ksignorini Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 I've removed my old PEXESAT322Is (three of them) and have replaced them with an Avago LSI 9207-8i. The LSI recognizes my drives and seems super fast. Originally, I installed it in my spare PCIe 3.0 slot. Unfortunately, I also pass a GPU through to VMs and it appears that both the LSI and GPU end up in the same IOMMU group. The VMs won't start. I moved the LSI to my one PCIe 2.0 slot (16x) hoping its on another group. Unfortunately, the computer itself won't recognize the LSI card when its plugged into this slot! The LSI BIOS doesn't load and the drives aren't recognized by unRAID (obviously). I assume that even though it's a PCIe 3.0 card, it should work in 2.0 (the manual doesn't indicate anything different--just says it must be at least 8x lanes). Any ideas? I'm really stuck. (Motherboard is MSI Z77A-G45.) Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 1 minute ago, ksignorini said: I assume that even though it's a PCIe 3.0 card, it should work in 2.0 Yes, it does. Look for a bios update or some bios settings relating to PCIe, but likely a board compatibility issue. Quote Link to comment
ksignorini Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Just now, johnnie.black said: Yes, it does. Look for a bios update or some bios settings relating to PCIe, but likely a board compatibility issue. I've looked through the MB BIOS settings regarding PCIe. Nothing jumps out as having any affect. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Also look for a bios update, not much else you can do. Quote Link to comment
ksignorini Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Just now, johnnie.black said: Also look for a bios update, not much else you can do. I'm usually pretty leery to do BIOS updates. You might be right though. Quote Link to comment
ksignorini Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 So I did the BIOS update for the motherboard. It's up-to-date now. The firmware in the LSI 9207 is already the most current (checked against their downloads). Still no go. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 Not much else you can do, other than trying a different board. Quote Link to comment
ksignorini Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 So I've decided to leave it in the slot with the shared controller w/GPU. I've used something called the ACS Override to get it working. Info on the ACS Override is here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/42192-trying-to-assign-gpu-to-a-win-10-vm/ Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 20, 2018 Share Posted September 20, 2018 4 hours ago, ksignorini said: I've used something called the ACS Override to get it working. If you can't get it working on the other slot or replace the board it's a option to try, but keep in mind that ACS Override can have stability issues. Quote Link to comment
ksignorini Posted September 22, 2018 Author Share Posted September 22, 2018 I've done a lot of reading about the ACS Override in the last couple days. The biggest issue is with DMA across devices in the same group--since ACS keeps them from DMAing each other normally. This looks like it's probably only a problem with say, two vid cards in SLI/Crossfire mode, or maybe some similar devices with bad firmware. Even jonp says he uses his GPU and LSI card in this manner (ACS Override on) based on the post above. I'm willing to give it a shot. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted September 22, 2018 Share Posted September 22, 2018 1 hour ago, ksignorini said: I'm willing to give it a shot. And you should, as long as you know there could be issues, I had some stability problems and I do disable it: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/37959-guide-passing-through-network-controllers-to-unraid-6-virtual-machines/?do=findComment&comment=602127 Quote Link to comment
ksignorini Posted September 23, 2018 Author Share Posted September 23, 2018 Gotcha. Quote Link to comment
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