I was trying to add a 6TB WD Red Hard Drive as external storage, but my Ubuntu (18.04.4) could not detect this drive when I plugged it in. I have some confusion about the hardware, so that I used Ubuntu live CD installation disk to format this disk. This 6TB disk was connected to SATA0 of the motherboard (coming with HP Compaq 8000 Elite CMT PC desktop).
The problem is the Live CD could not detect the hard drive before I can format it with GParted (2TB HDD was fine without any problem!) with this message:
No disk drive was detected. If you know the name of the driver needed by your disk drive, you can select it from the list.
Driver needed for your disk drive:
continue with no disk drive
login to iSCSI targets
3w-9xxx
3w-sas
3w-xxxx
...
I spent some time searching for a solution, turning out that it seems no discussion exactly matching my case except some information that may be related.
1) Possible BIOS setup for the SATA ports, Tested all the 5 ports with the last one as eSATA. None worked.
2) The SATA emulation mode as "IDE/RIAD/ACHI", and I have tried all of them. None worked with the same message.
3) The connection cable may be wrong but I have tried all the ports, and 2TB HDD was always fine without any itch.
What is this problem, and what's the solution? Thanks a lot!
Edited: Because I could not comment any more, added response to heynnema's question here. I do not know how to enable this specific disk to BIOS, although I enabled the external HD drive from the BIOS pull-down menu. My liveDVD is Ubuntu18.04 and, output of sudo dmidecode -s bios-version : 786G7 v01.02
gparted
, then create ext4 or ntfs partitions.