2 of 6 hdd's not recognized in bios

[pieter-jan goeman]

Hello guys,

I've got a problem while setting up my freenas server..
I'm using a supermicro X7DWN+ motherboard,
16 gigs of ecc ram, 2 xeon cpu's,
and 6 * 2 TB hdd's.
but when go to my bios, I see this:

IDE channel 0 master none
IDE channel 0 slave none
SATA port 0 2000 GB
SATA port 1 2000 GB
SATA port 2 2000 GB
SATA port 3 2000 GB

this is with parallel ata enabled,
serial ata enabled,
sata controller mode option: enhanced
sata raid disabled
sata ahci disabled - when I enable this, all disks show "none" instead of 2000 GB

I have got no idea how to solve this, anyone an idea,

thanks!

 

[Ericloewe]

sata ahci disabled

Enable AHCI, for starters.

As for why two drives are missing, the following options come to mind:

• Bad disks
• bad cables
• bad SATA controller

So, try moving the drives around and replacing the cables, to track down the cause of the problem.

 

[pieter-jan goeman]

Hello,

sorry,
I forgot to mention that I already dit this, I switched sata and power cables around,
and also this, when I put the raid option on enabled,
when I boot, before the bios comes up, I can see a screen where the disks detected are showed, and there, I do see them all ...
but when I go further to bios, I see only 4 of them...

also, when I enable ahci, I don't see them at all...
also, I tried all disks on a windows machine, they all work...

 

[Ericloewe]

If FreeNAS detects the drives and they work fine, ignore the stupid BIOS.