A newbie here, so apologies if I make this needlessly too long or use the wrong terms.
This will be a long story (TL;DR at the bottom) - it all started last week by me adding a new 6TB drive to my baremetal build and connecting it to the sata 2 port on my motherboard (that's the 3rd port and it's only 3Gb/s but that's still plenty for me) and whatever I tried the system didn't recognize the drive attached. I was already thinking that I received a DOA drive. I also thought maybe I don't even have enough power for the drive (using a molex splitter and a sata splitter, I'll get a better PSU).
Anyways, I took my trusty external USB3 hdd case and confirmed that the new drive is indeed alive and kicking on my desktop PC.
So next thing was to connect the new drive into one of the already used sata ports - and it worked. Of course this got my volume degraded, so first it needed to rebuild itself on a new drive, then adding a new (old)drive - it was doing that for a good 3-4 days lol
I also had to destroy my SSD cache volumes to be able to use the new drive.
TLDR I added a drive, connected to the 3Gbs sata ports on my MB and it wasn't recognized. Had to do some silly cable juggling to make it work, but it's still not fine.
So my question is: do I have to make a new DSM build every time when I add a new drive or why aren't the two sata slots on my MB recognized?
How should I update my DSM to the latest and be able to use the sata 2 & 3 slots for my HDDS (I'm planning to add another drive)
Baremetal system on GA-H81M-S2PV-rev-10 motherboard with i3 and 4gb ram and HBA (8 Port SATA III PCE-e 2.0 x2 Card - SI-PEX40071 ) that has a sata multiplier.
Currently has 5x 6TB WD Red working (connected to sata 0 & 1 and the last three connectors on the HBA). 2 liteon SSDs for read/write cache disconnected
I used tinycore redpill 0.8 and DS918+ DSM 7.1-42661 Update 1
Additional question: is there a way to use all 8 ports on my HBA successfully?