SATA PCI-E Card 3.0 x1 is not recognized in BIOS or Unraid

[Maxver]

Hi,

 

In short summary, my ASMedia 1064 (SI-PEX40156) cannot be recognized by my system, neither in BIOS or in Unraid. I tried changing various different settings and going through manuals but no luck. 

 

CPU i7-8700

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 I AORUS PRO WIFI (rev. 1.0), bios F8i https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z390-I-AORUS-PRO-WIFI-rev-10/support#support-dl-bios

PCI-E Card: ASMedia 1064 (SI-PEX40156) (4 ports), inserted into PCI-E 3.0 X16 slot  https://www.sybausa.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1062

RAM: 32GB 3200MHz

Disks: 1 SSD M2P, 3 HDD's through SATA on the motherboard

 

I have another card, SI-PEX40064 (Marvell 88SE9215) that I tried using, but no luck, so I purchased the ASMedia one. 

 

Through the PCI-E Card, I tried to connect 10TB drive, as well as 3TB drive (WD Red, Blue). It was not shown in the Unraid disk selection and the PCI-E x16 slot in BIOS shows as there's nothing connected there. I tried various settings, such as PCIE bifurcation to 8x/x4/x4 instead of x16, legacy boot compatibility instead of UEFI etc.

 

I can definitely confirm that the PCI-E 3.0 X16  slots works, as I had a graphics card there previously. The disks are functional as well. The PCI-E SATA Card LED's do light up during boot and then only one of them stays on (Power I think), none of the other ones are blinking. 

 

Does anyone has any suggestions on why is it not showing up? Is the motherboard the issue and doesn't allow PCIE x1 devices?

 

 

 

 

 

 

media-diagnostics-20230117-1020.zip

Edited January 17, 2023 by Maxver

[JorgeB]

If you have another PC try the controller there to see if it's working, it could be some compatibility issue.

[Maxver]

The controller is working as well. I inserted it in to the PCI-E4 slot (Gen3, x16) on MSI Z690-A DDR4 Motherboard and the 10TB disk is visible in the Disk Management in Windows 10, without any driver installation. Pretty much plug and play on my desktop computer.

[JorgeB]

That suggests a board compatibility issue, try it in a different PCIe slot if available.

[Be-Art]

I have a similar issue and i need help with a unit labeled on ebay as a "SA3120J PCIE Adapter 20 Port 6Gbps PCI-Express X1 to SATA 3.0 Controller Cards U" Has been functioning fine since March 2023. It dropped in fine no special action needed if memory serves. Saturday afternoon the server stopped functioning, was spinning but cannot reach GUI or services, so hard shut down Removed a Mellanox card as its not in service,  I dont have a CPU with graphics so i have to put a GPU for Bios access. I try looking through further to other threads on this forum and r/unraid. Eventually i lean into bringing the bios up to date as it was two years behind. After hours of tinkering the Sata controller is in the same x1 pcie slot it has been for the year but wont see the drives that belong in the assigned devices pool. Eventually i discover the card will work in X16 slots but not all the drives, 2 remain missing, i swap them to another port they remain offline. I try run those to another PCIe card and unraid does not boot fully. I tried briefly the SA3120J in another machine with a SSD drive, it did not see the drive. I am did not modify that machine as its a backup unraid server. I am in South Africa, Its not so easy to replace the card in a couple days, I see many people rate the LSI HBA.

 

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[JorgeB]

The controller is not being detected, try a different PCI slot or test in a different PC to make sure it's working.

[Be-Art]

As at last night i have all but two drives in the array present, they should have been present as they run through the same card. I tried alternate PCIE slots and would get this result in X16 slots. Today i removed the NVME M.2 from slot A and second M.2 on a PCIE card into PCIE X1_3. migrated the data to SATA SSD's (docker and vm cache drives) to clear lanes. I dont fully understand lanes and how they function. This seems to be part of the issue, i dont understand why the physical configuration would have changes even after a Bios update.

[JorgeB]

You will need to check the board manual, for any PCIe limitations, sometimes using an M.2 slot can disable a PCIe slot for example.