keeweeman

I don't think there is a fault with the sata port tbh, like i say the drives were all working fine through both the sata (portable drive aside as that is usb only), and now they don't seem to work whether installed internally or through the usb adapter. It's very strange. I have however, just had some success with the 3tb drive, that seems to have reappeared after I plugged a monitor in to try and see the drives in the bios, I had left it plugged in and it seems to have been picked back up. I have just started the preclear on that and will add it to the array when it is done. Then will try a reboot with the dvd drive installed and see if whatever I have done in the last half hour has somehow fixed things

Thanks dlandon. I have tried the removing, then rebooting and reinstalling the internal 3tb drive using a different cable to a different sata port on the mobo, and the same issue persists. Is there a particular diagnostic file I should upload? I have downloaded them, but there is loads of files

No problem on the plugin support, that would make sense! If not about UD then what is it about? All of the above were showing up in UD before and now none of them will bar the dedicated portable drive. This strikes me that a/ I have done something to mess up a setting somewhere (highly likely), or b/ it is just that I need to clear a cache folder somewhere and it should then work again (or something on those lines). USB is only being use for data transfer onto the actual pool, and will not form part of the array once that is done. I am shifting across from using windows 10 as a home server to unraid. The 3tb drive is to be precleared and added to the pool having been plumbed in to the motherboard, and the 240gb ssd will also be an internal drive and used as part of the cache pool. In the short term I could do with the dvd drive being available (this will then be replaced by the above ssd once I have finished what I need it for due to only having 6 sata ports on the mobo). I have held off until now in terms of preclearing the 3tb drive simply because it is the one drive that still has all of the data I want to store on the server in one place, but I think I have now managed to sort a copy of the final couple of folders from it that I want a backup of "just in case". Can always guarantee that the drive in my main pc with all the photos and docs on will fail at the exact moment I hit preclear on the disk that has them all backed up to 🤣.

Tried to start a new thread but for some reason plugin support is greyed out in the list of forums for me to do so in. Strange issue for a newbie. I have setup a new unraid server and have been using a combination of: 1x 1tb USB portable drive, 1x 3.5" hdd plugged in via a usb adapter 1x 240gb ssd (currently has a windows on it, but intention is to clear it and mount it as a second cache) 1x 3tb drive plugged into one of the mobo sata ports 1x bluray/dvd drive plugged into one of the mobo sata ports. For some reason the 1tb portable drive still appears in unassigned devices when i plug it in, but the other devices no longer appear when i plug them in. It doesn't seem to matter if i plug them into the mobo directly, or using the adapter. The 3tb drive was plugged in for several days and was fine, but as a test I unplugged it earlier and now it doesn't seem to be detected when plugged back in. All of the devices have appeared in the unassigned devices list previously. Steps taken so far are to uninstall and reinstall the 3 unassigned devices apps, and to remove the now not recognised devices from the history in the hope that may allow them to appear again. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. If you need any logs then let me know, although I would appreciate some guidance on where to get them from and how as I am still a newbie to unraid 😁. I have tried looking/searching through some of the other posts but couldn't see anything that matched my issue. Thanks in advance. Col