Hello,

 

My SATA chipset is set to Native IDE currently.  I was told that in order to get all of my SATA drives to be recognized as SATA (a few are showing up as hdx devices), I need to configure AHCI.  I browsed through my BIOS, and found the (what I believe is) proper setting to change.  However, I set it from Native IDE to AHCI, did a save and exit--and lost my USB as the boot drive.  It was stuck on a screen showing my Hardware statistics:  

 

 

I went back into BIOS and noticed I couldn't set the USB back as the first boot disk, and I browsed all the available boot disks, and most were set as IDE now, instead of SATA.  So I changed it back to Native IDE.  So, I've provided a screen shot of the available options--which one will work for me? I have the BIOSTAR A760G M2+ SOCKET AM2+/AM3 MOTHERBOARD AMD CHIPS (http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/content.php?S_ID=394).  Also, AHCI is required for hot swapping functionality, correct? What else can I benefit from this configuration?

 

Here are my available options:

 

 

Thanks!

change it to AHCI.

 

You should still be able to set the flash drive as the boot drive, or set the boot priority so the flash drive boots first.

That's what I did, and experienced problems.  I'll check it out again tonight and see if I missed something.  Would IDE->AHCI work?

I think you need the AHCI set and there is a "IDE Compatibility Mode" (or something like that) that needs to be changed somewhere also.

 

Bruce

Set the Flash drive to "Forced FDD".

Why IDE though? None of my drives are IDE.  Is it a limitation in the motherboard? By default, is it only able to support so many SATA drives?

Why IDE though? None of my drives are IDE.  Is it a limitation in the motherboard? By default, is it only able to support so many SATA drives?

 

It is for Windows XP compatibility.  XP did not have native SATA drivers when shipped so motherboard manufacturers created a layer to present SATA drives as IDE so XP would still work and they would not get an ungodly amount of support calls and people complaining about there new motherboard/HD not working.

I'll look for Forced FDD on the USB drive and IDE Compatability Mode later tonight and report back.

 

Thanks.

Man this is annoying as shit.

 

Tried both AHCI and IDE->AHCI.  In BIOS, it will list them all as SATA.  Then it boots up, and two of them are still hdx devices.  Ughhh, wtf?!

A while back I did a small write up on the BIOS settings for exactly your motherboard.  Use all of these settings exactly and all your drives should show up as SATA in unRAID:

 

wiki link - First Time Configuration

I knew you'd come to the rescue.  Was about to PM you.  Bro hug!

 

And yes, this worked like a charm.  Except, and this has been the case for each other attempt, the first boot doesn't work--it brings me to that Hardware Info screen.  I need to Ctrl+Alt+Del, go back to Hard Disk Drives, and reset the first drive to the USB device--that automatically sets the Boot disk to the USB drive.  Save and Exit, and it starts up fine.  Does this happen to you, or anyone else, too?

I had the same thing happen to me on my board - every time I made a change to the disks, set everything, exit out, it would remove my USB drive as the first boot device. Go back in, change only that, back to the first, save and then it boots fine after that. But everytime I made any other change, even if I verified USB was still listed as first, it would always mess it up.

 

Shawn

 

No, that hasn't happened to me.  Once I set the USB drive as the boot device, the change would stick no matter how many times I changed around my hard drives.  Maybe it has something to do with the type of flash drive?  I'm not sure.  Anyway, glad you are up and running now.  Oh, and let me guess....it was the SATA IDE combined mode that you hadn't disabled.  That's a sneaky one.  I also didn't mention in the wiki article, but it is perfectly fine to disable any peripherals that you don't use (parallel port, serial port, etc.).

Yeah, I believe that was enabled my default.  And I kind of thought it had something to do with that..

 

And yes, I've disabled my sound card, paralell port, onboard NIC (Now that I got the Intel one since I had transfer issues with the onboard Realtek), and I think that's it...