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Gigabyte needs to fix firmware for HDD behaviour - may be the main problem

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computermensch:
Ok, thanks for reading and confirming youe have HDD's that work. I also considered lack of testing that on Gigabytes part very unlikely.
This will make me try out the RAID1+0 setup instead.

It seems to be a problem with lack of implementation of GPT when the underlying storage is Storage Spaces (but remember UEFI are for Windows clients). So need to be fixed now - made public that UEFI active with GPT on Storage Spaces will make the firmware block on boot/resume from sleep.

I have completed more of the test now with decoupling the HDD's from the GA-X99-UD4. Worked instantly.

The disks does not have an operating system on them but are GPT partitions. Are yours GPT partitions on every disk?

The GUID for the partitions are basic disk (GPT) according to EFI spec, however the underlying storage is Windows Storage Spaces (the new windows storage concept also coming from the server side). GPT disk are self contained - however it's not the Windows Boot Manager. It's more likely the firmware in the board does not know how to inspect a GPT partition across 4 disks - thus the software in the mobo is blocking. I.e. boot and resume.

Again UEFI is for PC - i.e. except for Linux that would normally mean Windows. Dynamic disks with MBR partitions in Windows are getting phased out - and replaced by Storage Spaces and GPT. However, this firmware does not know how to properly start a GPT partition implying Storage Spaces with data.

I will set the disk up as RAID1+0 instead. But I think the answer is still lack of support in the GA-X99-UDx's for GPT partitions in Windows.

dmdilks:
I have GPT drives running om my computer.

computermensch:
Me too now ... I hope  :), But not on Storage Spaces ... (even though it should have worked)


... about to create them GPT's on a RAID10 (RAID1+0) instead of Storage Spaces because the mobo can not read the GPT there ... hm, I am not sure though who is responsible for the boot loader because the Windows Boot Manager may be writing stuff to the NVRAM of UEFI. Lot's to ... well, complex.

computermensch:
Using UEFI+GPT for data + Storage Spaces/SWRAID? May answer boot/resume problems
http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,15245.0.html

To everybody else reading this read ... can see there has been a number.

It is not a HDD problem - but a storage layer problem with the mobo, UEFI, GPT. If you're using a basic disk (GPT) on software RAID or Storage Space in Windows 8 ... the first UEFI operating system of Windows client ...

... go check this thread I've posted since: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,15245.0.html ...

ex58:
Seems that Admin must open one sticky thread under your name..... ::)

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