Seagate st2000dl003 HDD, HP Proliant Microserver 40L & FreeNAS 7 UDMA / SATA issue

[maniac618]

Hi everyone,

I have:

HP Proliant Microserver 40L
5x Seagate st2000dl003 HDDs
Freenas 7 (latest stable release 0.7.2)

I have installed 1 of the Seagate st2000dl003 HDDs in the Optical Disk Drive bay.

I updated the HP Proliant Microserver BIOS to allow full speed SATA to the Optical Disk Drive bay via the SATA cable connection on the motherboard.

I installed FreeNAS 7 to run off of a USB stick plugged into the motherboard.

On boot up FreeNAS reports that all drives are MASTER apart from 1 drive which I believe is in the ODD bay which is listed as SLAVE and UDMA 33 as opposed to SATA.

I have tried 3 different SATA cables, all with the same UDMA 33 result posted on screen.

The Seagate st2000dl003 HDD also doesn't appear to have any jumper / physical jumper place on it, so as far as I can tell I can't just add a jumper correctly to make it MASTER.

Any help would be appreciated, I'm new here and completey out of my depth now, I can't think what it is.

Thanks for any help!

 

[maniac618]

Jan 15 19:20:49 nas618 kernel: ad1: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable
Jan 15 19:20:49 nas618 kernel: ad1: 1907729MB <ST2000DL003 9VT166 CC32> at ata0-slave UDMA33
Jan 15 19:20:49 nas618 kernel: ad4: 1907729MB <ST2000DL003 9VT166 CC3C> at ata2-master SATA300
Jan 15 19:20:49 nas618 kernel: ad6: 1907729MB <ST2000DL003 9VT166 CC32> at ata3-master SATA300
Jan 15 19:20:49 nas618 kernel: ad8: 1907729MB <ST2000DL003 9VT166 CC32> at ata4-master SATA300
Jan 15 19:20:49 nas618 kernel: ad10: 1907729MB <ST2000DL003 9VT166 CC32> at ata5-master SATA300

Is it the cable then?

I tried 3 different ones (2 red and 1 blue) from a 5/6 year old Dell. The last cable actually being one that was part of a 2 disk RAID!

Is it really the cable even if it says it is?!

 

[maniac618]

Googled ATA 66 and it is a cable for a Optical Drive, I'm using a Hard Disk Drive there.

So could someone help me get my head around why it would be asking for a ODD cable when there is a HDD there and I supposedly updated the Server's BIOS to allow for a HDD there?

Is it FreeNAS or my BIOS causing this hassle?

 

[maniac618]

It was the IDE not being turned off in the Southbridge config in the BIOS. Problem solved.