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4200 - One drive "ignored"
We have a second-hand 4200 V1 that I've just filled with 2TB disks that are on the HCL. Turning on the unit, all the drives have the red led glowing, and then after that goes out, and each drive spin...
Just following up: This is definitely a sign that the Motherboard has failed.
There *are* two more SATA ports available on the board, so if anyone else has this problem and is thinking of going that route, I was able to move the cable from SAS6 to one of the open SATA ports and the drive spun up and drive lights were active, etc - but I guess Frontview is coded to work with the drives configured in a certain way, because that drive was completely omitted from the list on the status page.
Also, just to follow up on my musings about replacing the MoBo on your own:
Besides having a custom BIOS, the board is a special version presumably made just for the 4200V1, that doesn't appear to be available to anyone else, so even if you really got crafty and copied the BIOS to put in a replacement board- you probably won't be able to find the same board anywhere, period.
There *are* two more SATA ports available on the board, so if anyone else has this problem and is thinking of going that route, I was able to move the cable from SAS6 to one of the open SATA ports and the drive spun up and drive lights were active, etc - but I guess Frontview is coded to work with the drives configured in a certain way, because that drive was completely omitted from the list on the status page.
Also, just to follow up on my musings about replacing the MoBo on your own:
Besides having a custom BIOS, the board is a special version presumably made just for the 4200V1, that doesn't appear to be available to anyone else, so even if you really got crafty and copied the BIOS to put in a replacement board- you probably won't be able to find the same board anywhere, period.
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