kizer Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 I've recently purchased a AOC-SASLP-MV8 card with the cables to hook up 8 additional drives. I'm not really ready for the card nor the cables, but I wanted to have everything on hand when/if I need them because I'm kinda like that. Prepaired I guess. Anyways one question I have is there going to be a change in performance because I'm not using the onboard Sata connections vs a card? My system is listed in my signature just in case anybody wonders and says it all depends on your setup. What I'm trying to get down to is, should I hang my newer drives off the expansion card or put my older drives on the expansion card or is there no advantages either way? The reason I ask is my older drives are obviously are only going to be really used to read opposed to write, but if there is no real benifit either way then I'll just stop worrying about things and keep on moving the way I'm moving. Link to comment
kizer Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 One thing I never asked is it as simple as plugging in the card and hanging your drives off of it or is there something else I need to look at? I have 1 out of 6 empty Sata connection still open do I need to fill that first or does it really make a difference. I'm going to say it doesn't make a difference, but figured might as well ask anyways. Link to comment
Joe L. Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 One thing I never asked is it as simple as plugging in the card and hanging your drives off of it Basically yes. Just don't dislodge the cables to the other drives as you install the new ones. Link to comment
kizer Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 Thanks Joe L. Figured it was that simple. I more or less thought of it as another connection in the box. Link to comment
Chris Pollard Posted December 20, 2010 Share Posted December 20, 2010 most likely there won't be any noticeable performance difference when reading. Certainly hasn't been in any of the 3 motherboards I have used the card in. Link to comment
kizer Posted December 20, 2010 Author Share Posted December 20, 2010 Thanks guys. I just tried it at lunch. Shutdown, inserted card with one patch cable, connected drive to P0 and it fired right up. Kinda cool knowing I have enough for 8more drives. I just now have to find a IDE to SATA patch cable with a bunch of leads on it. Monoprice.com here I come. Link to comment
duderaid Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Is there a setting I am missing either in unraid or on the card that will recognize a new harddrive without rebooting? Link to comment
Chuck Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I do not believe unRAID supports hot insert/swap/removal, so a reboot is always needed regardless of the HBA/adapter used. Link to comment
Joe L. Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I do not believe unRAID supports hot insert/swap/removal, so a reboot is always needed regardless of the HBA/adapter used. correct. Link to comment
duderaid Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Okay. Bad assumption on my part. How about settings for AHCI or IDE on the AOC_SASLAP-MV8? running .15 firmware. I'm not seeing anything obvious on the card setup. Link to comment
Kaygee Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 If you cant see more than two drives on the new card try turning off int13 support otherwise you should be fine and dandy. Link to comment
madpoet Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Can the firmware be upgraded on them while in an unRaid server or do you have to do it in a different box? Link to comment
kizer Posted December 23, 2010 Author Share Posted December 23, 2010 Does the firmware need to be updated from what it shipped with? I only tested one drive to make sure it worked and I didn't have a connection problem. Until I'm ready I'm sure mine will sit in its silver wrapper and nice pretty white box. Link to comment
SSD Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 I do not believe you can update firmware with disks plugged into an addin card. If I remember right it has to be either on sata0 or sata1 port. May even have to be in IDE mode. I think it tells you to disconnect all other drives but I didn't and had no problems. Link to comment
joshpond Posted December 23, 2010 Share Posted December 23, 2010 Can the firmware be upgraded on them while in an unRaid server or do you have to do it in a different box? You have to update the firmware from a DOS boot disk so you can unplug the unRAID flash (when off obviously), plug in a DOS boot disk and flash. See My post for downgrading, upgrading the firmware should be the same. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=9488.msg91984#msg91984 I unplugged the SAS cables from mine, but that was just to be on the safe side. Does the firmware need to be updated from what it shipped with? I only tested one drive to make sure it worked and I didn't have a connection problem. Until I'm ready I'm sure mine will sit in its silver wrapper and nice pretty white box. I'm running mine with the .15 firmware and it runs fine so far so you don't need to upgrade but there are a few changes to the firmware as listed in the above post. The .21 firmware was noted to be larger than the .15 firmware so was causing my mobo combo to freeze on bootup as there wasn't enough option ROM. Josh Link to comment
duderaid Posted December 24, 2010 Share Posted December 24, 2010 I do not believe unRAID supports hot insert/swap/removal, so a reboot is always needed regardless of the HBA/adapter used. correct. I was thinking about this. Unraid aside, Linux should support hot OIR of a harddrive. I can understand about not supporting swapping a drive that is active in an array, but I would think that I should be able to add a disk, to the system not to the array, without a reboot. Link to comment
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