I don't see the Mellanox supporting it either, if this is the one: http://www.mellanox.com/page/products_dyn?product_family=63
The Intel X540-T1/-T2 doesn't have them either. I wound up modifying the X540-T1 (new connector on back lower right, near bracket):Usually gaming/consumer motherboards don't have the LAN status headers. They are usually on higher end standalone NIC cards though. I'm surprised the Mellanox doesn't have it.
Thanks I am not too worried about Nic lights, if I ever update past my mellanox then I can use these lights...The Intel X540-T1/-T2 doesn't have them either. I wound up modifying the X540-T1 (new connector on back lower right, near bracket):
And creating a custom interposer cable for the Supermicro chassis which extends the NIC 1 activity LED to the card:
The Supermicro case assumes you are using a Supermicro motherboard, so it doesn't split the motherboard connector out into different sets of pins. If it did, then I would have just needed an extension cable and not a whole interposer cable.
You could use these with lepa which has enough Molex i even doubled up just to be sure , or another PSU with a few of these -What PSU are you using to drive all those drives? I am looking for a PSU with plenty of molex connectors for the 6 back planes (RPC-4224) and case fans.
I heard some rumblings about them while i was researching and building. Well I guess the hunt is on..... Anyone else have any ideas on a place to find a backplane?Last I knew Norco had them on their website. But good luck getting ahold of them. I have (4) RPC-2212's that I bought new and got Norco to replace a single a plane then they stopped responding to email and voicemails. They are a pathetically crappy company with horrible product support. I have since got wise and switched all my gear to Supermicro.
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Whoa your on to something, I will email them and will see if they respond?Don't they all still use the same backplane? My old 1204's, 2208's and 2212's all basically had the same ones, just more of them.
Assuming that's still the case, wouldn't the 4220 and 4224 share the same backplanes? Unless they recently changed their design.
4224 RPC-4224 SAS or SATA to MINI-SAS storage enclosure backplane BP-001
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Sorry to hear that but it's what I expected. Their support is some of the worst I have ever seen.No email just like Cyberskull pointed out - going day 4
Does any know if the 4220 and 4224 share the same backplanes?
Thanks AJ
You referring to the activity light on the actual drive sled or the HDD activity light beside the power button/LED?Hi cyber I bought my Norco used and did some tweaking, mid 120 fan wall with noctura fans on the wall and rear. it's actually really quite. There are a couple of things that I wished for the activity lights really don't flicker like other videos I've seen when there getting access, not sure if it's just unraid OS, maybe I'll flip the LED wires and also take out the bottom backplane and swap it out with the one with the light out. Then I can get a measurement to see if your backplane will work?
Aj
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You referring to the activity light on the actual drive sled or the HDD activity light beside the power button/LED? On the Drive Sled - I see Green and Blue and it looks like Green is brighter on all sleds and the Blue is probably activity... They just dont flash like I have seen on videos on the Net with other people.
I only ask cause I have 6 unRAID Pro servers in Supermicro 846 chassis. So I know the HDD activity light beside the power LED won't blink to my knowledge as that's looking for activity on the motherboard SATA ports. But the drive sled LED should be blinking for activity. When I was trying to build new servers in my Norco 2212 chassis (before I switched to SM) the LED's on the drive sled's lit up. Constant blue for power and the green would flicker for activity.
Now on my SM chassis Red is the HDD failure so glad I never see those! And blue is for activity so when accessing a disk the blue LED does in fact blink. It's actually more of a constant than it is blinking. So unless your a backplanes are wired differently, as in a old model, that doesn't blink, they defiantly should.
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So I switched out the backplane and i am back in business on the light situation - I left out the one backplane (with the 1 light out) to take pictures I cannot see anything unusual with it. see the pix and let me know if you have any backplanes like mine?
PS: after confirming the lights and Unraid booted fine, I shucked a 5tb external and replaced my oldest drive - Gotta love Unraid I am at 44tb total - sorry for the bold .....