No Hard drive found on install

[Monst3rs]

Hi all, I've been having some trouble with my server lately.

I got a second hand server a while back and when I got it, I installed Proxmox without and issue. Fast forward a few months and I moved places, it seems that one of the hard drives wasn't being picked up anymore, Since I had nothing of real value, I just reinstalled proxmox having this time i've been hit with a load of issues.

I believe them stem from my RAID controller. Currently I have 2 SSD's in RAID-1 and 8 HDD in a raid 10. on fresh initialization, proxmox wont detect the virtual disks. On boot I see 2 Virtual disks handled by BIOS so they are being picked up by the BIOS.

I started doing research and found it could be my SATA settings? I have 4 choises: IDE, RAID (intel), RAID (something else) and AHCI. I assumed I would need RAID as I have a RAID controller but I tried AHCI one time it worked, however on boot I was having issues.


My question is, Does anyone here use a physical RAID controller and can advise if there is anything crucial i should be doing before installing proxmox? I'm a bit lost on what to do next as It ether installs and then wont find pve, or wont find the drives when starting the installation.

 

[Nuke Bloodaxe]

Given you had an issue after a physical move, have you tried reseating the RAID card itself? [If the move was violent enough to kill a drive, it'd be violent enough to displace other components. Reseating the RAM might be a good idea too.]

 

[Monst3rs]

All the drives show online in the raid configuration utlity and I can see all the memory being picked up.

If I reset all the settings to default what are the steps I should do..?

Set the BIOS SATA setting to RAID (intel)
In the RAID controller configuration utility set up my VD's (such as RAID 1 on all drives)

Is there anything else I'm missing? how would you guys set it up?

 

[Nuke Bloodaxe]

Can you tell us more about this system? One moment it seems to be a physical RAID controller [a physically separate card) and in the next reply, it seems to be a software RAID controller (Onboard motherboard unit.)

The term reseating means to physically take the component out, and then put it back in, to reseat; this addresses any carbon buildup on the pins, and in the case of movement, ensures there is proper contact between the pins and the receiving socket.