PhilBarker

This is the exact one I got. I think I’ve linked it before somewhere but maybe not here. http://MZHOU PCIe SATA Card 6 Ports 1X PCIe SATA Expansion Card - 6 Gbps SATA 3.0 PCI Express Card - SATA Controller Expansion Card with 6 SATA Cables and Low Profile Bracket (Chipset ASM1166) https://amzn.eu/d/epDumJc It’s gone up in price since I got it though 😔

That solved the master container. All child containers permanently show as needing update. I’ve set the warning to be ignored for now

I'm afraid to say I literally ordered cheap ASM1166 6 port card from amazon. It arrived. I plugged it in - all hard drives detected and worked fine.

They're not fakes - they're old 2nd hand units from stripped down servers in China In the case of "unopened new" they are likely spares kept on-site for server support that were never used. Check the other listings - genuine Dell ones, tons to choose from. They don't exactly hold a massive value because they were fitted to so many rack servers that are now decommissioned and stripped for parts. Like buying xeon CPU's for peanuts these days.

Also cost shouldn't be too much of an issue - you can get something like this if you have an x8 or x16 pci slot free LSI 9223 9200 9240-8i HBA FW:P20 9211-8i IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 2* SFF SATA For £33 which isn't much more than the cheap ASM cards on amazon

Yep, stick to 6 port for ASM1166 - I only use it because my only free PCI slot is a 1x slot so I can't really run a proper card. I'm planning in the future to ditch my A320 board for an X570 with 8 SATA ports when I can spare the money. That will mean I can use on-board sata for all my current disks, but expanding in the future I can go LSI instead of relying on the cheap ASM boards.

That's so weird I don't have that board I have a Gigabyte A320 But I ordered a card from Amazon and it had the Marvell 88SE9215 chip. It seemed to work but I hadn't read this thread to see the warning. Randomly it just seemed to power down and all disks connected to it vanished. They didn't get corrupted or anything they just disappeared and I had to reboot. I sent it back and got the ASM1166 6 port version (it's an MZHOU card I have) and it has been bulletproof ever since. Only issue I had was enabling power saving features but as said earlier after I upgraded the firmware it's worked perfectly with that too

Yes of course

Yeah it's easy to do just takes some piecing together of info scattered around I've added a quick guide to my docs site just really for future reference https://docs.phil-barker.com/posts/upgrading-ASM1166-firmware-for-unraid/

Cheap copy here, upgraded firmware with the Silverstone firmware, zero issues

The firmware is a lottery too I bought a card end of last year. The firmware was 4 years old. ASM1166 Since upgrading the firmware the speed has improved massively and it’s working fine with power management too

Just wanted to say a massive thank you for everything you do. I wanted to get sys temps monitored but couldn't because I have a gigabyte board with the IT8686E chip I tried searching everywhere and couldn't find anywhere to make it work with linux. I should learn to look at the plugins first! Works perfectly, thanks for all the great work!

I have nextcloud on my unraid - I use nextcloud AIO as I found it far faster and more stable than a manual install. Nextcloud AIO is a master container that spins up service containers (8 of them), it handles updates of the service containers itself and offers full backup through borgbackup. Unraid keeps showing ALL of the service containers as "update ready" although there isn't and this is managed by the master container anyway. I looked around to see if there's any way to exclude some containers from the update check as the noise from notifications becomes annoying but I couldn't find anything - did I miss an option? Thanks in advance

I'll stick ubuntu on a usbstick and try it - though I would expect the SATA controllers to have ASPM enabled, seeing as my PCIe sata expansion card has them enabled and the chipset sata controller has the exact same capabilities

With all due respect, I realise this is a busy forum and people probably ask the same questions over and over, but the only link in this thread is the one to recommended cards thread for a "Firmware Upgrade" - I read all 8 pages here and found no other information. I followed the link to the other thread, and read 8 pages in to that before I found some instructions - but as you say they mention a ROM from station drivers, and the ROM version was not the one mentioned here as a "fix" for the powertop tuning issue. Luzankia mentioned silverstone firmware so I was simply asking which one he had used as I'd prefer to use one that is a known fix than a random one from station drivers on an unrelated thread (it turned out they are the same but the rom naming doesn't match versions mentioned here). I appreciate everything everyone does here and unraid is a brilliant OS but it seems like a lot of times I ask questions the response is a stack exchange style "just read, this has been answered before". I think the community would greatly benefit from a wiki rather than relying on a forum where the answers are text buried 8 pages into a 10 page thread or at least we could change the firmware update link on the first page here to point directly to the relevant comment https://forums.unraid.net/topic/102010-recommended-controllers-for-unraid/?do=findComment&comment=1185707

