Coop73 Posted April 30, 2016 Share #1 Posted April 30, 2016 Hello, I am fairly new to xpenology and am having an issue. I have 8 hdd ranging in sizes (2 6tb, 3 3tb, 3 2tb). I am using a asrock fm2a88m-hd+ motherboard (8 sata3 6gbs ports). 4gb ram. I don't have an issue with getting xpenology to boot, but all I have every been able to get it to read is 4 hdd. No matter how I plug in the drives. I have run dmesg from a shh link, and all it sees is up to ata4. Is there something I am missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbv3000 Posted April 30, 2016 Share #2 Posted April 30, 2016 it might be that xpe drivers only 'see' 4 of the bolton d4 sata controller channels. I've had some six sata port amd based mobos that only the first 4 show up. you could try changing the drive type to ide/legacy rather than ahci, disable any raid mode and hot plug settings (if they exist). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop73 Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share #3 Posted May 1, 2016 Thanks, I have checked bios settings, and all seem to be correct. I have changed the bios to ide and disabled all extras. Bios shows all 8 drives. Still no luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop73 Posted May 1, 2016 Author Share #4 Posted May 1, 2016 Well it is definitely a mobo or bios issue. I just bought a 4 port pcie sata card and it now shows all 8 hdds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gronaldo Posted May 3, 2016 Share #5 Posted May 3, 2016 I have this board running with 6 drives, no issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coop73 Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share #6 Posted May 6, 2016 Thanks to Gronaldo, It was just a setting in bios. I switched the bios to ACHI (read in another post that it was not supported so I never tried it), disabled the SATA IDE combined mode, rebooted and it showed all 8 drives. I then reinstalled the 4 port SATA pcie card and now I have the ability to run 12 drives. Thanks To All Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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