HDD's visible by BIOS but not Unraid

[MarkyMalarkey]

Hello everyone. I am new to Unraid and I am having an issue with my HDD's not displaying at all. I am on Unraid version 6.9.2. All of my drives are visible by my bios. My drives are:

• 2 x 14TB HDD (NTFS)
• 2 x 8TB HDD (NTFS)
• 1 x 256GB SSD (unknown)

 

Here is what I see when I try to assign them:

 

Nothing is displayed. I was using the drives for my setup in windows, so I know they are good. Is this a formatting issue? Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

diag.zip

Edited December 21, 2021 by MarkyMalarkey
Added Unraid version

[MAM59]

scroll down the page you took the screenshot from.

There should be a lot of "unassigned devices". You need to assign them to the array / cachepool first, then they will be formatted and finally show up at the places you are looking at now.

And because they contain NTFS, you will have to agree to reformat them too.

 

Edited December 21, 2021 by Michael Meiszl

[JorgeB]

You're using a RAID controller, those are not recommended, but if you still want to use you need to enable JBOD/RAID0 mode for all devices.

[MarkyMalarkey]

8 hours ago, Michael Meiszl said:

scroll down the page you took the screenshot from.

There should be a lot of "unassigned devices". You need to assign them to the array / cachepool first, then they will be formatted and finally show up at the places you are looking at now.

And because they contain NTFS, you will have to agree to reformat them too.

 

Thanks for the help! However, I see no devices in the "unassigned devices" section. Here is a screenshot of what I see:

 

6 hours ago, JorgeB said:

You're using a RAID controller, those are not recommended, but if you still want to use you need to enable JBOD/RAID0 mode for all devices.

 

This is a brand new sever and it does have a RAID controller, however I haven't set it up. So by removing it, my drives should display?

[JorgeB]

6 minutes ago, MarkyMalarkey said:

So by removing it, my drives should display?

Yes, as long as you connect the to a non RAID controller.

[MarkyMalarkey]

8 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Yes, as long as you connect the to a non RAID controller.

Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have one of those. But you said I can enable RAID0 for all devices and that should get my drives to show with the raid controller? Do I do that within my BIOS or Unraid?

 

[JorgeB]

7 minutes ago, MarkyMalarkey said:

But you said I can enable RAID0 for all devices and that should get my drives to show with the raid controller?

In the RAID controller BIOS.

[MarkyMalarkey]

Thanks @JorgeB. I was able to set up my PERC card for HBA mode which passed my drives directly to Unraid. Thanks again!