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How far in the boot process do you get before it hangs? I had a similar problem, but I discovered it was because I was trying to boot from a PATA device, which OMV (actually Debian) doesn't support. Also, check your CMOS battery; it's old enough that it might need replacement.

Actually if you read back a few messages, you'll see I actually had 16 drives connected at one point, but I too found another use for my 8 drive array (not a Sandigital, although I do have one of those as well). I think the max is 20 (16 external, 4 internal) without resorting to USB.

No, USB 2.0 is way too slow. I have a single 4 drive eSATA array, a G-SPEED eS (without the SATA card), hooked to one of the eSATA ports. The SS4200 eSATA ports support SATA hubs (which is rare for motherboard SATA ports, but I had seen it mentioned in a previous discussion on the SS-4200). I...

I redid mine using mdadm on an 8 drive array (4 internal, 4 external). Performance is better than with ZFS Raid: root@omv-ss4200:/srv/dev-disk-by-label-data1# dd if=/dev/zero of=./test2.img bs=1G count=5 oflag=dsync 5+0 records in 5+0 records out 5368709120 bytes (5.4 GB, 5.0 GiB) copied...

Good news. I got OpenMediaVault running on my SS4200. System is as follows: 2GB of RAM CPU upgrade to Core 2 duo. OS installed on external SSD connected to USB port 4 internal + 12 external 2TB drives (connected via eSATA ports). The speed's not fantastic but I think it's better than stock...

One other thing I just remembered (I'm noting it here so I don't forget it) is that modern Linuxes don't support booting from IDE (PATA). I had originally purchased an IDE to SATA converter to hook up a SATA SSD to the DOM connector, but that doesn't work, even though the BIOS sees the drive...

Using a flex PCI-e riser, you can place drives 3&4 in the correct position over the CPU, which gives enough ventilation during the installation.

It's technically headless but it's easy enough to hook up a cheap video card, as we've discussed earlier in this thread.

Hmm, I don't have anything that small...what I may try is building the install on an SSD on a different computer, and then installing that SSD into the SS-4200. OpenMediaVault can be found here.

Hey folks, I hope some of you are still watching this thread. I just tried installing Open Media Vault (on Debian Linux) on my SS-4200, upgraded to 2GB RAM. Discovered that it won't boot from USB if there are any partitions, even unpopulated, on any IDE or SATA disks connected to the...

Yeah, I suspect it's the battery. Thanks.

That's possible, but we'll probably never know. To elliot.trance2, regarding booting from USB, how did you force this? With my second SS4200, I was only get it to boot from USB via a change to a BIOS setting, and it was lost every time the power was shut off.

This is unlikely to be the case. The SS4200 motherboard includes 4 internal SATA II interfaces and 2 external (which I assume are also SATA II). They'd be unlikely to have included anything but the latest PATA revision since PATA was already on its way out when this was made.

Up until today I didn't have any outgoing traffic blocked on my firewall, but I've just disallowed in/out internet connections to the SS4200. So far nothing.

Hi folks, just wanted to keep this thread alive. I have two of these SS4200s, one an Intel. Got it when it first went out of production, set it up with 4x2TB drives and it worked but kept crashing every night. Opened up a support ticket with Intel but they never figured it out and because the...