SATA card/RAID trouble

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tacotaco

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I'm trying to setup a RAID system in an old Dell. I picked up a Rosewill RC-218 PCI-E SATA card, set the jumpers, and plugged in four 2TB drives. There is a fifth drive (the system drive) plugged directly into the motherboard.

The problem: I can only see four drives, SATA0 to SATA3.

Is it possible that's all the motherboard can support, despite the SATA card, or am I doing something wrong?

Any help is greatly appreciated.
 
The problem: I can only see four drives, SATA0 to SATA3.
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where do you only see this? BIOS? OS?

my guess is you are doing something wrong, but have failed to provide enough information to confirm this.
 
which 4 do you see? all on the card? 3 on the card + motherboard?

I'd first swap things around to verify all disks, sata cables, and ports on the motherboard/card are working.
 
greengolftee87 said:
which 4 do you see? all on the card? 3 on the card + motherboard?

I'd first swap things around to verify all disks, sata cables, and ports on the motherboard/card are working.
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The motherboard drive is listed as SATA3 and three of the four drives on the Rosewill card are SATA0, SATA1 and SATA2.

I'm seeing this in Webadmin. The machine is headless ubuntu server 10.04.1.

Swapping them around is a good idea. I'll give it a shot and report back.
 
After much delay I finally got back to my media server problem. After adding and dropping all the ports and drives I found the issue. The system crashes whenever my Samsung HD204U 2TB drive is plugged in. I hooked the drive to Windows 7, Ubuntu 10.10 desktop and Mac OS X 10.4 and all systems cannot recognize the drive ... Any idea what's going on? Perhaps I got a bunk drive? I have the drive in a SATA BlacX 5G dock. It's not even spinning. Same thing when it was hooked up to (and crashed) my Ubuntu 10.04 server--no visible sign of power ... :confused::confused::confused:
 
I don't suppose you'd mind booting from FreeBSD 8.1 and telling me if it detects that card? I'm on the hunt for a pci-e 4x card and I saw a FreeBSD developer commit support for the marvell chip that powers that card but I can't tell if he did it for FreeBSD-Current (9) or for Stable (8.1).

If you're still in the screwing around debugging phase, if not no biggie!

And to answer your question, yeah it kinda sounds like you have a dead drive. Does samsung have a diagnostics tool you can download and run?
 
I'll give it a whirl tonight and report back.

As for the drive, I'm really hoping it's not dead. I bought it in October and don't think they'll take it back ... fml ...
 
Sweeet! I really appreciate it man. I've had one hell of a time finding a card I can get to work with cheap desktop motherboards and freebsd. Let me know what you find!
 
I booted from the 8.1. mem stick img into FixIt mode. On the load it listed all my drives, including those connected through the Marvel 88SX7042 card. I hope that helps.
 
tacotaco said:
I booted from the 8.1. mem stick img into FixIt mode. On the load it listed all my drives, including those connected through the Marvel 88SX7042 card. I hope that helps.
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Dang how did I miss this reply. Yes it helps, thank you so much!
 
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