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@doron I have two white label WD3001FYYG drives. The 1TB Seagate and other WD 3TB drive are SATA and connected directly to my MB to integrated SATA ports. I'm trying to repurpose an old desktop (HP 8200 Elite CMT). I'm thinking the problem might be w/ my PSU, it's an OEM 300w. Going to remove all drives and try just one of the SAS drives and the unraid usb boot. I'm also looking into your link above. Thanks! *edit - I have seen this post before. I'm weary of removing the pin manually, would rather use something like the kapton tape method.. what local stores carry it? Can't find at any HD or Lowes-types places (in stock). In addition, your thread talks about hacking the SATA adapters, but these are SAS. I'm using a forward breakout cable mentioned above. The connector doesn't expose the pins, instead it's all enclosed in plastic. I don't see how I could tape or break/remove pin3 on the cable. I'd have to either do it on the drive itself, or buy an adapter.

New cable arrived. The one linked above. Plugged it in and the drives are still not found. Attached diag file. It seems the SAS controller is recognized. The drives aren't getting any power, they're cold as ice. Since there's no power it's got to be the drives, no? Thoughts? syslog.txt

Although annoying to order a new cable @ that price, I hope it is the cable and not something else. The drives aren't recognized in the bios, so that may very well be the case. Thanks again!

Thanks so much Hoopster. I was able to flash it to FW 20.0.07.0-IT using megarec/sas2flsh method. However, Unraid isn't finding my SAS drives in unassigned devices. I have 2 3TB SAS HDD's. Maybe the cables are bad/unsupported? I'm using these. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B010CMW6S4/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Found another thread on the above talking about issues with these... Attached is my diagnostic file. Do you see anything there I'm missing? I have 3 other SATA drives already connected and setup in the array. An old 3TB for parity, 1TB storage and 250GB for cache. The plan is to use one of the new SAS's as my new parity drive, moving the others to storage and adding to the pool as needed. End game is a simple file server/NextCloud/some remote access/sandbox VM's. For now I just want to get this new array stood up. tower-syslog-20210131-1541.zip Don't know how I can test the cable, and I have to order everything online as there's no local microcenter/parts stores around.

Hey all, first time poster here. I'm building my take on the Snafu and picked up an HBA from Ebay. Was supposed to be the SAS9201-8i, and the order details state as much, but I received a 9220-8i in the mail. Can't find a whole lot of info about the 9220, but seems it's an OEM model. Since the firmware doesn't show up on Broadcom's site, does anyone know if I can use a different firmware? Would the 9201-8i one work? I appreciate any feedback, thanks. Ebay link: https://www.ebay.com/ipp/133501790707?transactionId=1769849938003&_trksid=p2047675.l48352