Linux – Debian USB install cannot find hard drives

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I'm attempting to install Debian wheezy onto a new server box I just built, however the auto-detection for the platter drives and SSDs (using SATA 6gbps) does not seem to pull up anything. In fact, the only storage that the detection can find is the USB stick that I'm attempting to install with in the first place. I'm using UNetbootin to put files onto the drive.

Some basic info:

Hardware:

  • 2x Samsung 840 EVO 120GB (Part#: MZ-7TE120BW)
  • 4x Seagate Barracuda 3TB (Part#: ST3000DM001)

/dev contains:

  • sda
  • sda1 -> thumb drive

Hand-typed output of df -h is:

ID  ->  Size  ->  Mount point
------------------------------
none -> 790.0M -> /run
devtmpfs -> 3.9G -> /dev
/dev/sda1 -> 7.3G -> /cdrom

And the contents of fstab:

none    /dev/pts    devpts  defaults    0   0
none    /run    tmpfs   nosuid.size=10%,mode=755    0   0
none    /proc   proc    defaults    0   0
none    /sys    sysfs   noauto  0   0

Here is a dmesg of the system, with an additional flash drive attached to save the output.

LSPCI output:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell DRAM Controller (rev 06)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Haswell PCI Express x16 Controller (rev 06)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 8cb1
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Device 8cba
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I217-V
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 8cad
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Device 8ca0
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 8c90 (rev d0)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 8c96 (rev d0)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Device 8c98 (rev d0)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Device 8ca6
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 8cc4
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Device 8ca2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a2)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 08b1 (rev 73)

Any possible insight or attempted IT here would be greatly appreciated, I'm a bit lost at this point on how to get all the storage detected.

Best Answer

Enable the Hardware RAID and it may also enable the SATA controller.

Some motherboards have the 2 interlinked so disabling one will also disable the other.

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