April 9, 201115 yr Having some issues getting my 3 new wd20ears drives detected as sata drives. Currently they show up as ata1.00 ATA-8: WDC WD20EARS ata2.00 " ata2.01 " I have 4 sata 2 ports on my motherboard. P5LD2-VM http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=orjq7G3HX3F0tRrN I have gone into the BIOS and it only lists the option to configure SATA as Standard IDE. so when I do this command dmesg|grep SATA|grep link I get nothing. Perhaps I need to flash a new BIOS version? I'd appreciate any input.
April 9, 201115 yr Author Ok. Follow up. I can see the drives when I go into the web admin console. I will assume this means it is working.
April 9, 201115 yr Author Though when I to a dmesg | grep SATA I see ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 - ie Sata 1.. confused.
April 9, 201115 yr FWIW, I have the same motherboard and it does the same thing. I've never seen the AHCI or native sata mode in the bios. It seems to work fine though. I think the fact that drives are recognized as /dev/sd[abc] does mean they are detected as sata. Try setting up your array/preclearing etc and see if everything seems normal.
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