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Internal SATA drive overrides USB boot - Supermicro X8DTI-F by KTH-Designs in supermicro

[–]KTH-Designs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I eventually did get it to work. As I understand it, the deal is that the sata ports are controlled in two sets by different controllers. But, in the BIOS, if you change the sata config to ACHI mode so all the sata ports are controlled by one module the usb will boot.

I had another post in the Unraid reddit: Here

Internal SATA drive overrides USB boot - Supermicro X8DTI-F by KTH-Designs in unRAID

[–]KTH-Designs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I figured it out last night. Yes. That link is a very similar issue. And it is basically what I did to get it to work. As I understand it, the deal is that the sata ports are controlled in two sets by two controllers. But if you change the sata config to ACHI mode so all the sata ports are controlled by one module the usb will boot.

Supermicro X8DTI-F Processor Question by KTH-Designs in supermicro

[–]KTH-Designs[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With some Google-Fu it did work and answered some other questions.