NASLite Network Attached Storage

I am running NASLite-2 USB on an Asus P4P800 with BIOS boot from USB. Started with a 3ware 7500-4 with four IDE drives configured as two Raid 1 mirrors. Worked good with everything recognized. Added an Adaptec 2610SA with 6 WD2500YD SATA drives configured as a Raid 5 on five drives with the sixth drive as a hot spare. The array initialized OK but I cannot see it in NASLite to format it.

The 2610SA was installed in the motherboard without any drives when I setup NASLite.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Tom

Try the card in a different PCI slot.

Mike

Thanks for the reply. I tried another PCI slot and removed the 3ware card. The array is still not seen by NASLight.

Is there anything besides initializing the array that I need to do in the Adaptec utility?

Thanks

Tom

I too have a problem with the 2610SA. I've built the array in the adaptec bios utility. Unfortunatly NASlite does not detect it at all. Not at boot or subsequently.

Confused

Any ideas as to why this may be happening to us?

Pete.

I installed Ubuntu and have the 2610SA array working OK so it is not a hardware problem.

It appears your problem is not because you are using two raid cards but because the 2610SA may not be supported. I took a quick look at the hardware guide and didn't see it listed.

It is listed under Hardware RAID Controller Devices - as the Dell CERC SATA 6 - and unless I'm mistaken, Adaptec never sold that card retail (which is probably why you don't find it under Adaptec) and I've only seen it remarketed by Dell.

It's essentially a six port version of the Adaptec 2410SA which is listed and available retail as well as through IBM (ServeRAID 7T) and I believe HP/Compaq & Gateway.

Also listed are it's bigger siblings - the 2810SA & 21610SA.