Rockpro64 Sata Card kills itself

[AnujDatar]

I have the pine store SATA card (ASM1062) too, and it has always been really slow. I never bothered because I only use my nas box as a backup and all the media on it was copied with the HDD in a USB enclosure.

But I have been looking at adding another drive and using the NAS more actively, so I tried looking into the issue. I saw the same `Buffer I/O error` randomly pop up. I have been getting only like 3-4 MB/s over gigabit ethernet. I tried using inserting a sata ssd today, I get like 7MB/s. The SSD is slow even when I test it with `hdparm`.

Here `sda` is the HDD and `sdb` is the SSD.

Code:

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 354 MB in  3.01 seconds = 117.49 MB/sec

/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 586 MB in  3.01 seconds = 194.85 MB/sec

Then I removed the drives from the box inserted them in a USB enclosure and ran `hdparm` again

Code:

/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 352 MB in  3.00 seconds = 117.23 MB/sec

/dev/sdb:
Timing buffered disk reads: 1148 MB in  3.09 seconds = 371.95 MB/sec

Marvell cards seem to have fixed some issues for many of you, so I ordered a Marvell 9215 based card last week. It came in the mail today, and the seller sent me an ASM1062 .

Just checking if anyone's got their ASM1061/1062 working fine? Trying to see if there's anything I can do before sending this back.

I have the RP64 v2.1 board, that has the 4 PCIe resistors on it. A couple of weeks ago, I read in one of the threads that those shouldn't be there, and someone tried removing theirs and that fixed some issue for them. And these resistors are not on newer revisions of the board either. But I can't seem to find that thread anymore. I was wondering if I should try to remove them, but I don't have a hot air reflow station here, so I'd have to use my decade old soldering iron and hope it doesn't burn the board.