Got a PCI-express card, now ?


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Do I need to make any changes to the bios ? it's stated Non-RAID HDD in the specification, maybe that must be set in the bios ?  or it's a default settings ?

 

This is the card

http://www.bectrade.com/other-computer-accessories/p47213-pci-express-serial.html

 

//Peter

 

Brief 
SATA II 2-Ports with 3Gb/s and RAID
Features
2-Internal SATA II ports
Support RAID 0, 1
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Specification
General
1-Lane (x1) PCI-Express with transfer rate 2.5 Gb/s Full Duplex channel
Compliant with PCI-Express Revision 1.0a
Fully Plug & Play compatible
Driver supported MS Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/XP 64-bit/Vista, Linux, Mac OS
SATA II interface
Compliant with Serial ATA II Specification
Data transfer rate up to 3.0Gb/s
Backward compatible to SATA 1.0 Specification
Support Native Command Queue (NCQ), FIS Based Switching with Port Multiplier
Support 2-independent SATA channels
RAID Function (Optional)
Supports RAID 0 (striped), RAID 1 (mirror), JBOD
Supports Co-Exist RAID Set and Non-RAID HDD 
System Requirement
PC computer with One PCI-Express x1 slot
Supported OS

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...not clear what your exact problem is.

Here's my best guess...

 

You need to disable RAID mode in the card's BIOS for all disks...not sure what this would be..."NON-RAID HDD" or "AHCI" looks promising.

By the looks, this is a card with  ASMEDIA chipset.

You need to enable this inside the linux driver, in order to use it in unRAID. See here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=19882.0

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I got this info when added the card into the server, don't know if it's 100% OK

No drives connected to the card yet.

 

it says something about Unknown device

 

Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device 7132

 

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3132 Serial ATA Raid II Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Silicon Image, Inc. Unknown device 7132
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at fdbff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
Memory at fdbf8000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
I/O ports at ef00 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fda00000 [disabled] [size=512K]
Capabilities: [54] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [5c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Capabilities: [70] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting 
Kernel driver in use: sata_sil24
Kernel modules: sata_sil24

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