SATA controler detected no drives or channels present

[Przemo-c]

Hi i have SiI 3114 SATA150 controller and i've connected drive to it and it doesn't detect it.
dmesg output:

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atapci1: <SiI 3114 SATA150 controller> port 0xec00-0xec07,0xe480-0xe483,0xe400-0xe407,0xe080-0xe083,0xe000-0xe00f mem 0xfebff800-0xfebffbff irq 22 at device 3.0 on pci5
ata3: <ATA channel> at channel 0 on atapci1
ata4: <ATA channel> at channel 1 on atapci1
ata5: <ATA channel> at channel 2 on atapci1
ata6: <ATA channel> at channel 3 on atapci1

camcontrol devlist -v output:

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camcontrol devlist -v
scbus0 on ahcich0 bus 0:
<WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51>    at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (ada0,pass0)
<>                                 at scbus0 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus1 on ahcich1 bus 0:
<WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51>    at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (ada1,pass1)
<>                                 at scbus1 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus2 on ata2 bus 0:
<>                                 at scbus2 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus3 on ata3 bus 0:
<>                                 at scbus3 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus4 on ata4 bus 0:
<>                                 at scbus4 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus5 on ata5 bus 0:
<>                                 at scbus5 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus6 on ata6 bus 0:
<>                                 at scbus6 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus7 on ahcich2 bus 0:
<ST3000DM001-1CH166 CC24>          at scbus7 target 0 lun 0 (ada2,pass2)
<>                                 at scbus7 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus8 on ahcich3 bus 0:
<ST3000DM001-1CH166 CC24>          at scbus8 target 0 lun 0 (ada3,pass3)
<>                                 at scbus8 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus9 on ahcich4 bus 0:
<ST3000DM001-1CH166 CC24>          at scbus9 target 0 lun 0 (ada4,pass4)
<>                                 at scbus9 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus10 on ahcich5 bus 0:
<WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0 51.0AB51>    at scbus10 target 0 lun 0 (ada5,pass5)
<>                                 at scbus10 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus11 on ahcich6 bus 0:
<ST3000DM001-1CH166 CC24>          at scbus11 target 0 lun 0 (ada6,pass6)
<>                                 at scbus11 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus12 on ahcich7 bus 0:
<ST3000DM001-1CH166 CC24>          at scbus12 target 0 lun 0 (ada7,pass7)
<>                                 at scbus12 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus13 on ctl2cam0 bus 0:
<>                                 at scbus13 target -1 lun -1 ()
scbus14 on umass-sim0 bus 0:
<pqi IntelligentStick PMAP>        at scbus14 target 0 lun 0 (pass8,da0)
scbus-1 on xpt0 bus 0:
<>                                 at scbus-1 target -1 lun -1 (xpt0)

All of those drives are connected to controlers on the mainboard .
Is this card not compatibilie with nas4free?
Or am i missing something?

[raulfg3]

the controller is compatible, but historically have a lot of problems, if possible for you try to change for other controller.

all references was to old dead forums:

http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php?id=faq:0098&s[]=3114

http://wiki.nas4free.org/doku.php?id=na ... e&s[]=3114

[Przemo-c]

Thanks for the links ... already visited them...
i's not so critical to connect it now .. i just wanted to add spare drive to zfspools and the nas box was build before me and there was pci card in there ... I'll try to find some compatibile sata controler either for PCIE x1 or PCI
Best regards

[Przemo-c]

Any recomendations for prefferably 4port pcie x1 controller that will support 3TB drives that will work on NAS4FREE?

Best regards
Przemyslaw Dubiel

[dnar]

Any recomendations for prefferably 4port pcie x1 controller that will support 3TB drives that will work on NAS4FREE?

Best regards
Przemyslaw Dubiel

Are you sure you want to run 4 drives on PCIe x1? Bandwidth is a limiting factor here. If you can run x4 or x8 slots then look at the Highpoint RocketRAID 600 series or the 2720 ( 8 x SATAIII ports and PCIe x8 - using this myself). All supported and not too much $$$$ compared to Adaptec cards.

FYI I just replaced 2 x Sunix 4 port PCI SATA cards (sil3114 based) with a Highpoint 2720 card, running 6 x WD 1TB Green drives (SATAII) in ZFS Z2 array and get around 300MB/sec reads! Over 3 times the speed of running SATA 1 on old PCI slots...

[b0ssman]

i would suggest a ibm m1015 instead of the highpoint 2720.

can you give us some more information what motherboard you have?

[apollo567]

Any recomendations for prefferably 4port pcie x1 controller that will support 3TB drives that will work on NAS4FREE?

Best regards
Przemyslaw Dubiel

Go for a PCIe x4 Controller in Minimum !! If you want to add more Drives later have a look at PCIex8 Controllers of LSI (or their OEM derivatives)

[dnar]

i would suggest a ibm m1015 instead of the highpoint 2720.

can you give us some more information what motherboard you have?

I looked at this card, it does not have individual disk activity LED headers, which I wanted as my drive caddies provide these LED's.

[b0ssman]

I looked at this card, it does not have individual disk activity LED headers, which I wanted as my drive caddies provide these LED's.

it does have it. its called SGPIO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGPIO
but your backplane will need to support it.

[Przemo-c]

I want to have an option of 4 drives only one would be constantly in use. others would be as a spare and only temporarily until I'd replace drive in its proper place

[b0ssman]

http://www.amazon.com/Syba-Express-Port ... B002R0DZWQ

[dnar]

I looked at this card, it does not have individual disk activity LED headers, which I wanted as my drive caddies provide these LED's.

it does have it. its called SGPIO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGPIO
but your backplane will need to support it.

SGPIO is not compatible with my backplane as I don't have one ! The 2720 also has SGPIO.