CURRENT Specs:
MB: P8Z77WS Asus
CPU: Intel i3 ivy bridge
Memory: 16GB G.Skill DDR3
Hard drive setup:
-LSI SAS 9207-8i
--6 256GB Samsung SSD (Raid5)
-On board sata ports
--5 3TB Seagate (Raid5)
Boot OS is on a 8GB AData USB flash drive.
Now I had this system working on a P8Z77-VLK Asus motherboard perfectly. Except that motherboard was defective as it had a bad SATA port that I needed, so instead of waiting 2+ weeks for RMA, I decided to buy bigger and better and got the WS board. Now for some reason it has been total hell to install OMV, and when I finally did get it installed, when I go to configure a raid5 array thru the SSD drives, after waiting a minute or two, the error "mpt2sas0: diag reset: FAILED" appears 9 times on the console screen of the OMV and I get "error has occurred" on the web interface. Of course when this happens the whole system pretty much crashes without saying so.
I have updated the bios and firmware (IT version) to the newest. That did not help. I turned off all the usb ports in this motherboard except the two I needed to run my keyboard and usb flash drive and that did not help. I turned off boot support in the LSI card.
I am stuck guys It doesn't help that I barely remember how to use linux these days either.