TSM Posted May 19, 2012 Share Posted May 19, 2012 I couldn't find anything about this card in the forum. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115114 Does anyone think I'll have a problem with it? Quote Link to comment
elkay14 Posted May 20, 2012 Share Posted May 20, 2012 It won't work with stock unRAID, but can be made to work with this script I wrote: SATA Controller enabler script I'll just need to know the PCI ID of the card (easily obtained once the card is installed in your system.) Quote Link to comment
TSM Posted May 20, 2012 Author Share Posted May 20, 2012 Wow, thanks for the tip with this. Should this work with unraid 5? Quote Link to comment
elkay14 Posted May 25, 2012 Share Posted May 25, 2012 Yes, tested with 4.7 and up. Quote Link to comment
TSM Posted May 26, 2012 Author Share Posted May 26, 2012 I can't get this to work, and I think I might know why. It seems that there are 2 High Point Rocket 640L cards. This one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115118 And this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115114 I have the 2nd one, and I think the card specified in your script is the first one? Am I right on that? So I need to know how to add the 2nd card's pci id into the script. How do I find that? Did a little googling and found something called lspci that might be the correct thing to use, but I'm not sure how to make it work in unraid. What would the proper syntax be for modifying the script if I do find the pci_id? Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment
elkay14 Posted May 26, 2012 Share Posted May 26, 2012 One card is a Rocket 640L and the other is a RocketRAID 640L. The difference is BIOS and RAID functionality. Either can be made to work with unRAID. Quote Link to comment
naisspas Posted March 4, 2013 Share Posted March 4, 2013 This card is detect by unRaid (v5.0) and SATA Controller enabler script, works perfectly with 1 drive ( WDC_WD1502 ), but when comes the time to plug more drive, it fail ... Lots of data corruption, controler Timeout .... need to unpluggued and return to vendor .. Now use an 'old' Adaptec 1420SA, and all my additionnal drives works fine ! Quote Link to comment
gubbgnutten Posted March 17, 2013 Share Posted March 17, 2013 This card is detect by unRaid (v5.0) and SATA Controller enabler script, works perfectly with 1 drive ( WDC_WD1502 ), but when comes the time to plug more drive, it fail ... Lots of data corruption, controler Timeout .... need to unpluggued and return to vendor .. In what situations did you encounter data corruption and controller timeouts? I'm using a Rocket 640L on 5rc11 (no enabler script though), and am in the process of adding my second drive to it. The second drive is currently pre-clearing and I've run a parity check at the same time to stress the system a bit. So far nothing bad reported in the system log, and no parity errors found. Still waiting for the pre-clear results, and I guess simultaneous writes to both drives on the 640L remain to test as well. EDIT: Two drives worked perfectly. Pre-clearing the third drive brought down the system, catastrophic failure. And perfectly reproducible. Two drives fine, three drives disaster. Controller card disappears under load. Quote Link to comment
o0X0o Posted July 2, 2013 Share Posted July 2, 2013 Did anyone ever get this controller to work reliably? I have one of these controllers with 4 drives attached. Seemed to work fine at first (didn't negatively affect boot times, HDD's were available in unraid), but I've since noticed that whenever something resource intensive occurs (like a parity check), the drives go offline and a reboot is needed. Took a while to narrow down, as it is a new build with a mix of new and second-hand hardware, so I had to rule out cables/RAM/PS/etc before I got to this conclusion (and can now reproduce on demand...) Strange thing is though, that direct writes to the array (user shares and to disks attached to this controller) also cause the behaviour a few minutes into the transfer, however I noticed the other day that if I write to the cache disk and then let the mover script write to the array, then it doesn't seem to happen... perhaps because it's related to my next point in conjunction with high-water: As for why two disks work - may have something to do with the card having two Marvell chips. A saw a few reviews that said that performance/throughput was excellent when one drive was attached to each chip, but dropped greatly whenever there was two drives using one chip. The card may yet be useful in this configuration, but I bought it because I needed another 4 ports, not 2... I was planning to update the firmware of the card as soon as I get a chance, but not holding my breath at this point. Has anyone else done this, and did it help? Should we be updating the official hardware list with info about this card? Quote Link to comment
arkade Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 I have 2 of these in my dear server and so far (1 week unraid newbie) I'm having the same problems as already mentioned, disk timeouts, read errors etc. Seems like I have to retire them early Quote Link to comment
nogames Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 Well, that explains my troubles. Trying to get it to run properly for weeks now. Guess I should ditch that card Quote Link to comment
o0X0o Posted July 13, 2013 Share Posted July 13, 2013 I think it's safe to make it official, and I have updated the wiki to hopefully avoid anyone else getting bitten: http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Hardware_Compatibility#Hardware_Known_to_NOT_Work Quote Link to comment
elkay14 Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 What hardware version do you guys have? I have had one of these in my 4.7 install for over a year without issues. Quote Link to comment
