December 14, 20232 yr I purchased the following card MZHOU PCIe 6 port SATA adapter (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098QQT1YF?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1) to get some more hard drives in my new server. Based on the link below For some reason UNRAID isn't showing the card so I can't see the hard drives. I have the defaults for my BIOS setup. The card doesn't ship with any drivers, but does say it supports RAID1, AHCI1, SPAN, RAIDO modes. I would think I want this to be in AHC1 mode, but not sure how to verify this. Not sure if I should just scrap this and look at a SAS card instead. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Diagnostics file attached. Server Details ASRock Z690 Extreme Bios 16.02 Intel i9-13900K 128G RAM 46TB WD Red hoth-diagnostics-20231214-1305.zip
December 15, 20232 yr No detection of the SATA controller, pls try different PCIe slot or verify does controller can be detect in other mobo.
December 15, 20232 yr Author tried other free PCIe slot on mobo, still no joy. Tried card in my backup unraid server different mobo and it works just fine. Must be some issue with the ASRock Z690 Extreme that I can't seem to solve. Nothing in the BIOS jumps out to me. If anyone has any suggestions I'm up for them. I was also looking at using a SAS card instead of the SATA card I currently have. I have been reviewing the following post However I'm more confused than originally on what I should be looking at.
December 16, 20232 yr Quite trouble, those mobo seems dosen't like storage add on card. Edited December 16, 20232 yr by Vr2Io
December 18, 20232 yr Author I ended up purchasing Genuine LSI 6Gbps SAS HBA LSI 9211-8i (=9201-8i) P20 IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID from the art of server on ebay and it worked great. All my hard drives are seen by the mobo and unraid.
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