• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Can't detect other 48 HDDs

J

Jon855

[H]ard DCOTM January 2008
2FA
Joined
Aug 25, 2005
Messages
12,132
I'm running a backblaze 4u pod

12x Sunrise s-331 backplates run by 3x A-540 sata cards

Plugged all in with 4TBs and only 12 is detected. None else are detected. Any guess as to why?

60x 4TB WD RED plugged in
12 detected
48 others are not showing up
 
If you are running a 60 drive pod it means you have 12 5 drive port multipliers. It sounds like your OS is only picking up the first drive in each of the port multipliers and not the whole stack. Both your sunrich devices are “Backblaze compliant” in their documentation. What OS are you using? Do you have the proper Drivers (depending on your OS?)
 
Last edited:
mwroobel said:
If you are running a 60 drive pod it means you have 12 5 drive port multipliers. It sounds like your OS is only picking up the first drive in each of the port multipliers and not the whole stack. Both your sunrich devices are “Backblaze compliant” in their documentation. What OS are you using? Do you have the proper Drivers (depending on your OS?)
Click to expand...
Presently am running Windows 10 Pro on the pod.

I was thinking the same thing that the first HD would be only detected and not the rest.
 
Unfortunately, Windows 10 seems not to support the port multipliers functionality of your card with the Standard AHCI driver (which is what is currently probably loading.) Per the Sunrich website it doesn’t seem that your card is a current card anymore and per the Arrow website it only supports up to Windows 8. My suggestion would be to contact Sunrich and see if they have a Windows driver that will work with their HBA and their port multipliers in Windows 10. The pod design hardware and software support was designed for Linux from the ground up and I have never heard/read of anyone running them successfully on a consumer Windows OS.
 
mwroobel said:
Unfortunately, Windows 10 seems not to support the port multipliers functionality of your card with the Standard AHCI driver (which is what is currently probably loading.) Per the Sunrich website it doesn’t seem that your card is a current card anymore and per the Arrow website it only supports up to Windows 8. My suggestion would be to contact Sunrich and see if they have a Windows driver that will work with their HBA and their port multipliers in Windows 10. The pod design hardware and software support was designed for Linux from the ground up and I have never heard/read of anyone running them successfully on a consumer Windows OS.
Click to expand...

Motherboard support Windows 10 64.
I've got the drivers downloaded from backuppods.com [https://www.dropbox.com/s/ss76xqjk21oe83z/1.2.0.1047_multiphase-whql.zip?dl=0] and it appears to be the A-520 drivers in which does supports 10 and the readme file indicated that as well.
I've got the drivers installed and now after rebooting - no drives are showing beyond the boot drive... This is getting weird...
 
Your motherboard isn’t the issue. The issue is if the Win10 AHCI driver supports your SATA card/ SATA port multiplier combination. You said you have an A-540, which the A-520 drivers may (or may not as seems to be the case) work. As I suggested above your best course of action if]s contacting Sunrich and see if they have a driver that will work. My next suggestion would be to dump Win10 on that box and install a *nix variant where you can support redundant storage (which with this kind of enclosure and number of drives I expect you want) with good throughput and no additional out of pocket costs.
 
mwroobel said:
Your motherboard isn’t the issue. The issue is if the Win10 AHCI driver supports your SATA card/ SATA port multiplier combination. You said you have an A-540, which the A-520 drivers may (or may not as seems to be the case) work. As I suggested above your best course of action if]s contacting Sunrich and see if they have a driver that will work. My next suggestion would be to dump Win10 on that box and install a *nix variant where you can support redundant storage (which with this kind of enclosure and number of drives I expect you want) with good throughput and no additional out of pocket costs.
Click to expand...
I will shoot off an email to Sunrich and Backuppods both regarding the drivers for A-540 and the S-331 backplates.

The drivers was provided via Backuppods and it is noted within the files that windows 10 is supported. I'll try to compound on this a bit more in the email.

Right now, I'm going to run a live-usb of a linux variant, something simple and hopefully I'll be able to see all the HDDs. The biggest thing for me is that they have to be NTFS and also I'll need to be able to mine on them so yes I'll need Windows and not Linux for the most part but that's something I suppose I could always compile the source code for the miners / plotters and hope that they'll work... We'll see.
 
mwroobel - I took your suggestion and installed Ubtuntu LTS16.10 I was able to see all of the harddrives without any issues - although, it's taking me some time gparting them all into NTFS. I'll have to take a look at this at a different angle for my needs.

Thanks though.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top