[SOLVED] HP P410 RAID card in consumer hardware?

[shanedude02]

Hello all,
So I've decided to build a low spec home NAS thingy, and so far, it seems everything works except for one of the most important things.
The RAID card.

Specs are:
Mobo: P8H61I-I
CPU: Currently some i3 of some sort but getting a 2700K from a friend soon
RAM: 4GB

The RAID card I got is a P410, I've used these cards a few times in servers (yeah, surprising, what they're meant to be used in) without issues.
It refuses to initialise in the above setup.

I'm just wondering if its a case of the card looking for HP specific hardware or if I have a dud?
I've seen other posts of people using these cards successfully in consumer hardware, so assumed it should work.
I've seen somewhere, on 1 post, of my googling session, that when it initialises it looks for HP server hardware.

Thanks in advanced

 

[Newtonius]

I think there's compatibility issues. That raid card is meant for PCIe2 boards that support DDR2 memory. Yours is PCIe3 with DDR3 support. Also I don't even see what drives are compatible with the raid card on its main page. I would opt out of using that device and use a PCIe3 card instead. I setup my 4690k with an old LSI-8750i SAS raid controller and 8x 1TB WD Black 7200RPM. Works with no issues.

 

[TJ Hooker]

I think there's compatibility issues. That raid card is meant for PCIe2 boards that support DDR2 memory. Yours is PCIe3 with DDR3 support.

PCIe is backwards/forwards compatible. The DDR2 is used as storage cache by the RAID controller and is transparent to the host system, i.e. it has nothing to do with the DDR3 system memory.

 

[shanedude02]

If I cant get this card working or get another card that'll work cheaply enough, might just end up installing linux on a usb, and using the 4 sata ports on the motherboard to make a zfs pool.
I would've preferred hardware raid, but cant get much done with next to no budget 🙃

 

[popatim]

The 410 had compatibility issues with 6 & 7 series chipsets. You can look for firmware updates for the card, I don't know if they were ever resolved though.