Thank Andriy, it appears my motherboard had a "IDE/SATA" compatibility mode which was enabled by default and i had no idea what the option meant but once i turned it off everything is showing up as AHCI.
Thanks for your suggestion! Octavian On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 26/01/2017 00:59, Octavian Hornoiu wrote: > > OS: 10.3-RELEASE-p12 > > Motherboard: ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 FM2 AMD A85X (Hudson D4) SATA 6Gb/s > > USB 3.0 HDMI ATX AMD Motherboard > > Memory: 16 GB RAM > > 6 Drives: 6x 1TB WD1001FALS (Caviar BLACK) > > > > I am having a strange issue where I have 6 drives attached to my > > motherboard and 4 of them are coming up as SATA 2.x and the others are > > coming up in a strange downgraded mode. The first 4 disks are always > shown > > as being normal and ada4/5 always have the strange configuration. I know > > the motherboard chipset is good and supports 7 drives of SATA 2/3 in any > > combination so I'm perplexed as to what the issue is. > > > > Why are drives 4 and 5 listed as being on bus ata0 and ata1 instead of > > ahcich4 and 5? > > Check your BIOS settings. Sometimes they have a separate IDE/AHCI knob > for the > last two channels. > > > -- > Andriy Gapon > _______________________________________________ freebsd-geom@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-geom To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-geom-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
