Expand disk count with PCI card


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Howdy fellow unraiders, just started using unraid (6.9.x) about a month ago and really enjoy the software. Just wondering what the best PCI-e card would be to increase disk count. I purchased two cards off Amazon as one of the questions on the item, asked if it worked in unraid and someone replied yes, but I can't seem to  get unraid to detect they disks attached to it.. bios can see the drives attached, windows can see them, I can even boot windows from the card, but unraid doesn't see drives. Looking in tools>system devices, I can see the PCI card.. below is the card(s) I boughtScreenshot_20210518-073812.thumb.jpg.ba1919ed6a836a5569f7bf3911d17858.jpg

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I don't know if it's just limitations of the cards or unraid, hoping someone could point me in some direction. Thought about just doing a SAS card with SAS to Sata cables, just not sure which to go with.

 

 

System specs below;

 

Asus ROG Strix X470-F Gaming

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core

16Gb Corsair Vengeance

4x4TB HDD

1x500GB HDD

1x240HB SSD

 

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Can't see the chipset but looks like an Asmedia card, it should be supported, you can post the diagnostics (tools -> diagnostics) to see if there are any clues on the problem.

Yeah Amazon into said ASM1061

 

I'll get the diagnostic uploaded

 

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There's a crash when detecting the device(s) on that controller, looks like some hardware compatibility issue, looks for a BIOS update or try a different PCIe slot.

 

May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference, address: 00000000000002f8
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: #PF: supervisor write access in kernel mode
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: #PF: error_code(0x0002) - not-present page
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: PGD 0 P4D 0
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP NOPTI
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 1630 Comm: scsi_eh_11 Not tainted 5.10.21-Unraid #1
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: Hardware name: System manufacturer System Product Name/ROG STRIX X470-F GAMING, BIOS 5406 11/13/2019
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RIP: 0010:__ata_qc_complete+0x7c/0xd4
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: Code: 65 50 fd 48 c7 85 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f6 45 28 04 74 16 8b 4d 5c b8 fe ff ff ff d3 c0 41 21 84 24 fc 02 00 00 75 14 eb 0c <41> c7 84 24 f8 02 00 00 fd fc fb fa ff 8b 30 20 00 00 f6 45 50 20
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffc90000583a00 EFLAGS: 00010046
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888105558000 RCX: 00000000fffbd60b
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RDX: 0000000002c00000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000082
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RBP: ffff888105559f30 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000000b
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: R10: 00000000fedbe000 R11: ffff888000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888105558000 R15: ffff888105559f30
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88840e800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: CR2: 00000000000002f8 CR3: 000000000200c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: Call Trace:
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_do_link_abort+0x5e/0x7c
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_exec_internal_sg+0x339/0x492
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_exec_internal+0x6b/0x8b
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_read_log_page+0xf3/0x144
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_log_supported+0x20/0x42
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_dev_configure+0x9ff/0x1360
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_eh_recover+0x1f7/0xf34
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? ata_phys_link_offline+0x51/0x51
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? sata_srst_pmp+0x27/0x27 [libahci]
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? ahci_do_hardreset+0x12d/0x12d [libahci]
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? ahci_stop_engine+0xc3/0xc3 [libahci]
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: sata_pmp_error_handler+0xf8/0x77c
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? update_cfs_rq_load_avg+0x14b/0x154
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? __cancel_work_timer+0x10a/0x15d
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xf/0x29
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? lock_timer_base+0x33/0x56
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ahci_error_handler+0x39/0x61 [libahci]
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_scsi_port_error_handler+0x21b/0x522
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ata_scsi_error+0x8c/0xb5
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: scsi_error_handler+0xa5/0x355
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0xd/0xe
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? scsi_eh_get_sense+0xf8/0xf8
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: kthread+0xe5/0xea
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x57/0x57
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: Modules linked in: edac_mce_amd kvm_amd kvm wmi_bmof mxm_wmi igb crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul crc32c_intel ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel crypto_simd cryptd i2c_piix4 i2c_algo_bit glue_helper i2c_core input_leds led_class rapl k10temp wmi ccp ahci libahci button acpi_cpufreq
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: CR2: 00000000000002f8
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: ---[ end trace fbd658f20dd0c4e3 ]---
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RIP: 0010:__ata_qc_complete+0x7c/0xd4
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: Code: 65 50 fd 48 c7 85 a0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f6 45 28 04 74 16 8b 4d 5c b8 fe ff ff ff d3 c0 41 21 84 24 fc 02 00 00 75 14 eb 0c <41> c7 84 24 f8 02 00 00 fd fc fb fa ff 8b 30 20 00 00 f6 45 50 20
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RSP: 0018:ffffc90000583a00 EFLAGS: 00010046
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff888105558000 RCX: 00000000fffbd60b
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RDX: 0000000002c00000 RSI: 0000000000000082 RDI: 0000000000000082
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: RBP: ffff888105559f30 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 000000000000000b
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: R10: 00000000fedbe000 R11: ffff888000000000 R12: 0000000000000000
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888105558000 R15: ffff888105559f30
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88840e800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
May 16 13:23:28 Excalibur kernel: CR2: 00000000000002f8 CR3: 000000000200c000 CR4: 00000000003506f0

 

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  • 2 weeks later...

I apologize for the delay in getting back to this. I drive truck and am gone from the house 2-4 weeks at a time. 

I am starting to believe this is a motherboard or bios issue. Currently updating bios now, but I took the PCI card out and stuck it in an old pc and tossed unraid on a fresh usb drive and it booted just fine and detected the drive(s) attached to the PCI card. this lets me know its not the card or unraid issue. just gotta find out why my server doesn't like it...

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