From owner-freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Fri Jan 27 05:05:12 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-geom@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79A8CC3C5E for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:05:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from octavianh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qt0-x233.google.com (mail-qt0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::233]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 83D389CB; Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:05:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from octavianh@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qt0-x233.google.com with SMTP id k15so114905780qtg.3; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:05:12 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=rRZzaodD22fGWfoLoVHRePseZCP7B14yiwLWbs1dr0w=; b=HQTVkkPQr34lPpSIpYEdK06QTacdzl/mqImZK1AQp+04ydevp3PAHPI2iYP6XE4RCD 5BTa4ItlMuYLWnA0136388uWKjfWMonBCI4jpkGlFNoDHngPY/CEaR3RVaAHyrGVpZLA vIRZ5UdEYzGjCKZIZNybNmk4mVdHNTv+iUV8zlPVLZpmUM465mYCdQofLEM0ZyMaMKEd I+UCqOOvd+hyRbPKUItEtxAefg4E72CW42qTcDc457TWHTmfsJed/Ot/V83O1alpJ2sE y7eYB9WDAn3esqiHwPdEtTCRUnXputi+K6XZLkRZbu7XFySizkP2/U7X0sG3U42P1HSW SHRg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=rRZzaodD22fGWfoLoVHRePseZCP7B14yiwLWbs1dr0w=; b=e5043vzhbaEOby6j7izVW5SfsvfrefjzI8ki3VaROjTTmYim7h32P7X+X41FGYmC30 4YIUzS1MuzM/97qjVSpEzAtxgYUhrDPbKUQ+5L+zZR7F1nyvt4066xcUFwqKkPeDcuVz O7GfpJS4Z4Nc2wvVM3UKGTEIpqV5yzwGWDsd+GSM22XvdQ1iDNSf2ZsIDCv3L8mFVGaK WMQyGtc2/t+i9cRBR6jmbB762RlCj6Wgbe4I+auXtjkqR+1vIegIAeu9IkMQpRsc7p9e otJ2DBCFO1MkujMtOHDc/8+e0f10vJXzXUT69sKEyIytUabi2ExMw7hioQC+XukZ7Ldr FAHQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AIkVDXJ90VgEzIytbViHzVf//WBVX5MTmKQxx40o2bWm2RUFFpuGe0+hFkpSI4MMzluzecxh6NmoUHXoQfvwDw== X-Received: by 10.237.34.250 with SMTP id q55mr6574189qtc.127.1485493511680; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:05:11 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.140.82.49 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:05:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: From: Octavian Hornoiu Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:05:11 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: AHCI Issues with WDC Black drives and GEOM_MIRROR To: Andriy Gapon Cc: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: GEOM-specific discussions and implementations List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2017 05:05:12 -0000 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 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 >