[SOLVED] Sata internal PCIE1 problem

[Jubbs]

Hi peeps. I have an Asus B-350 Mobo and an M2 installed, so of course I've lost two sata ports (5 & 6). Well I thought, I'll get a sata internal card with 4 ports plugged into the PCIE1.1 socket and job done.
Its a Sata 6G PCI Express card, Marvell 9215 (4S) Compatible with sata 3.0.
Initially, Win10 didnt recognise it so couldn't use the driver disc. Device manage wouldn't list it, so installed .dll's and .sys's from disc to sytem32 etc and finally it was recognised but wasnt working. Upgraded drivers to 2015 spec and now it says it is working, under Storage Controllers, details...Marvell 92xx SATA 6G Controller.
In information under DM's Events tab...
Device PCI\VEN_1B4B&DEV_9215&SUBSYS_92151B4B&REV_11\6&5afc149&0&0038020B was configured.
Driver Name: mshdc.inf
Class Guid: {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Driver Date: 06/21/2006
Driver Version: 10.0.15063.0
Driver Provider: Microsoft
Driver Section: msahci_Inst
Driver Rank: 0xFF2005
Matching Device Id: PCI\CC_010601
Outranked Drivers:
Device Updated: false
Parent Device: PCI\VEN_1022&DEV_43B4&SUBSYS_33061B21&REV_02\5&14c3b491&0&38020B

But any drive plugged into it does not come up in DM or Explorer. Without the M2 and both plugged into 5 & 6 they work and are recognised.

Have I been sold a pup or is there something I can tweek ? Bios doenst have anything to check the card, well nothing I can find.

Any help appreciated )


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[kerberos_20]

this card doesnt support UEFI
u will need to go to uefi (bios) and enable CSM for storage devices
and windows will need to be reinstalled if u had CSM disabled
AND your m.2 drive will not work with CSM if its nvme

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

what is the exact make & model?

Is it actually made by Marvel ?
or is that just the company who make the chipset

in some cases the SATA controller card has its own BIOS which is needed to set up the hard disks (often when RAID options exist)

In other cases the correct Marvel driver needs to be loaded, then the PC restarted for Windows to load a SATA driver to recognise the hard disks

I presume you already have disks plugged into SATA ports 1 2 3 & 4 so need extra ports

regards

Mike Barnes

 

[Jubbs]

this card doesnt support UEFI
u will need to go to uefi (bios) and enable CSM for storage devices
and windows will need to be reinstalled if u had CSM disabled
AND your m.2 drive will not work with CSM if its nvme

Oh, well thats binned the card then, I'll have to look for a UEFI card if one exists I'm not going to change my win10 installation again, its working after a disatrous update at 4am last friday which took out all my usb's on startup. So new mobo and memory !

Thanks for the heads up Kerberos.

 

[Jubbs]

Hi

what is the exact make & model?

Is it actually made by Marvel ?
or is that just the company who make the chipset

in some cases the SATA controller card has its own BIOS which is needed to set up the hard disks (often when RAID options exist)

In other cases the correct Marvel driver needs to be loaded, then the PC restarted for Windows to load a SATA driver to recognise the hard disks

I presume you already have disks plugged into SATA ports 1 2 3 & 4 so need extra ports

regards

Mike Barnes

Model is Iocrest SI-PEX40064 6G card
It took some searching but got holdof earlier drivers than those on the disc. Once its recognised, install the newer ones and it "works". There is no BIOS for the card that I can find either on the disc or elsewhere.
Yes, I have the other 4 ports used up.

Thanks for the info mbarnes

 

[kerberos_20]

no idea if there are any uefi compatible sata cards
just a idea...see if your biossupports under CSM storage both legacy and uefi mode
that will solve issue
also load optional ROM should be enabled (if there is setting for it)

 

[Jubbs]

this card doesnt support UEFI
u will need to go to uefi (bios) and enable CSM for storage devices
and windows will need to be reinstalled if u had CSM disabled
AND your m.2 drive will not work with CSM if its nvme

Been on the hunt for a UEFI compliant card, not easy as most specs dont specify that, but would a AHCI compliant card be the same thing, I'm having trouble working out the difference.

Ta.

 

[kerberos_20]

they should be all ahci compliant, nobody is using ide these days anymore

 

[Jubbs]

they should be all ahci compliant, nobody is using ide these days anymore

Can you tell I'm a noob yet..lol

Ok, went itno, BIOs and the only settings that came anywhere near your suggestions were..

Sata Mode - AHCI or RAID
HYPERKIT mode - Disable for M2
Legacy USB support - Auto / Disable / Enable

There was something about enable SR-10V PCIe devices.

I just wonder what I can do to get just another couple of sata ports, if I'd known about the M2/sata port loss I'd have bought a mobo with more ports, but that doesn't seem to be standard and 6 is. I suppose thats the chipset bottleneck.

 

[kerberos_20]

its on BOOT page

 

[Jubbs]

its on BOOT page

Yep, there it its (hangsheadinshame). So it was all at default, Legacy and UEFI mode but no optional ROM.

With a bit more digging I dont think I have an option, it looks like the B350 chip runs the 2 x PCIex4 slots in the same channels as both the 1&2 ports, 3&4 ports, so that may be why the card is not registering, the sata is taking them over, although that may not be the case, some manufacturers have utilised another 2 ports from eSata. The Ryzen chip does the 5&6 ports that get lost when you use M2 but are seperate in some other boards.

My Sabertooth FX990 had 8 Sata and 2 eSata so I'm looking a bit stupid for not knowing the latest trends.

Thanks for your info kerberos, you been very helpful, I'm just gonna do away with the M2 for a while and use my internal caddy to hot swap my backup drives for now.
Gotta get shut shuteye, cheers.

 

[kerberos_20]

there should also be available sata to usb 3.0/2.0 adapters (internal)
smt like this https://www.addonics.com/products/adsau3.php

 

[Jubbs]

there should also be available sata to usb 3.0/2.0 adapters (internal)
smt like this https://www.addonics.com/products/adsau3.php

Thanks for the link, I have looked at other ports to expand sata but didnt know these solutions existed.

Have contacted Asus to see if this board supports PM (port multiplier) I can't find any reference to it in specs, if so that may answer my problem, dont care about degraded speed, only a DVD rom and HDD caddy will be connected for now, but could then use M2 and remaining 4 sata ports for System and Backup drives etc.

Everthing is just so blazingly quick with the M2.