I've got 13 drives in my array right now - 6 on the mobo and 7 on an AOC-SASLP-MV8. When I go to add a 14th drive (last connection on the SASLP) my system won't boot, requesting me to "insert bootable media, and restart" (something to that effect).

Usually this issue is because it's trying to boot from something other than the USB but I've got my BIOS setup to solve this (forced FDD, top boot priority) and the last 13 drive additions went fine.

I've ruled out the sata card by buying a cheap 2-port card and trying the 14th drive on that card, same issue.

So I'm thinking it's an issue with the PSU or Mobo. Niether is very convenient to replace so any help narrowing down the issue would be appreciated.

 

System:

Mobo: ASUS M4A78L-M - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131608

SATA Card: AOC-SASLP-MV8 - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=37999

Power Supply: CORSAIR 400W - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008

CPU: AMD Sempron 140 - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103698

I've got 13 drives in my array right now - 6 on the mobo and 7 on an AOC-SASLP-MV8. When I go to add a 14th drive (last connection on the SASLP) my system won't boot, requesting me to "insert bootable media, and restart" (something to that effect).

Usually this issue is because it's trying to boot from something other than the USB but I've got my BIOS setup to solve this (forced FDD, top boot priority) and the last 13 drive additions went fine.

I've ruled out the sata card by buying a cheap 2-port card and trying the 14th drive on that card, same issue.

So I'm thinking it's an issue with the PSU or Mobo. Niether is very convenient to replace so any help narrowing down the issue would be appreciated.

 

System:

Mobo: ASUS M4A78L-M - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131608

SATA Card: AOC-SASLP-MV8 - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=37999

Power Supply: CORSAIR 400W - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008

CPU: AMD Sempron 140 - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103698

 

Maybe try a BIOS update, I had what sounds like a similar problem awhile back, see here, http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11568.msg110155#msg110155

 

it worked for me.

I've got 13 drives in my array right now - 6 on the mobo and 7 on an AOC-SASLP-MV8. When I go to add a 14th drive (last connection on the SASLP) my system won't boot, requesting me to "insert bootable media, and restart" (something to that effect).

Usually this issue is because it's trying to boot from something other than the USB but I've got my BIOS setup to solve this (forced FDD, top boot priority) and the last 13 drive additions went fine.

I've ruled out the sata card by buying a cheap 2-port card and trying the 14th drive on that card, same issue.

So I'm thinking it's an issue with the PSU or Mobo. Niether is very convenient to replace so any help narrowing down the issue would be appreciated.

 

System:

Mobo: ASUS M4A78L-M - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131608

SATA Card: AOC-SASLP-MV8 - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=37999

Power Supply: CORSAIR 400W - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139008

CPU: AMD Sempron 140 - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103698

 

Maybe try a BIOS update, I had what sounds like a similar problem awhile back, see here, http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11568.msg110155#msg110155

 

it worked for me.

Others have had success by disabling int-13 on the add-on cards.

I've had a similar problem with a MoBo.

 

The bios doesn't boot on USB if more than 12 disks were presents.

If it's the same, I simply disable the mobo sata disks from the bios (if it's automatic only you're out of luck).

Unraid doesn't have any problem using those, and I was enable to use the system with 18 disks connected.

 

 

Well after updating the bios and getting the settings back to normal, the system won't even boot with the 13 drives as before (insert proper boot device error)

 

I also tried disabling all the hdd's as 642 suggested, no luck.

 

Joe, how would I 'disable int-13' on the addon cards? didn't see any option named that in the bios.

 

One thing I did notice in the bios is that it only lists 12 boot devices so i'm thinking that may be an issue.

I figure I'll just pick up a good supermicro board soon as I need more storage than this board has slots for anyway.

Look HERE

Success

 

This thread was what finally did it for me. I got into the saslp cofiguration settings w/ crtl+m (never knew I could do this  ) found a 'int13' setting as Joe mentioned above, disabled it, and now I'm booting with 14 drives without issue. Thanks!!