Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:05:11 -0800 From: Octavian Hornoiu <octavianh@gmail.com> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AHCI Issues with WDC Black drives and GEOM_MIRROR Message-ID: <CAJ=a7VMDCDzN=opRUipqr5ULFpSRqaDm_w3FPeiiy9XnawXF7w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <aa436f84-5ea1-ef22-24d2-4aa7477a3ec3@FreeBSD.org> References: <CAJ=a7VNA4z08mAyEVk8T1QZ3FUKMzJmm0_v-VW5C0gX8FKTexA@mail.gmail.com> <aa436f84-5ea1-ef22-24d2-4aa7477a3ec3@FreeBSD.org>
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Thank Andriy, it appears my motherboard had a "IDE/SATA" compatibility mode which was enabled by default and i had no idea what the option meant but once i turned it off everything is showing up as AHCI. Thanks for your suggestion! Octavian On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 26/01/2017 00:59, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: > > OS: 10.3-RELEASE-p12 > > Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) SATA 6Gb/s > > USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard > > Memory: 16 GB RAM > > 6 Drives: 6x 1TB WD1001FALS (Caviar BLACK) > > > > I am having a strange issue where I have 6 drives attached to my > > motherboard and 4 of them are coming up as SATA 2.x and the others are > > coming up in a strange downgraded mode. The first 4 disks are always > shown > > as being normal and ada4/5 always have the strange configuration. I know > > the motherboard chipset is good and supports 7 drives of SATA 2/3 in any > > combination so I'm perplexed as to what the issue is. > > > > Why are drives 4 and 5 listed as being on bus ata0 and ata1 instead of > > ahcich4 and 5? > > Check your BIOS settings. Sometimes they have a separate IDE/AHCI knob > for the > last two channels. > > > -- > Andriy Gapon >
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