I had an unraid server running on an old Dell Optiplex GX280 with 3 drives. I bought a new case, PSU, and motherboard. I just put everything together and put the drives I was using before in the new machine and fired it up and got all kinds of errors. After the first boot attempt I noticed that I did not have the drives in the correct order according to the bios, I fixed that but still have all kinds of errors in unraid including my drives not being found. I installed the drives in the first 3 Sata ports. I am planning on adding 4 more drives but after I get this mess figured out.

 

Here is the main screen showing the drives that I had before but are now missing:

 

 

 

As you can see I have no drives to select:

 

 

I have attached a copy of my syslog if someone would be so kind as to tell me what I am doing wrong 

 

 

Do the drives show up correctly in the bios post screens?

 

Have you configured the drives (in bios) to use AHCI?

 

 

First off....thanks for replying.

 

Yes they do show in the post screen but there is nowhere to specify if they use AHCI or not. One though I just has was to update the bios...trying to find which version it is.

By default, the drives are in Legacy IDE mode. You have to manually switch two of the controllers (Intel and JMicron) to AHCI mode in the BIOS. I've found this post to be very helpful.

Thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!!

 

I found the AHCI section and it worked!!

 

 

Thanks to both of you and thanks for the link ilovejedd.

I noticed a number of problems in your syslog, some of which were probably fixed by changing the BIOS settings.  The other issues might be improved by a BIOS upgrade.  Other Abit AB9 Pro users found it helped.  Two related forum threads:  here and here

Ok thanks Rob will try.

 

If it's ok can I re-post my log again once I make the changes??? None of it make sense to me 

Sure.  Happy to help any way I can.

 

By the way, the Unmenu Syslog viewer is still a work in progress, but is slowly becoming more and more useful, for highlighting issues, and for making more sense of the syslog.  The newest version has not been released yet.

Thanks!!!

 

An yeah I have been using Unmenu for a little while now.....it's great!!!