Promise SATA2 150 SX8 Drives not found in UnRAID

[Expat444]

Hi All

I have a Rackable S3118 (Dual AMD TYAN motherboard) which I'm setting up as my main UnRAID server, I have added disks to the onboard SATA and they show up and are part of my array, I've recently added a Promise SATA2 150 SX8 card and whilst the drives I connect to it are displayed correctly in the Promise BIOS startup and the Promise card is displayed in the PCI devices, UnRAID doesn't detect the drives connected to the Promise card (they aren't displayed using the df command either).

Have I missed a step or is there something I need to do to get the Promise connected drives working?

Thanks

 

 

 

01:03.0 Mass storage controller: Promise Technology, Inc. SATAII150 SX8 (rev 02)

Subsystem: Promise Technology, Inc. SATAII150 SX8

Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5

Memory at fc700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

I/O ports at 8c00

Memory at fc6c0000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

Expansion ROM at fc680000 [disabled]

Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: [70] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

Capabilities: [80] PCI-X non-bridge device

[BRiT]

Set the drives to jbod or disable the promise bios.

 

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[Expat444]

I don't see an option to do that in the Promise BIOS, it just gives options to change the spin-up delay and enable/disable NCQ.

UnRAID isn't trying to boot from the Promise card, it's just that drives connected to it aren't showing up so I can't add they to an array.

[Expat444]

I updated to 5.0 RC6 R8168 Test2 but there's no improvement, is there anything else I can try?

I've tried searching the Promise boards for updates/advice but without success.

There is a linux driver for this board but I thought the drivers were already included in UnRAID.

[dcoens]

You can disable your bios detection of an option boards by going to the motherboards bios, under Advanced, disable option ROM scan.  This is how my older TYAN dual CPU board was.  I had to do this for other reasons though.