NASLite Network Attached Storage

Can i use current motherboard with onboard sata say 4 sata and 4 ide devices and maybe add raid card for additional devices...any particular motherboard that can be use . Has anybody use current MB?

You don't state which motherboard you are initially talking about. However, NASLite-2 should function with just about any motherboard out there. My Gigabyte Skt939 board supports USB boot and I'm using NASLite-2 USB v2.04 successfully. I have added an IDE RAID card (LSI MegaRAID i4) which works perfectly (up to 8 physical drives / 50 logical drives). I also have an HP branded Adaptec 2610SA which I hope will be compatible at the next update (new kernel should update associated driver), so that should work as well.

Just make sure that your power supply is powerful enough for 24/7 operations (if that's the way you intend to operate your NAS).

Thanks for the info . Its helpful and speaking of motherboard bootiing to usb , any other motherboards that you can recommend that's affordable that boots to USB.

What can I do if I erase the BIOS in the motherboard? What happens if we were to erase the BIOS by shorting the jumper switch on the motherboard? Will the motherboard have no BIOS now?
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Why do you want to get rid of the BIOS?

PieterB

by shorting the jumper you should simply set the bios back to default - with no bios you dont have a working motherboard

Florila.

You can NOT erase the BIOS with a jumper. The jumper is used to set the BIOS to the initial default values. Its only use is if (and only if) the computer doesn't boot and you cannot access the BIOS page. You take out the battery then use the jumper to delete THE SETTINGS of the BIOS.

The only way to delete/erase the BIOS is to cut the power while you are updating the BIOS. And if you do that and **ck-up the BIOS, you can throw away the motherboard

That's a question I always wanted to ask:

Will replacing the battery destroy the BIOS settings, or will this action do nothing, except for maybe time and date?

PieterB

i think it would loose all the settings - not sure - certainly on a Dell i was having problems with the cure was to remove the battery not just revert to default

one way to know - remove the battery

NO! That's why I'm asking. The BIOS of this very old ASUS motherboard is very, very complicated in its settings, and I think I could really ruin functionality.

PieterB

Removing the battery will reset the BIOS to defaults.

You could remove the battery while the computer was on and replace the battery that way but it is risky to say the least. I have done it in cases where I needed to save the BIOS settings and didn't want to jot down every setting in BIOS.

You would reset the BIOS if the box failed to function correctly for some reason and nothing fixed it, not even a rebuild of the software. I have had this happen from time to time, cosmic rays can flip a random bit here or there now and then in the static RAM of the RTC chip where the BIOS settings are stored.

Mike

What's the risky part? The battery should not play an active role while the computer is on, is it? I am worried that that battery -it was installed around 2002- is about to die, and will cause problems then.

PieterB

The risk is in either shorting the battery connections or having the battery fall onto a chip in close proximity to the battery and shorting it out. This could in theory, or practice for that matter, blow your motherboard. go for it but remember that if it goes wrong, you have been warned by me about it.

Mike

Yes, daddy

Pieter.

You have about 30 sec (computer off) between the time you take off the battery and the loss of the BIOS settings (that is the case in most of the MBs... but not all )