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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 4:05 pm 
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Hello!

Happy user of NasLite 2 for many years not having the need to upgrade...

Now I had one of the disk going down and I bought the latest WD Green 3TB drive!

The problem is that NasLite does not recognize the drive :(

I wonder what can be the problem? Today I use 4 WD Green 1.5TB sata drives (well 3 as one is broken)

Do I need to upgrade NasLite or is it a motherboard problem? Any advice where to first look?

My NasLite 2 verson is 2.11 02 - 2009 (release 2.4.37)
Motherboard is ASUS P5QL-EM

Thanks


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:21 pm 
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dont know is the answer but see if a linux distro sees the drive - if it does then that would show its not the motherboard


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 5:35 pm 
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Well was hoping for an easier answer!

If... I will have a try
What is the recommended distro? I have not used any of this before!

Any links?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:21 pm 
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I did went to ASUS website for the motherboard.

Spec as follow

Storage Southbridge
6 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports
Ext PATA and SATA controller
1 xUltraDMA 133/100/66 for up to 2 PATA devices
1 xExternal SATA 3.0 Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
LAN PCIe Gigabit controller featuring AI NET2

Can this be the problem? It is an 2009 motherboard, even if it says 3 Gb/s should it not run with 6 Gb/s?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:24 pm 
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I bought this drive (2 of them) to change in the NL box

Western Digital Caviar® Green 3TB SATA 6Gb/s, (SATA 3.0), RPM = IntelliPower, 64MB, 3.5"

Out of luck!? :roll:


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:46 pm 
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I see no issues with the drive.

Mike


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 6:53 pm 
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So this would be a motherboard problem!?


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PostPosted: Thu Jul 12, 2012 8:38 pm 
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The drives are advanced format and might require that you jumper them or set them with a utility to support older SATA standards. Not having dealt with any advanced format drives I can't speak from direct experience. I simple search of the WD web site should yield the correct answer and lead you on the path to storage nirvana.

Mike


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 4:56 am 
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For information about WD SATA 6 Gb/s drives.
I will get back with a report when done...

Affected Chipsets:

Intel® 5 and 3400 Series Chipsets
Intel® NM10 Chipsets
Intel® ICH10, ICH9, ICH8, ICH7 Families
Problem:
These chipsets may not be able to complete SATA Out Of Band (OOB) Signaling with SATA 6.0 Gb/s devices and "down shift" to SATA 3.0 Gb/s speeds.

Implication:
These chipsets may not detect SATA 6.0 Gb/s devices when powering up or when resuming from S3 (Commonly referred to as Standby, Sleep, or Suspend to RAM), S4 (Hibernation or Suspend to Disk), or S5 (Soft Off- This is the result of shutting down the computer in many operating systems) states.

Known Symptoms and Rate of Occurance:
Possible failure conditions are:

The system may boot to a black screen with no prompt or other way to interact with the system.
Durring the BIOS boot sequence an error stating a bootable device has not been detected may occur.
A blue screen may occur during a resumption from a S3/S4 power saving state.
The drive may not be detected by the systems BIOS.
The drive may not be detected by the Operating System (OS) .
In many cases, rebooting the system will resolve these conditions. The frequency of occurrence is very low and is undeterminable due to its dependency on the unique combination of chipset, platform, and SATA 6.0 Gb/s device.

Solution:
There are several possible solutions to this issue:

Use the WDspeed utility to set the drive to 3.0Gb/s. Please Contact Us to get a copy of WDspeed.
Install a jumper on pins 5 & 6. This will limit the negotiation speed to 3.0 Gb/s.
Install a third-party add-on card that is not using any of the affected Intel® chipsets listed above. At this time, WD is actively working on enhancements to the speed negotiation protocol to allow the use of 6.0 Gb/s WD hard drives to operate with the above Intel® Chipsets.


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 13, 2012 12:31 pm 
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And i'm done here. Sorry for the wrong lead but it sounds like you have it sorted.

Good luck,

Mike


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 1:09 pm 
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Update!

I finally got it to work with the drives!

I put the jumper on the harddrive and updated NasLite 2 with 64bit, after rebooting it worked! the drives showed up!

Then I did format and mounted them with no problems.

I was curious and removed the jumpers just to se what will happen!

No problems anymore!

It seems to be the older version of NasLite that did not work with the new SATA 6Gb/s drives (WD at least)

Happy camper again :)


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