April 9, 201214 yr Built my first Unraid server and it booted fine to the tower login. Logged in to GUI fine but under the devices tab non of my hard drives are shown on the devices tab Any ideas Spec is:- Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H67MA-USB3-B3 CPI - I3 RAM - 8GB Hard drives (all SATA) 2 x Western Digital WD20EARX-00PASB0 (2TB) 4 x Samsung ST2000DL003-9VT166 (2TB) ANTEC 1200 case syslog_10_Apr.txt
April 9, 201214 yr Does the bios see the drives? What power supply are you using? Looks like drives are not seen by unRaid at all. Connector issue either sata or power. Make sure controller is not disabled in bios.
April 9, 201214 yr I'm no unRaid expert, but since you haven't gotten any other responses I'll throw out some ideas. I don't see any evidence of hard disks being recognized in your syslog. When your system boots are there any messages indicating that drives are recognized? I assume the drives are all attached to motherboard SATA ports. Boot into your system's BIOS settings and make sure the SATA ports are enabled. If your system supports hardware RAID, that should be disabled in BIOS. For best performance you want the SATA ports configured for AHCI mode. Hope this helps!
April 9, 201214 yr I don't see any SATA ports in the syslog, so how can there be harddisk? Are BIOS-settings for the SATA-ports correct?
April 10, 201214 yr Author Yes all drives are connected to motherboard SATA ports BIOS can see them all I have scoured the BIOS settings and cannot see any setting related to switching SATA ports on or off or RAID I'll look again Thanks for the suggestions so far
April 10, 201214 yr Author The drives are definitely recognized by the bios and by default it set them to IDE mode. I've tried tried setting the SATA controller for AHCI mode. Although the are recognized differently by the bios now they still aren't seen by UNRAID The disk are brand new, as far as I know unformatted. Do I need to do any preparation of them first? In answer to some other questions - tried plugging connector in and out - no change - the power supply is an OCZ ZS series 600W supply Regards Dave
April 10, 201214 yr If the bios sees the drives unRaid should as well. I did a quick search but have not found anyone running a h67 board. Is the USB drive new? Maybe try 4.7 on a different thumb drive just to see if drives show up then.
April 10, 201214 yr I didn't look to see what version you are running in your syslog. did you try the latest beta? it is possible 4.7 does not have support for your hardware.
April 10, 201214 yr I'm almost 100% certain that as Johnm mentioned, your chipset isn't properly supported by 4.7, which according to your syslog you are running - try 5.0 b14 or something and see how you go. The H67 chipset is only a year and a bit old (January 2011 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets) and the kernel in 4.7 is 2 (?) or so years old. BQ
April 10, 201214 yr Author Thanks for the help guys Went for 5.0-beta14 and drives are recognised and array is online Thanks again
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