Hi all, thanks for the suggestions. The reason I didn't load Unraid to try yet was I am yet to purchase the drives I'm going to put on the server. But I managed to find a spare 2.5" 60gig drive lying around so I connected it to the raid controller and loaded up Unraid. The drive was detected. Here is the extract from "system devices" page
[8086:244e] 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5)
[8086:3b14] 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 3420 Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
[8086:3b22] 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
[8086:3b30] 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
[111d:806f] 01:00.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT HIO524G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch (rev 02)
[111d:806f] 02:02.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT HIO524G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch (rev 02)
[111d:806f] 02:03.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT HIO524G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch (rev 02)
[111d:806f] 02:04.0 PCI bridge: Microsemi / PMC / IDT HIO524G2 PCI Express Gen2 Switch (rev 02)
[1000:0073] 04:00.0 RAID bus controller: Broadcom / LSI MegaRAID SAS 2008 [Falcon] (rev 03)
[8086:10d3] 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
I have onboard sata controller as well. Mine doesn't show mpt3sas for the raid controller but the I guess if the drive is recognised then I don't need to bother with flashing IT firmware. This is the raid controller splash screen on boot.
Do you recommend that I go into bios and turn off jbod? If my controller doesn't have a bios then maybe I need to load a dos based tool or something and turn off jbod mode from command line? I'm not too fussed about jbod mode as it is essentially no raid isn't it? I just want Unraid to see disks that are connected to the raid controller.