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2nd HDD won't detect on cold boot

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Limp Gawd
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So I've just finished building a new PC for my uncle with a pair of Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB drives in RAID1 as secondary storage, and one of the drives is consistently failing to detect after a cold boot. The drive detects just fine after a reboot.

Here are the full system specs:

i5 4590
Asrock H97M Anniversary
16GB PNY DDR3 RAM
PNY CS1100 240GB SSD
2x 2TB Seagate Barracuda LP in RAID1
ASUS DRW-24B1ST DVD-RW
Corsair CS450M PSU
Cooler Master N200 Chassis
Windows 8.1 Pro 64

I've tried swapping the SATA cable and the port the drive is connected to on the motherboard. I've also already updated the motherboard's BIOS. No change.

After googling around a bit, I've found other people have had the same problem, such as here: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/346550-second-hard-drive-wont-show-up-until-restart/

I've previously tested both drives on another system and had no issues. My primary suspect is the motherboard, but overall I'm at a bit of a loss.

Anyone have experience with this kind of problem and able to help?
 
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You could try changing the HDD Delay or spin up time in the bios. It might just need an additional second to get rolling.
 
Second that, I have a 2TB WD black and if I don't delay by 5 seconds bios will complete without the drive being detected and recognized.
 
Yeah, I've just looked through the BIOS again and can't find any options like that. :|

Also, I derped in my initial post, it's the H97M Anniversary, not a Z97.
 
Sucky, have you turned off Fast boot and such. I'm betting anything you can do to slow down the boot process will help you out.
 
Yeah, fast boot is turned off. Unfortunately the RAID controller is the first thing to initialize, before even the BIOS. I'm not sure that would make a difference though, I think it was still failing to detect on a cold boot with AHCI enabled. :|
 
Well, I switched it back to AHCI and set up the RAID through Windows Disk Management instead of the motherboard controller, and it seems to be working now. It does still take considerably longer to load from a cold boot, just taking extra time to find that drive I assume.

Whatever, as long as it works. :p
 
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