Recent content by Neme

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...