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Wow wow. I am humbled by my lack of figuring this one out. I spent several weeks with the new server setup out on my workbench poking around trying many things, buying multiple adapter cards, nothing seemed to work. I posted here as a last resort to come up with an idea as to the problem, and JorgeB you led me on the path to get me going. It was indeed a bad drive. It never crossed my mind to try a new HD. I added a second drive and it's also being recognized by the nvme to sata adapter card. After I get my data cables plugged back in I'm going to transfer the drives from my other Unraid server into this new case. Thank you for your time!

Yes, that's the adapter in the build right now, although the Amazon link is for the first card I tried (6 ports) from Newegg.

Okay, I started out with a different nvme to sata adapter (6 port) and then when it didn't work I started throwing money at the project trying to get something to work. It's interesting that Unraid has detected the nvme to sata adapter, because when you go to to the MAIN screen in Unraid to assign drives, no drives show up unless I plug a drive into the only native sata port. The nvme to sata adapter that you say Unraid has detected is the one in the build right now. Here's the link to the first nvme to sata adapter card I tried. https://www.newegg.com/orico-pm2ts6-bp-pci-express-to-m-2-card/p/17Z-0003-00027

Thank you for taking the time to look. towertest-diagnostics-20240925-0546.zip

This is the adapter. SilverStone Technology ECS07 5-Port SATA Gen3 6Gbps Non-RAID M.2 PCIe Storage Expansion Card, SST-ECS07 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TV1QRG

I'm a basic Unraid user. I've had a Unraid server for the past two years to do simple tasks like file storage, pi-hole server, plex server. The server is in a 15 year old Dell XPS workstation and has served its purpose well. But it's big and heavy and blows a lot of heat out the back. I only turn it on when I need to use it due to the heat and energy factors. I wanted to transfer the Unraid server to a small form factor case and came across an article in MaximumPC magazine about building a NAS server (using the Debian Server OS). I liked the hardware build which used an ASUS Prime N1001 MB which uses passive cooling. The setup called for a Jonsbo N2 Mini-ITX case. To address the issue of the MB having only 1 SATA port the solution was to use a nvme to sata adapter. I bought all the components and set about to get it all running. The computer boots to a trial Unraid OS thumb drive. The only sata port on the MB works fine with a hard drive plugged in and shows up in the Unraid screen and in the BIOS setup. But... and the reason for this post to seek help and a solution to my problem is.. The Unraid OS/motherboard so far hasn't recognized the 6 port nvme to sata adapter card. It says plug and play in the listing. Has anyone else had success with one of these cards? Is there a setting in the BIOS to change to allow the adapter to work? I've also tried a PCIE to sata adapter with the same non results. While searching for help I've come across some mini-itx boards that look pretty cool. They use active cooling, but have 8 sata ports built in, 3 nvme ports, and other cool things to me.

So I've been a faithful user of Synology Nas's for many years, I eyed unraid several years ago and finally got around to setting up a server last night. It's been purring away for the last 24 hours, and I've been able to set up a share and map a drive letter to it. With the Synology units I found it cumbersome to use their "assistant" program to map drives. I switched to using the DOS command "NET USE" and it works great for me. My question is, is there a better way to map drives, or keep doing what I'm doing if it works for me?