[kplonsky]

I am having some trouble getting my motherboard to recognize my 7th hard drive. I have 6 hard drives plugged into the Intel sata controller and then one hard drive plugged into the jmicron controller. I have enabled the controller in bios, along with AHCI for the jmicron controller. The drive shows up as IDE and I think that's the problem.

What I am trying to accomplish: I had 3 hard drives in a spanned volume and I realized that this method isn't recommended because if one drive fails then all the information across the drives is lost. So I bought 3 new WD red drives to create a storage space which I would use to transfer the files that are now on the spanned volume. After the files are transferred I am going to format the drives to add them to the new storage space.

I have pictures of everything in bios; maybe I missed something.

 

[CrazyElf]

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Originally Posted by kplonsky

I am having some trouble getting my motherboard to recognize my 7th hard drive. I have 6 hard drives plugged into the Intel sata controller and then one hard drive plugged into the jmicron controller. I have enabled the controller in bios, along with AHCI for the jmicron controller. The drive shows up as IDE and I think that's the problem.

What I am trying to accomplish: I had 3 hard drives in a spanned volume and I realized that this method isn't recommended because if one drive fails then all the information across the drives is lost. So I bought 3 new WD red drives to create a storage space which I would use to transfer the files that are now on the spanned volume. After the files are transferred I am going to format the drives to add them to the new storage space.

I have pictures of everything in bios; maybe I missed something.

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Apparently the JMIcron controller might not be compatible with RAID:
http://www.overclock.net/t/627207/jmicron-esata-controller-must-be-disabled-for-raid/0_100

Give this a read too:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=313610

It looks like that JMicron controller isn't too great.

It's a similar problem that I have on my PC - the Asmedia controllers are not that great and the Intel PCH controllers are much better.

 

[kplonsky]

Seems like the easiest way would be to buy a pcie sata controller then