Physical Drives Displayed during POST : DisabledĬPLD (Load version/ Flash version) : 8/ 10 Monitor Log Severity Level : Informational ``` arcconf getconfig 1 Controller information This leads to the following (abbreviated & tidied up) arcconf(8) output: Set the controller's operating mode to HBA disabling the RAID functions, and.Set the backplane mode to disabled, since it's going to be connected directly to hard-drives,.Set "BIOS halt on missing drives" to 255 (disabling the halt, because I don't plan to connect 16 drives to it),.Reset its configuration to defaults and rebooted again,.32082, I think, didn't save it, not sure) to the latest version available from Adaptec's website (32118) and rebooted, Reset its configuration to defaults and rebooted,.The first thing I did to the card was, in order: This lead me to an eBay posting for an Adaptec ASR-71605 which has 4 SFF-8643 ports which can each support 4 SATA hard-drives (for a total of 16 hard-drives on one card) and was available for £42. So, I sought to obtain an HBA that would allow me to abandon the motherboard's SATA ports entirely, and obsolete the SI元124 at the same time, allowing me to connect all 10 internal 3.5" hard-drives to it. The drives themselves check out okay (a SMART extended offline surface test passed on all 6 with no issues), swapping drives on those ports doesn't help, and changing cables doesn't help, leading me to believe it's this issue. However, the Z97-K has a SATA chipset with a known degradation problem ( ) and my board has been throwing SATA link errors and command failures on two specific ports for weeks now. This provides for a total of 14 3.5" hard-drives. An external 4-drive 3.5" hard-drive tower is connected to one of these eSATA ports. A Silicon Image SI元132 eSATA card (which provides 2 rear eSATA ports).The 4 3.5" hard-drives in the case's 4 internal drive bays are connected to this card. A Silicon Image SI元124 SATA card (which provides 4 internal SATA ports).The 6 3.5" hard-drives in the front docks are connected to the motherboard. An ASUS All Series Z97-K motherboard (which provides 6 SATA ports) and Intel Core i5-4570 CPU.An ICY DOCK MB455-SPF, and the single-bay single-drive version underneath it (I don't recall the model number), allowing me to fit 6 3.5" hard-drives into 4 of its 5 front 5.25" bays. I have a makeshift NAS at home which consists of: I moved it to the PCIe 2.0 x16 (wired for x8) port and it appears to work fine it no longer hangs for ~10 seconds when the kernel driver probes for it, and an mdraid resync is proceeding at ~ 110 MB/s. It turns out that this card just doesn't like being in the PCIe 3.0 x16 port usually reserved for the GPU on this motherboard.
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