pm1961 Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 It's kinda Unraid related........... Once I had my empty shucked cases, I thought I'd put an old drive (non WD) in each of the cases for my sons to use on their desks. Long story short, I can't get windows to recognise the disk when it's in the case via it's USB controller. I've tried both USB 2 & 3 slots. It eventually comes up with a "Fatal controller error" message. I've tried both exFAT and NTFS as formats. The disks work fine on the end of a SATA cable inside the pc. Does anyone know if those boards/cases are crippled only to accept WD disks? TIA Paul Quote Link to comment
whipdancer Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 I've repurposed a couple with drives I pulled out of my server. They all work. Can you just attach the USB/Sata adapter directly to the drive (not in the case), plug in the power and see if it works? Quote Link to comment
pm1961 Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share Posted October 19, 2020 Yep, done all that. If I just plug in the USB adaptor alone, W10 device manager sees a "WD Mybook" listed under disks, whether it's got a physical disk on it or not. If I plug in the 8TB WD disk that came with it, all is well...... If I plug in any, otherwise working HD, I just get an IO hardware error... It's bizarre... never seen anything like it.... Quote Link to comment
Decto Posted October 19, 2020 Share Posted October 19, 2020 (edited) 45 minutes ago, pm1961 said: Yep, done all that. If I just plug in the USB adaptor alone, W10 device manager sees a "WD Mybook" listed under disks, whether it's got a physical disk on it or not. If I plug in the 8TB WD disk that came with it, all is well...... If I plug in any, otherwise working HD, I just get an IO hardware error... It's bizarre... never seen anything like it.... I think the Mybook uses some type of onboard drive encryption. I have a few of these about my desk from shucking, just tried a Mybook board, no joy with a couple of drives. A board from an elements 8TB drive works fine with either which confirms it's a hardware issue. It may be that the board looks for a drive feature relating to encryption, however that's just a guess. I tried to clear ot in WDtools and that also fails. Smart data looks OK, but you can't delete or create partitions. Edited October 19, 2020 by Decto Quote Link to comment
pm1961 Posted October 19, 2020 Author Share Posted October 19, 2020 Thanks for trying! It's a small relief that I've not finally lost the plot............... Quote Link to comment
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