BIOS shows two HDD under one SATA

[Khimari]

Hi guys,

two days ago strange noise came off pc case, sounded like 3 long speaker beeps, but lower frequency, each took around 2,5 second. Nothing happened when suddenly one of HDD went silent in afternoon, gone. After reboot, it was, however, back. This HDD is connected to SATA 1.

I noticed that my BIOS for GB-H87-D3H shows my two HDD only under one SATA row, SATA 1 like this:

If physically SATA 1 HDD connected and SATA 2 HDD connected, SATA 1 shows ID of HDD connected to SATA 2.

If SATA 2 physically unpluged, BIOS shows ID of HDD physically connected to SATA 1, correctly.

SATA 2, however, always shows "empty".

If cables changed, the ID of HDD is just swapped. But still, everything works in windows. I did BIOS update some time ago cuz of new cpu and also fixed cable management. Could I have screwed something on MOBO by accident? By fingers let's say.

Does someone have such experience? I noticed this because few days ago the HDD physically connected to SATA 1 just went silent in windows (after 2,5 years). After re-boot it was back. And I was curious what happened. I digged in and found this. Never seen this before.

Boot order shows all HDD and SSD, no problem, windows storage management shows all OK, SMART shows all ok no sector relink, no HW conflicts, boot up takes it's usuall 14 seconds, no reading or write errors (must run deep complete scan), I was able to migrate data off SATA 1 HDD and fill it with useless junk, no problem, yet I feel something is not ok. SATA slot on MOBO can't be bypassed by other right? Like one failed, let's use second one to share, but it looks like that. Anyway I moved my data and made backups just for sure.

What could this be? Seems a bit like mess. Dunno what I can expect, HDD failure probably, can the MOBO be failing too?

Thanks for tips.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there, Khimari.

This is a bit weird indeed. Try resetting your BIOS to see if that fixes things up. Perhaps afterwards everything will be reported properly. Other than that you could test the hard drives for errors and bad sectors to see if everything is OK. Try using different cables not just swapping the same ones, just to make sure that it's not cable related issue.

BTW good job on backing up your data!

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[Khimari]

I consider this state some sort of BIOS error. I did all possible checks these lasts days and everything runs without errors. I don't feel to go for bios downgrade tho. Everything works OK, HDD in SATA 2 works, can I/O with no problem, screw it. If it works, let it be.

I found out that if I disable SATA 1, like set it to disabled in BIOS, SATA 2 does not work eighter, even when still enabled, it means HDD on SATA 2 is not found in Windows and not seen in BIOS boot order. But if I keep SATA 1 enabled and just unplug the cable off SATA 1, SATA 2 works and it's HDD is shown in SATA 1 row in BIOS in SATA peripherals.

This is a mess.

I think this is my fault, seems like I did something to the device itself, when rigging the stuff, my hands were sweating a bit, maybe I touched something and screwed it. Sadly I don't know if this error was there when I flashed the new BIOS from F4 to F10 because I just didn't check... *sight*

Well, nevermind, as long as it works and reads / writes data, all fine, I'm still going to prepare a new build anyway so pfff... whatever. Just wanted to share the experience, maybe someone has an idea what that could be.

I will try different cable as I have no spare atm, once I get a hand on one, I'll try it, good tip, thank you.

Cheers.