MontyP

drashna, I changed from a GigaByte GA-K8NF-9 motherboard with three Sil3114 SATA-PCI cards to a Gigabyte GA-F2A85X-D3H motherboard with a Sil3132 2 port SATA-PCIe card and a nameless generic 4 port SATA-PCIe card which I think is a based on a Marvell 88SE9230 controller (unfortunately it's got a cooler glued onto top of it!) for a total of 14 SATA ports.

Alex, Sorry about the delay getting back to you, the system with the Sil3114 cards died and I ended up replacing the motherboard and SATA cards with PCIe SATA cards which solved the duplicated disk serial number problem of the Sil3114 cards. PS The firmware on the Sil3114 cards was version 5.5 running under Server 2012 patched up to date with standard Microsoft drivers.

1/ My mistake; - The system has three Sil3114 SATA cards each of is displaying wrong serial numbers. (ie each card is reporting the same serial number for each of the four drives connected to it but the serial number shown is different from card to card). The PnP info from cards the is: Ven 1095, Dev 3114, SubSys 3114 & Rev 02. 2/ You're right! The machine name is showing in the body of each email. However, can drive idenitifcation info be added to the notifications?

Hi, My first post here. I'm quite impressed with DrivePool & Scanner functionality (especially when compared to Storage Spaces!) 1/ I'm seeing this serial number duplication problem on a system with three Sil3132 SATA cards; - each card appears to just grab its; first drive's serial number. I'm using DrivePool 2.0.0.420 & Scanner 2.4.0.2928. Should the fix mentioned in earler posts also handle this (3132) card? 2/ EMail notification suggestion; - Could you add description as to which machine is sending the email (eg sender name) and also, include serial number (or other unique drive identifier)? 3/ Question, The appearance and behaviour of the DrivePool & SCanner GUIs is quite neat/slick. What software is used for these apps? Cheers, Pete