orangechrome Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) UnRAID Basic License - 6.8.2 Motherboard: GA-970A-D3P Detailed drive information for the 4 working drives in attached text file Having troubles adding a 5th hard drive on this motherboard: GA-970A-D3P (This is my first time trying to get this many drives running on this machine) Motherboard Manual: https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_ga-970a-d3p_e.pdf What makes this slightly more complicated is that I had previously had this hard drive in the array and replaced it with a bigger hard drive. Long story short, a saw a few hints Because of this, I was trying to access the super.dat file to remove the entry manually but it appears to be encrypted or I'm stupid. I now believe this is due to an AHCI controller/driver problem because I don't even see the hard drive on the host (see attached text file for drives). I don't have a large amount of experience with this but I googled quite a bit to try and determine which controller that is on the motherboard but no luck. Do I need to run this script (or something similar) to get it to work or is this a simple BIOS change? I don't have access to the BIOS right now because I don't have a keyboard, gfx card or monitor, but I will run and get them all if we're thinking this is the culprit. AHCI Problems.txt Edited March 27, 2020 by orangechrome Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 These chipsets have a separate BIOS setting for SATA ports 5/6, set them to AHCI, they have known issues in IDE mode. Quote Link to comment
orangechrome Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 It appears there is no "AHCI" Specific setting. They were set to As Sata Type but I tried switching them back and forth anyways. I also tried disabling IOMMU because I read elsewhere on the forums that people have seen issues arise because of that. Any other ideas? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 Set them as SATA as post diags after boot. Quote Link to comment
orangechrome Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 I apologize for my ignorance... I don't know how to do that or what that means. I just swapped the SATA Cable out, also tried port 5, same results. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 After booting to Unraid go to Tools -> Diagnostics and attach the zip. Quote Link to comment
orangechrome Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 Thank you. tower-diagnostics-20200327-1221.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 All 6 ports are set to AHCI, you appear to be having flash drive issues: Mar 27 10:12:21 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 UNKNOWN(0x2003) Result: hostbyte=0x00 driverbyte=0x08 Mar 27 10:12:21 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 Sense Key : 0x3 [current] Mar 27 10:12:21 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 ASC=0x11 ASCQ=0x0 Mar 27 10:12:21 Tower kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] tag#0 CDB: opcode=0x28 28 00 01 dd 14 20 00 00 01 00 Mar 27 10:12:21 Tower kernel: print_req_error: critical medium error, dev sda, sector 31265824 Quote Link to comment
orangechrome Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 The flash may be going bad, I had to pull the config directory from a backup in the middle of all this. Would you recommend using a different flash drive or scanning for bad sectors? All 6 ports being set to AHCI is the desired setting, correct? Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 27, 2020 Share Posted March 27, 2020 11 minutes ago, orangechrome said: Would you recommend using a different flash drive or scanning for bad sectors? You could try reformatting that one first, if still issues then replace. 11 minutes ago, orangechrome said: All 6 ports being set to AHCI is the desired setting, correct? Yep Quote Link to comment
orangechrome Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 (edited) WOW - I believe this is actually a drive issue. Started a "non-quick" format to be thorough and in the mean time started troubleshooting the drive issues: Switched this drive into one of the slots of the working drives (SATA0 thru 3 don't remember which one) but the BIOS still didn't recognize it. Please don't close this thread yet, I will check in with final resolution. Thanks for all the help so far! Edit: Also - apologies for wasting time on a stupid issue Edited March 27, 2020 by orangechrome Quote Link to comment
orangechrome Posted March 27, 2020 Author Share Posted March 27, 2020 This is resolved. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment
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