Occasional Missing Disk with Silicon Image 3132

[okolowicz]

I'm a little stumped here and hoping someone can help troubleshoot. I just installed a new mobo (Supermicro X8SIL-F-O) and the single disk I have connected to a Silicon Image SIL3132 PCIe card showed up as missing. I tried reseating the card and changing the SATA cable to no avail. Once I moved the card to a different slot it started working again and I thought my problem was solved. Lo and behold, earlier this evening after a reboot it showed as missing again. I am getting ready to reseat it and see if I can get it working again but I am perplexed why this has been happening. It never happened on my previous motherboard (Biostar A760G M2+).

 

Can anyone think of a reason why this might be happening and/or, anything else I should be testing? My next step would be to try a new card but since that will take a few days to arrive I'm hoping someone has some other idea to test.

 

Thanks in advance

[Camel]

Sounds like you are not setup for using UnRaid if you only have one drive.

 

Not sure why you would use a separate controller card if you have onboard sata. But I would check your bios (including your separate controller card) to make sure any raid settings are 'off'.

 

http://www.lime-technology.com/support/unraid-server-installation

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=FAQ

http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Building_an_unRAID_Server

 

Supermicro is a better board with more to configure.

 

Always back up your data (image and/or file replication on separate storage) before you make any changes within bios or raid config.

 

Hope this helps