andyjayh Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 This is a new unRAID build with all new hardware. Motherboard is a ASUS M4A78LT-M which has 6 onboard SATA ports. The case I have is a Zalman MS1000-HS2 which comes with 2 x 3 drive hot swap bays. Was only planning to go live with 3 HDD's but I have ended up ordering another 3 drives so I will need all 6 bays. During the build I have connected all 6 on board controllers to the bays. However when I type "dmesg|grep SATA|grep link" this is the output; root@Media:~# dmesg|grep SATA|grep link ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300) ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300) root@Media:~# Currently only have 1 drive installed but I expected to see all 6 SATA controllers. When I put a couple more drives in the MB BIOS did see all three but I still did not get ata5 & 6 to show up in unRAID. Any ideas as I am assuming the hw is ok due to the HDD showing up in the BIOS. Quote Link to comment
queeg Posted February 13, 2011 Share Posted February 13, 2011 In the bios you need to set the ports to AHCI. I think they default to IDE. Quote Link to comment
andyjayh Posted February 13, 2011 Author Share Posted February 13, 2011 In the bios you need to set the ports to AHCI. I think they default to IDE. Thanks I'll try on Tuesday as I have just set off another preclear so I guess the system will be busy until the early hours of Tuesday now :'( Quote Link to comment
dyrewolfe Posted February 14, 2011 Share Posted February 14, 2011 With my ASUS board (M4A89TD Pro), The last 2 ports can be set to IDE mode while the 1st four are set to AHCI. Like queeg said, make sure they are all set to AHCI. Quote Link to comment
andyjayh Posted February 14, 2011 Author Share Posted February 14, 2011 Thanks guys, worked a treat At this point that is all my snags cleared up and I am copying data to the RAID as I type Quote Link to comment
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