StarTech PEXESAT322I Not Working


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I bought the card in the title to hook to my media sonic bays.. It shows in the bios when I am booting the drives and such.. But do not show in unraid.. Checking the system log it seems to have issues.. I thought it was supported out of the box but maybe its not? Any help would be great.. whats weird is it shows properly in lspci -v

 

02:00.0 SATA controller: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0])
        Subsystem: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 28
        
        Memory at dfd10000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
        Expansion ROM at dfd00000 [disabled]
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
        Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [80] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel
        Kernel driver in use: ahci
        Kernel modules: ahci

Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7.15: hard resetting link
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7.15: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7.00: failed to read SCR 0 (Emask=0x40)
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7.00: failed to write SCR 1 (Emask=0x40)
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7.00: failed to clear SError.N (errno=-5)
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7: failed to recover PMP after 5 tries, giving up
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7.15: Port Multiplier detaching
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7.00: disabled
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7: exception Emask 0x2 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 frozen t4
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7: irq_stat 0x00800000, incorrect PMP
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7: hard resetting link
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7: SATA link up 6.0 Gbps (SStatus 133 SControl 300)
Mar 25 15:43:43 Tower kernel: ata7: EH complete

tower-diagnostics-20170325-1546.zip

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5 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

AFAIK the Asmedia controller doesn't work well with a port multiplier in linux.

 

 

Thank you for the reply.. is there one that does? I've tried this one now and the SYBA SI-PEX40060. Neither were recognized properly in unraid..  Also sad face.. It did work really well in windows.. Tested it on my gaming machine before I stuck it in the server just to make sure it would show all the drives properly before putting in the server.. Learned my lesson after the SYBA one.

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Listen up, everybody ...

Port Multiplication is a can of huge bucket!! of worms.

 

Ever since the pioneering SiI3132 (and its 31xx brethren) [as PM-aware controller] and the SiI 3726 (& 4726/5744) [as Port Multpliers], not a single one of the "me too" followers has come within a mile of correctly implementing even 20% of the [/S]ATA/AHCI Specification for Port Multiplication.

 

Yes, a specific controller chip will actually behave correctly in combination with a specific PM chip (usually with the necessary assistance of a vendor-supplied driver [like a private nurse as the only one who can communicate with the brain-damaged patient]) (or because the two are from the same manufacturer who precisely designed them to inter-operate correctly with each other [but each, independently, is provably brain-damaged]).

 

As an example of that last point, I refer you to the nearby thread on the PEX-40071, which does the PM thing with a Marvell 9235 & a Marvell 9705 (the PM). It actually behaved/performed admirably. But when I tried to connect a SiI3726 (which my gut tells me does a thorough job of meeting the Spec) to a Marvell 9230 (a 9235 with a shoeshine), the results were a total disaster ... even though I can (sort of) get a Marvell 9120 to dance with that same 3726; they dance fine, but they need help getting out on the floor [Don't ask ... just stay away!]

 

Now you know how many shakers of salt you need when you see "port multiplier" used in a bullet list of features for a controller or enclosure ... Caveat Emptor.

 

--UhClem  "Hey, mister, is this a game of chance?"  ... "Not the way I play it."

 

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