yeah_mike

Just wanted to post this in case it helps someone in the future. I got a QNAP TL-D400s to expand my storage. I'm using the included QXP-400eS-A1164 card and cable. It seems to be working well. Several people have mentioned that the 8 bay version (TL-D800s) has problems detecting all installed drives when cold booting, necessitating removing and re-inserting any undetected drives (see here and here). With my 4-bay version, with all 4 bays loaded, a cold boot seems to work fine, with all drives being detected. Granted, I've only tried cold booting once. If for whatever reason I have to cold boot again, I'll report back with either a positive or negative results. Edit: Cold boot twice in total thus far. No issues. All 4 drives detected.

I saw something on the unraid subreddit but wanted to get people's opinion here as the most upvoted comments on Reddit are often completely wrong information posted by people who don't know what they're talking about. https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/s/RPOzUMbCQC The reply posted by user diad6sucks here https://www.reddit.com/r/unRAID/s/rnz6vulbiA seems to indicate that in a dual parity setup you shouldn't use the array while it's being rebuilt, otherwise you risk losing data. That's wrong, isn't it? I thought the whole point of parity is that the array can remain up during the 24-36h it takes to rebuild a failed disk.

Turns out I had the HBA plugged into the x1 slot. The Asus motherboard I'm using had poor documentation. Nowhere in the manual nor the board itself did it state which PCIE slot was x4 mode and which was x1 mode. I had to take a closer look at the pins to determine I had plugged it into the wrong one.

Here is the output: 05:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03) Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions HBA Ctrl SAS 6G 0/1 [D2607] Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 19 IOMMU group: 15 Region 0: I/O ports at 3000 [disabled] [size=256] Region 1: Memory at 86300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Region 3: Memory at 86280000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K] Expansion ROM at 85e00000 [disabled] [size=512K] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 NoSoftRst+ PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- Capabilities: [68] Express (v2) Endpoint, MSI 00 DevCap: MaxPayload 4096 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us ExtTag+ AttnBtn- AttnInd- PwrInd- RBE+ FLReset+ SlotPowerLimit 0W DevCtl: CorrErr+ NonFatalErr+ FatalErr+ UnsupReq+ RlxdOrd+ ExtTag+ PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+ FLReset- MaxPayload 256 bytes, MaxReadReq 512 bytes DevSta: CorrErr+ NonFatalErr- FatalErr- UnsupReq+ AuxPwr- TransPend- LnkCap: Port #0, Speed 5GT/s, Width x8, ASPM L0s, Exit Latency L0s <64ns ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot- ASPMOptComp- LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; RCB 64 bytes, Disabled- CommClk+ ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt- LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s, Width x1 (downgraded) TrErr- Train- SlotClk+ DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt- DevCap2: Completion Timeout: Range BC, TimeoutDis+ NROPrPrP- LTR- 10BitTagComp- 10BitTagReq- OBFF Not Supported, ExtFmt- EETLPPrefix- EmergencyPowerReduction Not Supported, EmergencyPowerReductionInit- FRS- TPHComp- ExtTPHComp- AtomicOpsCap: 32bit- 64bit- 128bitCAS- DevCtl2: Completion Timeout: 50us to 50ms, TimeoutDis- LTR- 10BitTagReq- OBFF Disabled, AtomicOpsCtl: ReqEn- LnkCtl2: Target Link Speed: 5GT/s, EnterCompliance- SpeedDis- Transmit Margin: Normal Operating Range, EnterModifiedCompliance- ComplianceSOS- Compliance Preset/De-emphasis: -6dB de-emphasis, 0dB preshoot LnkSta2: Current De-emphasis Level: -6dB, EqualizationComplete- EqualizationPhase1- EqualizationPhase2- EqualizationPhase3- LinkEqualizationRequest- Retimer- 2Retimers- CrosslinkRes: unsupported Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: No such device Not readable Capabilities: [a8] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000 Capabilities: [c0] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=15 Masked- Vector table: BAR=1 offset=00002000 PBA: BAR=1 offset=00003800 Capabilities: [100 v1] Advanced Error Reporting UESta: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UEMsk: DLP- SDES- TLP- FCP- CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF- MalfTLP- ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- UESvrt: DLP+ SDES+ TLP- FCP+ CmpltTO- CmpltAbrt- UnxCmplt- RxOF+ MalfTLP+ ECRC- UnsupReq- ACSViol- CESta: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr- CEMsk: RxErr- BadTLP- BadDLLP- Rollover- Timeout- AdvNonFatalErr+ AERCap: First Error Pointer: 00, ECRCGenCap+ ECRCGenEn- ECRCChkCap+ ECRCChkEn- MultHdrRecCap- MultHdrRecEn- TLPPfxPres- HdrLogCap- HeaderLog: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Capabilities: [138 v1] Power Budgeting <?> Capabilities: [150 v1] Single Root I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) IOVCap: Migration- 10BitTagReq- Interrupt Message Number: 000 IOVCtl: Enable- Migration- Interrupt- MSE- ARIHierarchy+ 10BitTagReq- IOVSta: Migration- Initial VFs: 16, Total VFs: 16, Number of VFs: 0, Function Dependency Link: 00 VF offset: 1, stride: 1, Device ID: 0072 Supported Page Size: 00000553, System Page Size: 00000001 Region 0: Memory at 00000000862c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) Region 2: Memory at 0000000085e80000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) VF Migration: offset: 00000000, BIR: 0 Capabilities: [190 v1] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI) ARICap: MFVC- ACS-, Next Function: 0 ARICtl: MFVC- ACS-, Function Group: 0 Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas Kernel modules: mpt3sas I noticed the following line: LnkSta: Speed 5GT/s, Width x1 (downgraded) Any idea if this would be a BIOS setting I need to change? Or hardware problem?

I have a LSI 9201-8i HBA in IT mode bought from Amazon. According to the description, this is a PCIE gen 2.0 card. I have it plugged into a PCIE slot in x4 mode. This is the speed I'm getting during parity rebuild: Are these the expected speeds for this card in PCIE 2.0 x4 mode? Or does it look like it's running in x1 mode for some reason?

Hello hispeedsurfer, How did you get the qnap-ec plugin working? Did you have to compile it yourself, or is it available for download?