Moved working drives from old hardware to new hardware now not recognized

TrueNAS General
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Had a working Truenas Core 13.3 server on old (10yr) hardware and decided to upgrade to new hardware. The SSD boot drive was recognized in bios but would not boot. The motherboard is an MSI B360. I reinstalled Core 13.3 to the SSD and it boots fine, however the old drives I had in a 4 bay hot swap drive cage are not recognized in the bios, tried taking them out of the cage and connected them directly to the data power and ports but no luck. I then took a new 8TB drive iand put it into the drive enclosure and sure enough the bios sees it!

Why the old drives do not show up is driving me crazy. I’ve tried switching cables with known working ones etc. The drives are not that old as I’ve been replacing them as errors occur, they are less than 2 years old and were working fine before in the old hardware.

Any Ideas?

Thanks,
Jerry

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Do they still work in the old hardware? No chance you had any hardware raid? Any chance you had encryption and… I don’t know - I think even if the partition table was encrypted the drives should still be recognized, but uhh… any chance you just need to grab the keys from old boot drive?

Does BIOS see the drives?

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No the BIOS doesn’t see the old drives only the new ones. I had planned on replacing the old drives with the new ones once I had the old pool imported on the new hardware.

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Weird - what kind of drives are these? Wondering if in the past you remembered to disable the 3.3v pin & in the move that got accidentally undone? That’s getting to the limits of my imagination though…

Any more details you can prove about hold and new hardware, drive model, if it work son old motherboard, etc. could be of use though!

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They are Seagate Ironwolf NAS drives, 4TB. Gathering motherboard etc. details will post shortly. Meanwhile rebuilding old hardware to see if the drives will work there.

Not sure I ever disabling any 3.3 pins on previous or current motherboard.

Thanks!

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Those drives don’t use the 3.3V rail.

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What kind of hot swap cage do you have theres more than just a few out there.

Are your drives SAS or SATA?
Also how is it physically wired eg…SATA/SAS (8087…etc)
What kind of HBA do you have if you aren’t using onboard SATA?