NASLite Network Attached Storage

Guys,

I don't need raid configuration, but just need additional PATA ports (4+) to add more PATA drives.

Does V2.0 support Promise Ultra100 TX2 IDE card?

I am purchasing one of these cards in the next few days, i'll test it and post how I get on. I am sure this card is supported as its a widely used card.

Hi, in my NAS2 Box, the onboard promise TX133+ lite (mobo ASUS A7V333) is working very well , but for sure not In RAID mode....

I tried some other pci cards as controller "only " :

PCI VIA VT6421 2sata + 1 PATA : OK (but no smart info)
PCI CMD 649 2 pata (Silicon image) : OK
ONBOARD VIA 2sata VT8237R+ : OK (but no smart info)
PCI PROMISE Fastrack 66 PATA : not found.

It's 2am now and I just finished upgraded to V2 and added 3 HDs (my total HDs now is 7)

The Promise Ultra100 TX2 works like a charm. SMART is supported.

I used ECS P4M800PRO-M & Celeron D (bought @ Fry's for $50). The onboard S-ATA works but no SMART monitoring.

The "Unlock" feature can be friendlier. I almost give up (tried for like 30 minutes). Later found out that I typed "s" instead of "S" on the link

http://192.168.0.1/[b]S[/b]tatus/htm/Unlock.htm

The TX133+ is software raid driven, so it will not function in raid mode.

SMART info is not available for SATA drives, it's not implemented in Linux yet.

I am interested in this card as well. I am not sure though if NASlite V2 can see the drives attached to it at the ATA100 mode rather than ATA33 mode.(With old PII motherboards that is.)

Can someone confirm this please?

The Promise Ultra100 TX2 uses ATA100 if you require ATA133 you will need the Promise Ultra133 TX2 card.

That wasn't my question actually.

Let me rephrase.

Currently, on a PII motherboard with IDE ports, UATA100 and UATA133 drives are only accessed by Naslite+ 1.5 at the ATA33 speed.

With V2 and the support of a card like the Promise TX2 100, will the UATA100 drives be accessed at the full ATA100 speed or with they still be accessed at ATA33 speed.

I hope this is clearer.

Sorry, I think i need glasses, I though you wanted ata133 and not ata33
and was pointing out your would need a faster card. then the tx100.

The card was designed to allow a slower MB to support the faster Hard Drives. the HD's will perform at ata100.

Great! That's what I was looking for...

An order for a card or two is going in.....

I have a Promise Ultra133 TX2 on a 350mhz computer with 256 ram and im still gettting ata33 not 133.. naslite finds the disks but it wont set them to ata133 speed..

any suggestions ?

cdflame

I installed the promise Ultra100 recently as well. Where do you see if they are running ATA100 or ATA33. I have looked throught the logs but cant find this info.

In the syslog.

An entry such as below will indicate the operational mode.

user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx

Here is part of the syslog

Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 1.2 loaded
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:0a.0
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.debug kernel: eth0: Identified chip type is 'RTL8169s/8110s'.
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: eth0: RTL8169 at 0xcc800000, 00:09:5b:be:8f:b7, IRQ 10
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: eth0: Auto-negotiation Enabled.
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: eth0: 1000Mbps Full-duplex operation.
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:07.1
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: VP_IDE: VIA vt82c586b (rev 47) IDE UDMA33 controller on pci00:07.1
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: ttings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb408-0xb40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: PDC20268: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:08.0
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 5 for device 00:08.0
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: PDC20268: chipset revision 2
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: PDC20268: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: PDC20268: ROM enabled at 0xe8000000
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: ide2: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
Jul 18 16:21:17 user.info kernel: ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio

I guess this means the Promise card is running at ATA33 ? Any way to change this or is the MB the problem?
ALucas - Did you ever get this card working properly?

Also found this in the syslog

Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hde: ST3120026A, ATA DISK drive
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hdf: WDC WD1200BB-00CAA1, ATA DISK drive
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: blk: queue c04854a8, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: blk: queue c04855e4, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hdg: Maxtor 6L200P0, ATA DISK drive
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: blk: queue c04858fc, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: ide2 at 0xb800-0xb807,0xbc02 on irq 5
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: ide3 at 0xc000-0xc007,0xc402 on irq 5
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hde: attached ide-disk driver.
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hde: host protected area => 1
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.info kernel: hde: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14593/255/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hdf: attached ide-disk driver.
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hdf: host protected area => 1
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.info kernel: hdf: 234441648 sectors (120034 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=232581/16/63, UDMA(100)
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hdg: attached ide-disk driver.
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.warn kernel: hdg: host protected area => 1
Jul 18 19:20:21 user.info kernel: hdg: 398297088 sectors (203928 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=24792/255/63, UDMA(100)


It shows the drives are ATA100 but does this mean they are running at ATA100 or just that the drives report they are ATA100?

thanks JM