n8lbv
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I have a simple test Freenas box that oddly will not boot when I hook up the 4th SATA drive to the motherboard.
Please see attached photo:
The OS is installed on a good USB thumb drive (no problems here).
Everything works great and no problems until I try to hook up the 4th SATA drive to the motherboard.
At boot time BTX Loader shows 5 drives (probably includes the USB stick) as seen in the photo and then just freezes and hangs forever (waited over an hour to make sure it was frozen.
I think I have tried ALL the obvious things to try before posting this.
BIOS sees all 4 SATA drives fine.
I have set BIOS to only boot from USB.
Tried different drives, during this process also made sure they were truly blank/wiped not bootable etc. Makes no difference.
I can remove ANY of the drives (leaving 3 drives) and it boots up fine.
I doesn't matter what ports have a drive on them or what is on the drive or what drives are connected (tried different drives).
ANY 3 drives on any of the 4 ports WORKS.
ANY 4 drives (all ports populated) does not work. *tried different drives* tried blank drives and non-blank drives*
Verified it's NOT the power or SATA cables.
Box Particulars:
Dell Optiplex 390 *Latest Motherboard Firmware installed.
Service TAG: 8TX38V1
CPU Gen2 i5
RAM 16GB DDR3
Using built on motherboard Intel SATA ports
FreeNAS-11.2-U5
Installed/Configured for BIOS boot NOT UEFI
Please see attached photo:
The OS is installed on a good USB thumb drive (no problems here).
Everything works great and no problems until I try to hook up the 4th SATA drive to the motherboard.
At boot time BTX Loader shows 5 drives (probably includes the USB stick) as seen in the photo and then just freezes and hangs forever (waited over an hour to make sure it was frozen.
I think I have tried ALL the obvious things to try before posting this.
BIOS sees all 4 SATA drives fine.
I have set BIOS to only boot from USB.
Tried different drives, during this process also made sure they were truly blank/wiped not bootable etc. Makes no difference.
I can remove ANY of the drives (leaving 3 drives) and it boots up fine.
I doesn't matter what ports have a drive on them or what is on the drive or what drives are connected (tried different drives).
ANY 3 drives on any of the 4 ports WORKS.
ANY 4 drives (all ports populated) does not work. *tried different drives* tried blank drives and non-blank drives*
Verified it's NOT the power or SATA cables.
Box Particulars:
Dell Optiplex 390 *Latest Motherboard Firmware installed.
Service TAG: 8TX38V1
CPU Gen2 i5
RAM 16GB DDR3
Using built on motherboard Intel SATA ports
FreeNAS-11.2-U5
Installed/Configured for BIOS boot NOT UEFI