I put the 4 disks of a Synology DS410 into an Xpenology box running the latest loader via USB stick. This Xpenology box had previously been running the latest Synology DSM using different disks that I migrated to a DS1515+. I expected the Xpenology box to boot up and either report the 4 disks from the DS410 migratable, or not, and deal with it. But it did a third thing I did not anticipate. As the Xpenology machine goes through loading the BIOS and doing the SATA disk scan, it just pauses during the SATA disk detection scan. It does not reach the Xpenology loader on the USB stick.
I tried:
- disconnecting all drives: boots to Xpenology boot loader
- reconnecting each drive one at a time: SATA scan hangs
- connecting an unrelated spare drive: boots to Xpenology boot loader
So I've ruled out stuff like misconnected cables. It's almost like the drives which used to be in the DS410 are confusing the SATA detection routine. For what it's worth this is a Gigabyte 5 series mobo, a GA-EX58-UD3R with a core i7-930 CPU. Again, this same hardware has for months been running Xpenology/DSM with different disks.
Anyone have any thoughts on why WD 2TB Red drives that used to be in a working DS410 would fail to be detected cleanly by the BIOS of a GA-EX58-UD3R board? I guess my next step is to use USB drive mounting hardware to mount and reformat each drive from my laptop. I just hate to do that, wouldn't mind migrating the data.
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I put the 4 disks of a Synology DS410 into an Xpenology box running the latest loader via USB stick. This Xpenology box had previously been running the latest Synology DSM using different disks that I migrated to a DS1515+. I expected the Xpenology box to boot up and either report the 4 disks from the DS410 migratable, or not, and deal with it. But it did a third thing I did not anticipate. As the Xpenology machine goes through loading the BIOS and doing the SATA disk scan, it just pauses during the SATA disk detection scan. It does not reach the Xpenology loader on the USB stick.
I tried:
- disconnecting all drives: boots to Xpenology boot loader
- reconnecting each drive one at a time: SATA scan hangs
- connecting an unrelated spare drive: boots to Xpenology boot loader
So I've ruled out stuff like misconnected cables. It's almost like the drives which used to be in the DS410 are confusing the SATA detection routine. For what it's worth this is a Gigabyte 5 series mobo, a GA-EX58-UD3R with a core i7-930 CPU. Again, this same hardware has for months been running Xpenology/DSM with different disks.
Anyone have any thoughts on why WD 2TB Red drives that used to be in a working DS410 would fail to be detected cleanly by the BIOS of a GA-EX58-UD3R board? I guess my next step is to use USB drive mounting hardware to mount and reformat each drive from my laptop. I just hate to do that, wouldn't mind migrating the data.
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