I'm chasing some similar issues to this on my unraid setup 00:01.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir PCIe GPP Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <64us LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 00:02.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne PCIe GPP Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #2, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L1, Exit Latency L1 <64us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 00:08.1 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 00:08.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir Internal PCIe GPP Bridge to Bus (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL [Quadro P620] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <16us LnkCtl: ASPM L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <4us LnkCtl: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 02:00.0 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 43bc (rev 02) (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <2us, L1 unlimited LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 02:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 43b8 (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <2us, L1 unlimited LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 02:00.2 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device 43b3 (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x4, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <2us, L1 unlimited LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- CommClk+ 03:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #4, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s unlimited, L1 unlimited LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- CommClk- 03:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #5, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <2us, L1 unlimited LnkCtl: ASPM L0s Enabled; Disabled- CommClk+ 03:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #6, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <2us, L1 unlimited LnkCtl: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; Disabled- CommClk+ 03:07.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 300 Series Chipset PCIe Port (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) LnkCap: Port #7, Speed 5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <2us, L1 unlimited LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- CommClk+ 05:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192EE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <512ns, L1 <64us LnkCtl: ASPM L0s Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: No such device 06:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1166 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x2, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <4us, L1 <64us LnkCtl: ASPM L0s L1 Enabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 0c) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 2.5GT/s, Width x1, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s unlimited, L1 <64us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 08:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cezanne [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series] (rev c9) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 08:00.1 Audio device: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio Controller LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 08:00.2 Encryption controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) Platform Security Processor LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 08:00.3 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1 (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 08:00.4 USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Renoir/Cezanne USB 3.1 (prog-if 30 [XHCI]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 09:00.0 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 81) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ 09:00.1 SATA controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 81) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 8GT/s, Width x16, ASPM L0s L1, Exit Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ every device has L0s and L1 available but nearly all of the AMD chipset ones show as disabled Powertop only shows C1,C2,C3 - nothing else I've tried everything I could think of - forced ASPM on, set all the energy saving settings in bios My idling power usage of the server is around 90w 😢 System is a Gigabyte A320 with a Ryzen 5600G

Thanks, yeah got it sorted now. The silverstone firmware update is confusing as hell - the file names for the firmware don't match the actual version. Takes a lot of googling to work out which is newest etc.... I found the file on https://www.silverstonetek.com/en/product/info/expansion-cards/ECS06/ - for anyone else wanting to try this it's helpfully called "Fix compatibility issue and support Intel 600 series chipset motherboard" I shutdown unraid, moved my card to my Windows 11 gaming PC, ran the firmware update and it worked fine My card had come with 200529-000D-02 firmware version, flashed it to 211108-0000-00. I *think* mine was about 2 years old - it's hard to tell as I found an archive of loads of version numbers but there's no consistency in the version numbering at all. Either way seems to work fine, did the upgrade last night and all my disks are still there this morning. I'm going to write up a guide on my documentation site just in case anyone else is googling it like I was as there's not a lot of help out there EDIT: Oh I did also, same as you, see an increase in speed too when running a parity check!

Yes but no details of where to get the firmware or instructions of how to do it Sorted now

I definitely need to do this - my parity check on my ASM1166 sits at 30ish MB/s which I always thought was a bit slow and my server is eating power usage. I tried to find the files on the Silverstone site but all I found is a zip file with an update tool and a 11080000.ROM from 11/01/2022 Where did you find the 2011/2111 versions?

Would you mind giving some details on this? I've got a generic ASM1166 and I'd like to update the firmware but can't find a firmware file or tool on the silverstone site. Thanks

I should have read this when I was building my server - my own fault But DO NOT buy a Marvell 88SE9215 based card Was happily sat watching Plex and then the film died, said the file wasn't there Checked my server and 3 disks had all dissapeared including my parity disk!!! `usb 1-5: reset full-speed USB device number 4 using xhci_hcd` followed by a ton of errors in logs - looks like the card just randomly reset There's a lot of chatter over the years on linux forums about the same issue. Am returning it tomorrow and have a ASM1166 coming as a replacement - hopefully it's more solid

I found this thread through a link in the Rebuild-DNDC package It was using this script to convert the XML into a docker command to restart child containers linked to a parent container network. It stopped working at some point, wasn't finding volumes etc... I believe the XML format must have changed in the last year I've written a quick and dirty update to it which I thought I'd link here just in case anyone is still looking for this functionality https://github.com/Phil-Barker/rebuild-dndc/blob/master/Rebuild-DNDC/ParseDockerTemplate.sh

I ran into this same issue Wanted to replace my cache drives with bigger ones - followed the instructions but 20hrs later the mover has finished and still an absolute ton of symlinks in the docker volumes, and plex meta etc... that mover refuses to move Specified filename /mnt/cache/system/docker/btrfs/subvolumes/93c5b02f4d84e28555d19af3bda8b6c102c89e84a3ee17c755eea5a69a1fe527/usr/lib/git-core/git-clone does not exist. The logs are just full of this for every single symlink I attempted to run a manual rsync from the cache drives onto disk3 which is where mover was sending the files, did this for appdata and system shares rsync -avrth --progress --dry-run /mnt/cache/appdata/ /mnt/disk3/appdata/ But this doesn't work because the files the symlinks pointed to have now moved so they have no referent. This has left me in a complete mess! This seems to be a bug with mover since 2014.. hopefully it can get addressed as if the official procedure for upgrading cache drive(s) is followed you'd end up with completely broken docker containers

Firstly thanks for this plugin I'm new to unraid but the Docker UI is horrible. As I use traefik there's quite a few labels that I maintain, adding them one by one is awful. And containers like littlelink-server that use entirely variables, oh man, it would take me 20 minutes just to type them all in. I know the answer to this is probably no, but is there anyway to stop unraid flagging all the composer containers as requiring an update, as that's triggering notifications and makes the docker UI hard to follow when it says there are updates to install that there aren't. If not is there any alternative UI to creating docker containers in unraid that isn't an awful experience? EDIT: Found the patch UI setting which seems to take care of the docker UI. I found in common problem fixer you can ignore a specific warning, so have just set them to ignored. Not ideal but better than it was