BLUF:  Fresh install of UnRAID V6.1.7 with no problems except it does not see any of the SATA drives.

During boot there are multiple "ata x.xx failed to identify (I/O Error err_mask=0x4)" on the console.

I can reboot into FreeNAS, NAS4Free, Ubuntu, or DOS and see the drives fine.  I have not loaded anything other than the base install.

 

Background:  Moving from FreeNAS V9.2 to UnRAID V6.1.7 as I was unhappy with the new hardware requirements for a home NAS by FreeNAS. I have four 3TB HDD that were in a ZFS pool. I removed them from the ZFS pool and wiped them. I then reformatted them into FAT32 with the intention of reformatting them again in UnRAID. The 'server' I am using is an old Gateway desktop with a Core2Duo processor and 4 SATA ports. When I boot UnRAID I can see multiple failure code, "ata x.xx failed to identify (I/O Error err_mask=0x4)" on the console for the SATA but I do not know what to do to correct the error. 

 

It just seems odd that 4 other OS's can see and mount the drives without issue. Am I missing a command or file?

 

System:  Gateway Core2Duo, 4MB RAM, 4x 3TB SATA HDDs.  I have wiped the drives and formatted them 3 times now.

 

 

tower-syslog-20160201-0218.zip

tower-diagnostics-20160201-0218.zip

Not necessary to attach syslog since it is included in diagnostics.

 

What exactly do you mean by wipe?

 

From the command line, what do you get with this?

lsblk

 

 

All I get is the sda USB stick.

 

And by wipe, I mean that I erased the drives, deleted the partition, then recreated the primary partition and formatted the drive as FAT32.

 

Check your bios if controller is set to ide/ahci mode,  unraid doesn’t support RAID mode.

And why do you have 3 partitions on the flash drive?

No idea. It had one then when I booted the others were created.

I had formatted the USB as a FAT32 and just copied the UnRAID files from the ZIP there per instructions. I haven't done anything else with the USB drive manually.

Check your bios if controller is set to ide/ahci mode,  unraid doesn’t support RAID mode.

 

  Thanks!

I missed Intel Support in the BIOS. I'm not sure when it was enabled, as I didn't use it before but it is an old computer and if I unplug it it thinks it is 2006 again.  Now the drives are showing.

 

PEBCAK..

No idea. It had one then when I booted the others were created.

I had formatted the USB as a FAT32 and just copied the UnRAID files from the ZIP there per instructions. I haven't done anything else with the USB drive manually.

When you booted what exactly? unRAID doesn't do this and I don't recommend it. In fact, if I am interpreting lsblk correctly, you have a large flash drive with 3 tiny partitions on it, too small really. Fix this also. You should only have one partition on flash. Just another unnecessary complication to screw things up.