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Takkie1970
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 Posted: Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:48 pm Post subject: asus p8h67-M-LE bios trouble |
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Hi,
New here one this forum. Used the seach but could not finfd answers.
I have a MB as stated above with a I3 2100 cpu, 4 gb transcend sdram and 3 WD sata drives.
Want to use this hardware to build an unraid server. Problem is that although I see HD's in bios, I cannot see them in linux.
Strange thing is that I cannot switch from ide mode to AHCI mode in this efi bios. Am using latest version but changing from ide is greyed out. Am I overlooking something, switched sata ports. No joy. Does anyone know what else I can try?
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Mr T
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Welcome to the motherboards.org...
What size and type (SATAI,SATAII or SATAIII) are the hard drives?
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evasive
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Is that a rev 3.0 board? otherwise this could be one of the flawed Cougar point chips causing all sorts of trouble.
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Takkie1970
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| Mr T wrote: | Welcome to the motherboards.org...
What size and type (SATAI,SATAII or SATAIII) are the hard drives? |
Thank you for welcoming me.
They're (2) WD10EVDS drives and (1) WD15EADS drive.
Hope this helps, I have a HBA and when I plug them in there I can see them in linux aswell. So I am more and more thinking in the dirtection of the bios. But I could be wrong, maybe it is cables? |
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Takkie1970
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| evasive wrote: | | Is that a rev 3.0 board? otherwise this could be one of the flawed Cougar point chips causing all sorts of trouble. |
No it is a Rev 3.0 board. |
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Mr T
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Also forgot to ask waht linux distro are you using...? If it is an older kernel, it may have issues with the SATA controller or larger sized drives...
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Takkie1970
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| Mr T wrote: | | Also forgot to ask waht linux distro are you using...? If it is an older kernel, it may have issues with the SATA controller or larger sized drives... |
Am using (at leat that was the plan) unraid wich is a slimmed down slackwaredistro especially used for media streaming. They should support these sized drives. In the newer beta versions it shoudl even support 3 and 4 Gb drives.
Ubuntu 11.1 did not show any drives except the usb flash cardreader used as startup for unraid. Do not know if you are familiar with unraid?
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Mr T
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No I am not familiar with unRAID, not a distro I have needed to use.. From what you are saying, it looks like an issue between the motherboard and hard drives... I would
Clear the CMOS and set the BIOS up again
Change the SATA cables
Try 1 drive at a time
Also is your PSU up too it...? For what you are doing, 500w minimum...
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Takkie1970
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| Mr T wrote: | No I am not familiar with unRAID, not a distro I have needed to use.. From what you are saying, it looks like an issue between the motherboard and hard drives... I would
Clear the CMOS and set the BIOS up again
Change the SATA cables
Try 1 drive at a time
Also is your PSU up too it...? For what you are doing, 500w minimum... |
Will try that, clearing CMOS it is probably a dipswitch?, will check manual.
Will try one drive at the time. Hope this helps. Ta for the help. In one day I have had more response from this forum than other forums I asked for help, thank you. |
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You are welcome, you are lucky I am not working today..... 
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