I've run into an issue with unRAID detecting my HDDs.

I decided it would be a good idea to go ahead and preclear my HDDs while waiting on my Norco SS-500.  I noticed when I first set up unRAID to make sure that it would work from the flash drive that after typing the command "dmesg|grep SATA|grep link" it's only seeing 4 SATA controllers for some reason.. This mobo has 5 and 1 eSATA (which should work as an additional SATA port from what I read). Even if we exlude the eSATA port, it's not even seeing the 5th SATA port.

 

*EDIT* Currently running unRAID version 5.0-beta14 / Motherboard - Foxconn A88GMV http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186205

- Attached Sys Log as well.

 

This is what I'm seeing with 3 HDDs currently hooked up -

 

ata3: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

ata1: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 300)

ata4: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)

 

Neither eSATA or ata5 are showing up.  So I intentionally hooked one drive to the eSATA to see if it would be detected and another drive to SATA5 to see if it would then populate.  If I can't use the eSATA port, that's not a huge deal, but I'll definitely need the SATA5 port to be working.

 

When booting up, all three drives are recognized in the bios. I can also hear them all spinning so I know they're working.

 

Yet when I take a look at devices under the "Main" tab on the unRAID Web Management page I'm seeing all three of the drives...

 

 

Any ideas? Should I ignore the fact that unRAID doesn't detect the drives on the machine running unRAID yet I can see the drives clearly in the Web Management page on another PC?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Hyp

Sys_Log.txt

Ok, so after digging around in the bios it turns out I wasn't set to AHCI which fixed two of my three drives as being detected as IDE.  I also noticed a SATA IDE Combined mode that was enabled. I disabled that and resolved my other issue of unRAID only recognizing 4 of my 6 SATA ports.