Hey All,

 

I was wondering if anyone has run into this problem?

I searched the forums, but couldn't find anything close enough.

 

I have a GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 AM2+/AM2 AMD mother board.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128342

 

It has a pcie16 and pcie1 slot.

 

When I plug in a pcie sata card into each slot, one will cancel the other out in unraid.

The bios sees the cards and they are properly detected.

 

I have tried using jmicron cards on both slots.

I then tried to mix it up with a jmicron and sil and so far no luck.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks

 

 

I'm having the same issue. I need to add a 4th controller and the only PCIE slot I have left is the 16x one which is typically used for a video card, but I put a PCI video card to free the slot up. Every time I put a controller in the PCIEx slot, it knocks out some of the drives and unraid basically freaks out. The last time I had to perform a parity sync.

 

Is there a bios setting that we need to change in order to be able to use these slots with a sata controller?

Major oversight on my part.

I should of checked devices more carefully.

The devices got moved around in a major way.

I thought once a device was assigned it would not move around, but I was wrong.

Once I went through my list I noticed everything was coming up.

 

Same here, I didn't know that installing new controllers could change existing devices. And it turns out that the missing devices seems to be related with the sata controller being installed in the PCIE 16 slots. My MB has 2 of them and the controllers do not seem to work in either of them. This last controller is only used for the external eSata connections so it's not critical, but I would like to get it working at some point. I have to keep investigating to see what is going on.

 

I wonder why unraid doesn't just match up the devices automatically by their serial numbers. If I can manually take a screen shot and then match them up myself, unraid should be able to do the same.

 

 

Hey All,

 

I was wondering if anyone has run into this problem?

I searched the forums, but couldn't find anything close enough.

 

I have a GIGABYTE GA-MA74GM-S2 AM2+/AM2 AMD mother board.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128342

 

It has a pcie16 and pcie1 slot.

 

When I plug in a pcie sata card into each slot, one will cancel the other out in unraid.

The bios sees the cards and they are properly detected.

 

I have tried using jmicron cards on both slots.

I then tried to mix it up with a jmicron and sil and so far no luck.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks

 

 

 

I will say this probably the MB issue.

 

I use MSI P43 Neo3-F for my unRAID, it has a JMicro chip on board to provide 2 extra SATA ports in addition to Intel ICH10.

I have a Rosewill RC-218 (Marvell chip) at PCI-E 16x slot

I have a cheap 2 ports SATA card (Silicon Image chip) at PCI-E 1x slot

 

System is running fine without problem with unRAID 4.4.2. You might want to go through syslog to find out why system doesn't

bring up missing card during initialization.

 

Same here, I didn't know that installing new controllers could change existing devices. And it turns out that the missing devices seems to be related with the sata controller being installed in the PCIE 16 slots. My MB has 2 of them and the controllers do not seem to work in either of them. This last controller is only used for the external eSata connections so it's not critical, but I would like to get it working at some point. I have to keep investigating to see what is going on.

 

I wonder why unraid doesn't just match up the devices automatically by their serial numbers. If I can manually take a screen shot and then match them up myself, unraid should be able to do the same.

 

 

 

I think this is a known "issue"(?) in UnRAID that any changes in hardware configuration either through flashing BIOS, re-cabling, remove or add extra add-on cards.....etc that might change the way system scan and assign disks Id will potentially confuse unRAID and result a disabled system. To fix it, just base on your previous configuration and re-assign all disk back to original slot then restart unRAID, no parity sync required.

 

I ran into this same issue when i flashed BIOS as well as added RC-218 in my system.

Same here, I didn't know that installing new controllers could change existing devices. And it turns out that the missing devices seems to be related with the sata controller being installed in the PCIE 16 slots. My MB has 2 of them and the controllers do not seem to work in either of them. This last controller is only used for the external eSata connections so it's not critical, but I would like to get it working at some point. I have to keep investigating to see what is going on.

 

I wonder why unraid doesn't just match up the devices automatically by their serial numbers. If I can manually take a screen shot and then match them up myself, unraid should be able to do the same.

 

 

 

I think this is a known "issue"(?) in UnRAID that any changes in hardware configuration either through flashing BIOS, re-cabling, remove or add extra add-on cards.....etc that might change the way system scan and assign disks Id will potentially confuse unRAID and result a disabled system. To fix it, just base on your previous configuration and re-assign all disk back to original slot then restart unRAID, no parity sync required.

 

I ran into this same issue when i flashed BIOS as well as added RC-218 in my system.

When it encounters disks on new hardware, hardware it never saw previously, it does not re-assign the drives itself.  This by design. 

 

If switched around on the existing controller, as long as the parity drive is still on the same port on the controller, it notices, waits for your confirmation to start the array, and deal with it just fine.

Well I finally fixed my issue with the sata controllers not working in the PCI-E 16X slot. It's the motherboard. While video cards work on it, for some reason 1X cards don't. I also fixed another issue I had where the loading of bzroot would take 70 seconds. Yet another bug where the MB would only boot off a USB drive using USB 1.0. I was surprised as it's a good Gigabyte motherboard. Thankfully I was able to swap it out with another server that had a much newer Gigabyte motherboard and everything works perfectly on it. Now I have all my sata controllers and bzroot loads in 5 seconds!

Thankfully I was able to swap it out with another server that had a much newer Gigabyte motherboard and everything works perfectly on it.

 

Next time, you might want to flash a new BIOS from vendor first before swap see if it helps. My MSI P43 Mobo had problem to recognize extra 4GB memory

i put in when expanding total memory size from 2GB to 6GB, after flashed a new BIOS from MSI this problem was solved.

 

Next time, you might want to flash a new BIOS from vendor first before swap see if it helps.

My motherboard has the latest firmware.