anibalin Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Here is the situtation guys. I have this N40L with a raid1 with two 500gb drives. Everything is silk smooth. Now I want to add a single 240ssd drive that would host a virtual os blah blah and installed it in the third bay. bay1: 500gb bay2: 500gb bary 3: ssd The thing is that the bios and the raid bios can see the ssd drive as a single drive but windows does not. I entered the raid bios to put <raid ready> on the ssd and started the fast initialization. Booted to windows and diskmgmt does not see the drive. I started the AMD raid utility and I can only see the raid1 configuration. SSD doesnt even appears as a physical drive. I said screw it and installed the ssd on the onboard sata port. Again the raid controller lifts it as port 5 and Windows (server 2012), for some reason, again, does not sees the drive. Been struggling for two days with this. Why the OS / amd raid utility does not see the drive? Have you experienced this before? Im really puzzled as I dont know what to do next. I will flash the nov 2013 bios tomorrow. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Do you know for sure this is a good working drive? Why is this even considered to be gong through the controller? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anibalin Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 The drive it's ok. Is there any port that is not raid controlled? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anibalin Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well I tried with another ssd drive, a 60gb and it worked ok without any modifications on bios /etc. Then I tried a dvd drive and worked ok too. Then I plugged the ssd again, a crucial m500 240gb and didnt work. I tried a m500 120gb and guess... didnt work either. wth? I will get a samsung 240gb tomorrow. crucial m500 are not compatible or something? I even upgraded the firmware on this ssd. So odd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well, SSDs have created other issues for people as well, on a variety of systems. For some reason, it appears manufacturers are sometimes not making their SSDs fully HDD compliant. What I mean is, the SSDs don't completely mimic how an HDD behaves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anibalin Posted March 27, 2014 Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well, SSDs have created other issues for people as well, on a variety of systems. For some reason, it appears manufacturers are sometimes not making their SSDs fully HDD compliant. What I mean is, the SSDs don't completely mimic how an HDD behaves. Will report back tomorrow with Samsung SSD. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ikon Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Great. Look forward to reading about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoneWolf Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I've never had an issue with Crucial's M500 disks. Have you tested it in another system? I currently have two M500 240GB drives in my Gen8. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anibalin Posted March 31, 2014 Author Share Posted March 31, 2014 Worked like a charm with samsung 840 guys. Beware of crucial m500. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangcla Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 I wonder if it's just an incompatibility with the chipset- for example, the new Haswell chipset doesn't play nice with first-generation Sandforce-based drives (Vertex 2, for example) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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