As the title says I am trying to passthrough a DVD-RW to my Win10 VM. I am able to passthrough a hard drive without issue & a USB Blu-Ray without issue. I would really like to utilize a SATA port on the Star Tech PCI Controller (PEXESAT322I). I have tried 3 different DVD-RW dives two of which I know work. When Truenas Scale boots it hangs with a AHCI Controller Unavailable. I am not quite sure what to do here. Someone suggested a different PCI controller but that was when I couldn’t even passthrough a hard drive. I’ll buy another card if that is going to fix this issue.
If truenas is using the controller at all. like for hard drives that’s not going to work. as passing through the controller will make the controller not available to truenas to use. Eather use your usb bluray drive or get a second controller for just the dvd drive.
Thanks for the reply. Even when I try just connecting a DVD-RW, Truenas does not want to boot. Like I said, if I need another card that if fine. I cannot not keep throwing crap at the problem hoping to fix the issue. I know others have used the same PCI controller I am using & that is why I bought it. What I don’t understand is I can passthrough a hard drive without issue but I cannot do a DVD-RW.
This’ll likely be advice you don’t want since you’re specifically asking about passing through to a vm: just plug it into a separate, non-virtualized ingest machine instead.
I’m assuming you want this for makemkv or some equivalent to backup movies for plex. I’ve spent more time than it was worth trying to pass through a blueray reader for that purpose into a vm on truenas & ended giving up because I couldn’t find any solution for truenas or any other hypervisor. Every reddit post and/or forum I read basically ended in failure.
Well I don’t know if the Dev’s simply broke Truenas & that is what I am starting to suspect. Because others have been apparently successful in this endeavor where I am failing. Optical Drive Passthrough Successfully | TrueNAS Community
Yes, I am trying to use MKV. The issue with using a USB Blu-ray is that if you move it to another computer. Then when you try to reboot your VM it won’t. You will either need to delete the device or plug it back in for the VM to boot. I have already run into this issue & it was a pain to figure out.
