FlyingTexan Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 I was having an issue with a drive that appeared to be bad. So I swapped out the old 8TB for a 14TB drive. I also swapped out the cables to the HBA card. Now when I boot I can't see any new drive. I've ordered several drives for a rebuild I'm doing later this week. Thinking the new drive I'd put in was faulty I swapped it with another new drive and still it doesn't see anything. Is it possible for a HBA card to have a bad slot on one of the cables? Like where it attaches to the card itself? Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted February 19, 2023 Share Posted February 19, 2023 I hope you did NOT try to format the emulated unmountable drive as that would wipe its contents and update parity to reflect this has been done. Quote Link to comment
FlyingTexan Posted February 19, 2023 Author Share Posted February 19, 2023 I don't particularly care about that I want to add the new drive. Quote Link to comment
FlyingTexan Posted February 20, 2023 Author Share Posted February 20, 2023 For anyone that may find this in the future. It would appear that some newer drives, like my Ultrastars, have new functionality that requires a signal on the 3.3v. To combat this you can simply take a small piece of electrical tape and put it over the first three pins on the power Sata connector to block the 3.3v connection. I just tested this on six drives including the one I put in the server today. They fired right up. Since I’m migrating to a build that will utilize backplanes I’m unsure if they need it there or not. However my advice here is to see if your drive needs to mod the 3.3v rails. Quote Link to comment
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