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After getting frustrated at not finding anything suitable and/or the right price. I went all DIY on the problem and made my own :) http://imgur.com/a/XCVbf#4 http://imgur.com/a/XCVbf#9

All of the power cables (except motherboard power) were hand made using the following: 18AWG stranded cable Mod/smart 90° 4pin Molex plug (with relevant inline or end caps) Mod/smart 90° 16Pin SATA plug (with relevant inline or end caps) 6 Pin Male VGA Power Connector (to fit modular PSU) 8MM...

Having spent AGES looking for a retail solution and deciding all 2-3 i could find were either really rubbish or crazy expensive, I crafted my own from some aluminium (angle and strip) bought from B&Q, some nuts/bolts from ebay and some basic hand tools :) Total cost was probably about £8-10...

Photo's added to my post above... http://hardforum.com/showpost.php?p=1040063855&postcount=2068 Enjoy :)

Dont believe so, only really encuontered 2 issues during the build, though I was researching for weeks before i started so knew about these ahead of time: 1. With 3x M1015 passed through to the VM the system would get stuck at boot with the following errors: run_interrupt_driven_hooks...

Total Storage: 36.75TB System 1: 36.75TB Case: X-Case RM424 Pro PSU: Seasonic X-Series 650w MB: Supermicro X9SCM-iiF CPU: Xeon E3-1230 V2 HSF: Noctua NH-U9B SE2 (2x Noctua NF-B9-PWM) RAM: 32GB Kingston ValueRAM PC3-12800 ECC (4x 8GB KVR16E11/8) GPU: Matrox G200 (Onboard) HBA: 3x IBM...

Ooh, lots or progress since I last checked in, good work :) Sadly no idea on drive order against PCIe slot, you will also have to take into account the layout of the ports on your case backplane, if you want a logical physical layout as well, a bit or trial and error might have to be employed...

Tell her it's all part of a cunning plan to take over the world... One cardboard box at a time!! :D

Bummer, as you say I suspect something more basic than card flashing issues may be at work here, given your problems running basic diagnostic tools like memtest86. I assume you have tried running memtest with only basic hardware installed (e.g. CPU RAM etc no HBAs)? I know the supermicro boards...

Just as a quick thing to try: MegaRec -adpList This should list all the adaptors it can see in the system and their IDs I believe, cant down my server to try it at the moment. Really off for sleeps now... good luck, i'll catch up in the morning.

Hmm, bummer. Didn't get any such issues when i did mine, have searched around a bit and the only usefull reference I can find is here: http://forums.laptopvideo2go.com/topic/29166-sas2108-lsi-9260-based-firmware-files/ Post #19 seems to indicate not all DOS USB boot images are created...

No problem, learning this stuff as I go myself, just been reading many many forums/blogs/guides :) That is correct, no OptionROM will mean no booting from any drives on that card.

Have had a quick "play" with some SAS connectors here at work and I think I can see the issue you might be having getting your plugs out. If you try and pull the plug out, even a little before pushing the tab down the 2 little metal hooks can easily get hung up in their holes, if they do...

Odd about the cables, they certainly should come out, i've never had any issues with removing SAS cables from any cards, should just push on the tab and slide out with minimal force. If you look closely there will be 2 small holes on the metal cable surround on the card, 2 small hooks on the...

Dont remember exact times, but you are looking at less than a minute (probably less than 30s) for each of the 2-3 steps that write to the M1015. There are a few steps to do for each card but I found it really quite easy, once you pick the relevant parts out of that forum guide there are only...

All good fun indeed, got some of my kit now too, set up in a temp spare case so i can test hardware and have a play around. Essentially just missing the proper case and bulk storage drives. You might have seen it already (or something similar) but here is a really good guide to flashing the...

Glad you got it sorted out :) Slowly putting together a home ESXi/storage server myself, buying a few bits here and there as funds allow, aiming for the following: Norco 4224 (maybe Xcase RM 424 Pro) Supermicro X9SCM-iif Xeon E3 1230 v2 4x 8GB ECC RAM (probably samsung M391B1G73BH0-CK0)...

Just a heads up, the Ebay item you have linked to is a RAID 5 feature key for an IBM M1015 and not the card itself. These are a small module that plugs onto an M1015 to activate the ability to use RAID 5 on these cards.

Thanks for the input, will probably throw 1230v2 into the mix (good catch), went for the pro/1000 as it is a card i already have in hand, also it is supported natively on FreeBSD 8.1 (pfsense) I have read of people having issues getting the I350 cards to work. Have heard good things about...

Looking at putting together a home ESXi/storage server soon, so far looking at the following: Norco 4224 (maybe Xcase RM 424 Pro) Supermicro X9scm-iif Xeon E3 1220 v2 4x 8GB ECC RAM (probably samsung M391B1G73BH0-CK0) Crucial M4 256GB (Boot and VM OS drive) 3x IBM M1015 Flashed to latest...

Looking to put together a large flexraid (or similar) storage server, mainly for bluray storage and playback via gigbit network to 1-2 streaming players (popcorn hour/PC) Parts I have looked into and decided on so far (unless someone can give me some other good ideas): Norco RPC-4224 3x...

It is a RAID card untill you flash it to LSI9211-IT (all the details are in the article about the different modes you can flash it into). Regarding costs there are certainly cheaper HBA only cards out there, though with many of them i have found mixed reports on performance and/or issues...

From my research I believe the IBM M1015 flashed to be an LSI9211-IT is about the best option: http://www.servethehome.com/ibm-serveraid-m1015-part-4/ Though I haven't done this yet myself, and I have read the M1015 can be a bit picky about motherboards when it comes to being able to flash it...

We use Checkpoint FDE on our work laptops, good central management, supports single signon and also remote challenge/response style password resets, which comes in handy for those users that forget passwords every 5 mins (especially as these also tend to be the execs that fly all over the...

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Can't fault Areca on customer support on this one then :)

What he said, Don't try to be too clever with slipstream CDs, just go for the minimum you need to get running otherwise you usually just end up tripping yourself up somewhere along the build. I usually just dump on the RAID drivers and maybe a few of the setup options so i can run a semi...

Ahh, but this is a USB Floppy drive, and it works fine, windows just sees it as a normal FDD :) Perfect for getting OS build drivers on (often for first builds before I have a chance to build a slipstream CD). And saves having a damn floppy drive in all my systems for silly things like installs...

I bought a USB floppy drive years ago for dealing with installs on systems with no floppy drive, one £10 drive and all OS setup driver issues sorted. Or as MrGuvernment said, use nlite to create a custom install CD complete with any drivers you care to add (http://www.nliteos.com/).

I presume even with bypassing the HP systems check (leftCTRL+Enter) you still need one of the supported HP raid boards? (P212, P410, P411, or P712) to flash the expander?