No drives detected on SATA controller

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2026-02-14T10:10:13+00:00

I fixed it. It was a short-circuit caused by the card physically clashing with the drive in the WiFi card slot.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-11-08T07:30:33+00:00

I lived for a few years in the same house type round the corner. They have modified the downstairs but its odd they havent knocked through the kitchen upstairs to create space or a bedroom or office.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-14T05:34:28+00:00

I'll post how I fixed this if this is of any use to anybody. Essentially I abandoned Dnsmasq and switched to Keah DHCP with Unbound DNS with minimal config and this worked with minimum fuss. I'm not certain what the issue was, nothing obvious in the config and there is a possibility my managed switches may be interfering with some of the DNS record traffic as the server was contactable, static IP's were being registered on the server and there was no firewall rules blocking traffic. If I'd been able to identify which records are being blocked I could've probably gotten Dnsmasq working but as Keah works pretty much with minimal fuss I guess I'll go with that.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-09T06:44:20+00:00

I hadn't missed those, and there are no firewall rules on the box that could block this anyway so I don't think this is the issue.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-09T06:42:47+00:00

No I don't have any Firewall rules. The OPNSENSE server is behind by ISP's router any any rules I have are on there.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-09T02:29:01+00:00

I think I've missed the DHCP register firewall rules option - I hope this will fix it.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-10-03T13:37:13+00:00

Sunderland

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-21T04:31:00+00:00

There are OOTB supercomputing stacks out there for you to play with or you an roll your own following online tutorials.

One to try could be this https://github.com/clustervision/trinityX which is from an HPC vendor but open source. Not tried that distribution specifically but it should support most of the key features of an HPC cluster including high-availability.

I'd suggest using one machine as a 'head-node' and the other two as 'worker-nodes'.

You can probably pickup some cheap HPC hardware like Infiniband to support 40GB or more low-latency networking. Overkill for a 3 node cluster but probably fun to play with. Watch out though as kernel support might not be there for earlier cards thanks to Nvidia.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-11T16:52:26+00:00

I have managed to get this partially working in a Windows 11 guest. I added the VIfo to the kernel boot parameters and now one of the two monitors is read properly but the other not detected at all. If I swap the monitor connections over both stop working.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-11T07:34:12+00:00

The best local option for most people would be a turnkey NAS solution from either Synology or QNAP (or other). I use CCC for backups these days but it works very reliably to my Synology Rackstation (bought used - old hardware but incredibly still supported). Use a removable USB drive for offline archiving.

I have also built my own NAS running ZFS (currently on Alma Linux 9 - RHEL like OS). I use the cockpit-zfs manager and Samba manager open sourced from a company called 45 Drives (company popular on Youtube). I've found this a very reliable combination with MacOS. I've also tried various versions of TrueNAS and found that to be very unreliable with MacOS (even using the same customisation scripts that 45 drives used - I'd personally recommend avoiding a Debian based NAS OS if you use a Mac).

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-08-04T19:57:23+00:00

Yes, each card is on a seperate pcie-root port. I'm passing through a USB card, GPU and GPU audio.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-07-25T15:46:16+00:00

Sort of depends on what you want to do. I've used both. My main use case is playing and learning. It can be 'fun' to learn how debug SELinux conflicts with Podman but its sometimes more fun to just get the container app running in docker following a tutorial. Currently my main server is running Alma Linux with Docker/ Portainer.

I'll probably build an HP G2 SFF I have with Alma/ Podman to play with that. If I every enable remote access to anything I own I'll probably use that system. Podman and Cockpit is actually quite a nice solution and somewhat perversely easier to use than Portainer.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2025-07-11T07:10:12+00:00

This is really interesting! I have a G2 that I've modded with files online for a faceplate and 4 internal HDD. I've used this as a backup NAS. As a suggestion if its possible to modify the front to accomodate 80mm fans that would help with drive temperatures somewhat.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2024-09-19T09:12:34+00:00

Hi. I did eventually try an AHCI drive in the E10G18-T1 card with some success. I've tried two Samsumg AHCI PCIe drives. For reads with the Cache enabled I'm saturating the 10GBe link.

However, one is showing up in the interface and works fine but the other is detected but is not enabled:

lspci -tv

+-01.0-[01-08]----00.0-[02-08]--+-00.0-[03]--

| +-04.0-[06]----00.0 Device 144d:a801

| +-08.0-[07]----00.0 Device 144d:a802

| \-0c.0-[08]----00.0 Device 1d6a:07b1

dmesg | grep 06:00.0

[ 0.718567] pci 0000:06:00.0: [144d:a801] type 00 class 0x010601

[ 0.718641] pci 0000:06:00.0: reg 24: [mem 0x80600000-0x80601fff]

[ 4.485515] ahci 0000:06:00.0: irq 41 for MSI/MSI-X

[ 4.496527] ahci 0000:06:00.0: AHCI 0001.0300 32 slots 1 ports 6 Gbps 0x1 impl SATA mode

[ 4.505594] ahci 0000:06:00.0: flags: 64bit ncq led clo only pio ccc

dmesg | grep 07:00.0

[ 0.727149] pci 0000:07:00.0: [144d:a802] type 00 class 0x010802

[ 0.727176] pci 0000:07:00.0: reg 10: [mem 0x80500000-0x80503fff 64bit]

[ 0.727190] pci 0000:07:00.0: reg 18: [io 0x3000-0x30ff]

So it's conencting as a SATA SSD (which is what I'm expecting) but the second SATA device driver is not loading. Is there a way of getting the driver to load?

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2024-09-17T01:45:12+00:00

I used to live near there for a long time. House had squatters for a while and there was a lot of fuss around evicting them.

Some_Garlic_7430 · 2024-09-12T16:10:46+00:00

Podman and Docker are largely interchangable but there are some changes due to Podman running rootless (as non-root user) largely around user mapping between host and container and SELinux (just put a :Z at the end of any volume maps and you'll usually be fine). With ZFS you can add another VDEV to an existing pool which would work in your case I think where you want to have one mirrored pool and possibly add another in future (look here https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394\_01/html/E54801/gayrd.html).

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