I am in the process of replacing a failed SATA DOM (SSD) device (after about 1.5 years of use). This did not leave a real positive impression of that technology so I decided to just replace it with a more conventional SSD drive.
After following the instructions on https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.2/install.html , I was able to install a fresh copy of OS to a new inexpensive 120GB PNY SSD drive. This all worked as expected.
Where I am stuck, the ASRrock C2750D4I motherboard refuses to recognize the new SSD device as a boot option. When trying to set the boot device in UEFI/BIOS settings I am presented with one of the disks in the (4 disk) data array and the UEFI option, no PNY disk (see attached Boot Opitons.jpg). Oh, it does recognize a USB device as well, but refuses to present a SATA3 disk as a boot option.
I have tried a number of different storage settings, aka changing the Marvell settings, installing the OS with the BIOS option rather then UEFI and in all cases, end up in the same place .. OS installs without issue, can not select volume to boot from.
As things stand I have a clean (aka formatted) install using UEFI option in the Freenas installer and selecting the new PNY device.
At of writing this, the following UEFI settings seemed correct (in so far as not working and correct go: ( ):
Marvell 9230 - Enabled, Yes Boot to SATAIII_Mo^M3(UEFI Driver)
Marvell 9172 - AHCI Mode, Yes Boot to SATAIII_Mo^M3(UEFI Driver)
So, suspect I am missing something..
Heading out to buy a new SATA6 cable (real doubtful that will help) and a new SATADOM disk in case this SSD endeavor fails (yea can pay 2x for less reliability .. but, its small)
After following the instructions on https://www.ixsystems.com/documentation/freenas/11.2/install.html , I was able to install a fresh copy of OS to a new inexpensive 120GB PNY SSD drive. This all worked as expected.
Where I am stuck, the ASRrock C2750D4I motherboard refuses to recognize the new SSD device as a boot option. When trying to set the boot device in UEFI/BIOS settings I am presented with one of the disks in the (4 disk) data array and the UEFI option, no PNY disk (see attached Boot Opitons.jpg). Oh, it does recognize a USB device as well, but refuses to present a SATA3 disk as a boot option.
I have tried a number of different storage settings, aka changing the Marvell settings, installing the OS with the BIOS option rather then UEFI and in all cases, end up in the same place .. OS installs without issue, can not select volume to boot from.
As things stand I have a clean (aka formatted) install using UEFI option in the Freenas installer and selecting the new PNY device.
At of writing this, the following UEFI settings seemed correct (in so far as not working and correct go: ( ):
Marvell 9230 - Enabled, Yes Boot to SATAIII_Mo^M3(UEFI Driver)
Marvell 9172 - AHCI Mode, Yes Boot to SATAIII_Mo^M3(UEFI Driver)
So, suspect I am missing something..
Heading out to buy a new SATA6 cable (real doubtful that will help) and a new SATADOM disk in case this SSD endeavor fails (yea can pay 2x for less reliability .. but, its small)