o0X0o Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Mine says V1.0 and uses a Marvell 88SE9230. It is also screen printed with both "Rocket 640L" and "RocketRAID 640L" (see pic) which is interesting... the box just says Rocket. The difference seems to be support for RAID 0/1 vs 0/1/5/10/JBOD, and I have seen suggestions elsewhere that the RocketRAID 640L actually uses a 88SE9235. If true, then I do indeed have a Rocket 640L. Highpoint website suggests that there is now a "2nd Gen" version of the card (however is only ever referred to as "RocketRAID"), and which is again reported to use a Marvell 88SE9235. I note in some of the links in your sig that you are/were using a RR620 (not a 640) with a patched kernel and script to enable support for Marvell 88SE9128, however my 640L uses a Marvell 88SE9230 Would be good to know what card, version and chip you have, as well as how many drives/which ports you are using! Quote Link to comment
o0X0o Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Came across another unraid user with problems: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=24646.0 And I just read some comments elsewhere that users have needed to disable some on-board Marvell based SATA controllers to get this (PCI-x Marvell based SATA controller) to work... which typically means losing 2x SATA ports. I suspect this is the case for the above link (an old post I didn't want to dig up by replying to). Quote Link to comment
elkay14 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I was mistaken; I have a RocketRAID 640... not the L I'll do some more research on this L model. Quote Link to comment
elkay14 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 It appears there is a bug that keeps this card and any other Marvell 88SE923X based card from working properly in Linux. It is likely that there is some AHCI implementation weirdness on Marvell's part that is triggering bad behavior in the AHCI driver, causing the controller to freak out under load and a SMART command being issued. Stay away, as it doesn't look likely that this will be fixed in the kernel anytime soon. My RocketRAID 640 card does not use one of these chips -- there are two 9128 chips onboard instead. Quote Link to comment
schark Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I am looking for a SATA extension card and came across the High Point Rocket 640L. Actually I was looking for the normal 640 model but this is not available anymore. The 640L however is available for quite a decent price. As it is not in the list I am not sure if this is nowadays working with unraid 6.x or if I still should avoid that. Quote Link to comment
gubbgnutten Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I am looking for a SATA extension card and came across the High Point Rocket 640L. Actually I was looking for the normal 640 model but this is not available anymore. The 640L however is available for quite a decent price. As it is not in the list I am not sure if this is nowadays working with unraid 6.x or if I still should avoid that. I still have my 640L in a box somewhere, but I would never ever consider putting it back in any of my unRAID boxes. Seriously, we're talking about ancient budget cards that have caused catastrophic failure for multiple users... Are there no other options? Quote Link to comment
schark Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Hi, okay, noted. Then I would highly appreciate if you could help me to find an actual one, please? The list in the Wiki is not helpful to me. I am looking for a card offering 4 sata III 6gb/s. Price is should not exceed 200€. And I do not want to flash anything (because I do not know how to do that). So I would like something working out of the box. My rig is running at 6.1.6. All I can find is either oop or 400€, which exceeds my budget. EDIT: Just found the Highpoint Rocket 2720SGL. What about that? Forum posts say that this is plug-n-play and I could not find anything negative on the forum. Quote Link to comment
marmot74 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 I am using the 2720SGL with no problems, really quick and supports 8 Drives. Did not have to flash anything or add any drivers. Running unraid 6.1.7 Quote Link to comment
schark Posted February 1, 2016 Share Posted February 1, 2016 Hi, thanks for the positive feedback. Just to be sure I have another question. There are two versions of the 2720SGL out there. One is named Rocket, which offers 8 additional SATA ports. The other one is called RocketRaid and offeres 8 additional SATA ports and RAID functionalities. As we do not need the raid stuff for unraid I assume I could go with the normal Rocket version, right? Quote Link to comment
marmot74 Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Mine is labeled as "HighPoint 8-Port PCI-Express 2.0 x8 SAS/SATA 6Gb/s non-RAID Controller Components Rocket 2720SGL" So NON RAID. Quote Link to comment
schark Posted February 2, 2016 Share Posted February 2, 2016 Thank you. I will give it a try. Quote Link to comment
N1ckeh Posted March 24, 2018 Share Posted March 24, 2018 (edited) Hi, Ive just installed a Rocket 640L and two new Toshiba x300 4TB with one old Toshiba x300 4TB. The old one seems to be ok but the new ones are throwing some issues. Lots of write errors etc. I cant use the onboard Sata controller as it only supports 2TB max, hence the purchase of the 640L. The drives are detected and setup of array is fine but shortly after it will start to fall over. Do i need to run this script? Ive attached my logs. Thanks, N1ckeh nt3ch-unraid-diagnostics-20180324-1656.zip Edited March 24, 2018 by N1ckeh logs Quote Link to comment
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