I'm currently in the process of investigating ZFS over hardware RAID via my Areca 1882 card. My current motherboard has a limited number of PCIe slots so I'll need to use my existing Chenbro 36 port expander for the 22 hard drives in my chassis.
System spec (stripped down slightly for testing):
Initial boot up looked very promising with the Areca detecting all 12 of the test hard drives via the expander. Then it came to booting Ubuntu and I'm getting a bunch of errors which I can't really make much sense of, these errors only occur when I have drives connected via the expander so I'm assuming there might be some sort of config/compatibility issue.
These errors occur in normal boot of Ubuntu, safe mode and attempting doing a clean install.
Image 1: http://i.imgur.com/1Lk7Lbb.png
Image 2: http://i.imgur.com/doPERQq.jpg
Image 3: http://i.imgur.com/NTr7TvD.jpg
Image 4: http://i.imgur.com/hz0zIFk.jpg
Image 5: http://i.imgur.com/m6U2b5V.png
Image 6: http://i.imgur.com/weNzw3W.jpg
Image 7: http://i.imgur.com/ksBFeep.png
Anyone got any tips? Might have to see if I still have my IBM M1015 card as theres forum posts of that working with this expander.
Oh and any tips on how I can extract this boot message as plain text instead of taking photos would be great!
System spec (stripped down slightly for testing):
- Supermicro X9SCM-F
- Xeon E3-1245
- 2x8GB Kingston DDR3
- OCZ Agility 3 60GB boot drive connected via onboard SATA
- Areca 1320-8i
- Chenbro CK23601 expander
- 12x Hitachi 7K3000 3TB
Initial boot up looked very promising with the Areca detecting all 12 of the test hard drives via the expander. Then it came to booting Ubuntu and I'm getting a bunch of errors which I can't really make much sense of, these errors only occur when I have drives connected via the expander so I'm assuming there might be some sort of config/compatibility issue.
These errors occur in normal boot of Ubuntu, safe mode and attempting doing a clean install.
Image 1: http://i.imgur.com/1Lk7Lbb.png
Image 2: http://i.imgur.com/doPERQq.jpg
Image 3: http://i.imgur.com/NTr7TvD.jpg
Image 4: http://i.imgur.com/hz0zIFk.jpg
Image 5: http://i.imgur.com/m6U2b5V.png
Image 6: http://i.imgur.com/weNzw3W.jpg
Image 7: http://i.imgur.com/ksBFeep.png
Anyone got any tips? Might have to see if I still have my IBM M1015 card as theres forum posts of that working with this expander.
Oh and any tips on how I can extract this boot message as plain text instead of taking photos would be great!