After finally giving up on the MSI 790FX-GD70 motherboard trying to get it to work with OpenFiler 2.3 I decided to utilize my old TYAN TomCat S2865G2NR.

Good news?

Well the board see the areca RAID controller as just that, I was affriad plugging it into the "graphics" port as labled by the instructions that it wouldn't recognize another style of card.

Bad news?

I some how huffed the board in the process of moving it around so much in the system swap =/ So I had to order a replacement TYAN TomCat S2865G2NR (for a darn $120...)

Sad being that it's an older board.

It should arrive in the next couple of days and begin the build... again. This thing has fought me EVERY step of the way.