment
Joe L. Posted November 29, 2010 Share Posted November 29, 2010 Earlier in this post you provided a link to the exact card you purchased. On that page it says: Can use 2 out of 4 ports at once, active ports set by onboard jumpers. Is it possible the jumpers are set to use one internal port, and one external, rather than both internal ports? That would easily explain the issues you are having. Link to comment
queeg Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 I have a problem with one of my sil3132 cards. It's the 2530 from Monoprice. This card worked great in my Asus mobo but I've changed to the Biostar A760G M2+ and now it's acting up. First, no drive was visible so I moved it from the 16x PCIe slot to the 1x and I can see 2 drives. But I was preclearing a drive in one of it's ports and it was like stuck on 0%. So I'm going to do the firmware update on this card and see if it fixes it. I have a second sil3132 card but it's the one with 2 eSata ports and it seems to be fine in either the 1x or 16x PCIe slot. Odd. Link to comment
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