Kodi Can't Find Hard Drives

1st Official Post

    So I've installed LibreELEC on my i5 3570k PC with a GTX 1070 (yes, overkill, but I dual boot to play steam).

    When I load the USB stick to install, it sees all of my internal hard drives (about 9 of them). However, once the OS is installed, it boots and works great (except for MVC 3D), however it can't see any of my internal drives, all of which are SATA. I've tried IDE and ACHI and neither let's Kodi see the drives. Could this be because they are NTFS?

    • Official Post

    NTFS drives should be identified as well, but Linux can be a bit picky. Drives need to be unmounted fully and correctly (also in Windows), otherwise Linux will not mount them. So when you exited a Windows session via a Suspend mode or something else, try to run Windows again, do a diskcheck, clear any errors, and do a full reboot.

    Enable SSH in LibreELEC, and log in externally with root/libreelec . Give us the results from the following commands:

    Code
    blkid | pastebin
mount | pastebin
dmesg | pastebin
    Quote from Klojum


    NTFS drives should be identified as well, but Linux can be a bit picky. Drives need to be unmounted fully and correctly (also in Windows), otherwise Linux will not mount them. So when you exited a Windows session via a Suspend mode or something else, try to run Windows again, do a diskcheck, clear any errors, and do a full reboot.

    Enable SSH in LibreELEC, and log in externally with root/libreelec . Give us the results from the following commands:

    Code
    blkid | pastebin
mount | pastebin
dmesg | pastebin

    Three out of nine drives had errors which were fixed. Trying a complete shut down now, but not holding my breath. Will report back once I can get another machine and figure out how to ssh in.

    Oddly USB drives show up fine. I fear it might be incompatibility with my SATA hardware.
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    Fixing errors and reboot did nothing. Will keep you posted.
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    For anyone else having this issue, he was partially right. You can't just shut down, but in windows 8 or 10 have to tell it to disable fast start in control panel under power options

    Edited once, last by chaosngn (October 12, 2016 at 5:42 AM).

    • Official Post

    I still wouldn't mind seeing the results of the 3 commands via SSH. :D

    For details or tutorials on SSH, see Accessing LibreELEC - LibreELEC
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    Also, if you have a smartphone, you can use that too for SSH-ing into your machine with a proper SSH tool.
    For another Windows machine, download the latest Putty.exe tool.
    In Linux such as Ubuntu, just use a terminal session and go "ssh root@ip-of-gtx1070-machine".

    I will try to get that for you.

    The problem I now have is that it will see sata drives hooked up to the motherboard and USB, but not the four drives hooked up via SATA to a pci-e SATA card. Is this normal or a driver issue?

    Edited once, last by chaosngn (October 16, 2016 at 11:19 PM).