I'm having a weird issue with my older Intel Z77 based MSI Z77A-G43 motherboard. For the past 3 years I've been using it as a file server with SnapRAID + StableBit DrivePool and I had the OS on a RAID 1 mirror SSD plugged into SATA 0/1 which are the 6gbps SATA ports (utilizing the onboard Intel RAID). My data drives (WD Red) were plugged into the 3gpbs SATA ports 2-6. Everything was hunky dory and performance was sufficient for my needs.
I recently decided I wanted to add more data drives I had kicking around, so what I did was install a PCIe M2 adapter card and an NVMe WD Blue SSD. I installed the OS on this and am using the Clover Bootloader to get it to boot since the BIOS doesn't support booting off NVMe devices. This is working fine.
The issue came when I hooked up the "new" data drives to SATA 0/1. I switched the SATA mode in BIOS from RAID to AHCI before I installed the OS on the new SSD. I started getting all these strange timeouts and errors, but just on the drives connected to the SATA 0/1 ports. At first I thought it was the drives although I was suspicious that I would have two defective drives at the same time. I did some more troubleshooting, including taking those drives out and testing them in another system (they are fine) and installing a known good working drive and had the same issues.
Just wondering why I would be having these issues when I was using these ports for years with the boot drive in RAID mode without any issue. The only thing I haven't tried is switching the SATA mode in BIOS back to RAID to see if that helps but I can't see why it would.
Any ideas?
I recently decided I wanted to add more data drives I had kicking around, so what I did was install a PCIe M2 adapter card and an NVMe WD Blue SSD. I installed the OS on this and am using the Clover Bootloader to get it to boot since the BIOS doesn't support booting off NVMe devices. This is working fine.
The issue came when I hooked up the "new" data drives to SATA 0/1. I switched the SATA mode in BIOS from RAID to AHCI before I installed the OS on the new SSD. I started getting all these strange timeouts and errors, but just on the drives connected to the SATA 0/1 ports. At first I thought it was the drives although I was suspicious that I would have two defective drives at the same time. I did some more troubleshooting, including taking those drives out and testing them in another system (they are fine) and installing a known good working drive and had the same issues.
Just wondering why I would be having these issues when I was using these ports for years with the boot drive in RAID mode without any issue. The only thing I haven't tried is switching the SATA mode in BIOS back to RAID to see if that helps but I can't see why it would.
Any ideas?