Bos98

Any news on this front?

No worries. I have been doing extensive research and testing, and I think this is the best I can do sticking with the Netapp or the Seagate EXOS. Seems most people are able to get this config to work with other sata disks and no interposers. If anyone out there has a netapp and seagate exos x16 16TB disks working in it without interposers installed, I’d love to hear from you.

As I mentioned, I have already tried kapton tape over the 3.3v pins. Still won’t power on in the netapp.

Without them the drives don’t power up at all in the Netapp.

I have a LSI 9300-16i connected to an Adaptec AEC-82885T 36-Port SAS-3 12Gbps Expander internally via a SFF-8643 to SFF-8643 cable, and the Netapp connected to the the Adaptec card externally via single SFF-8644 to SFF-8644 cable. All is well and the netapp shows up in Unraid. Now for the interesting things. Directly connected to the Netapp, none of the Seagate EXOS X16 16TB disks will spin up. I tried Kapton tape on the 3.3v pin on the disks and still nothing. I have a bunch of SAS to SATA interposers, with 2 different model numbers. The different models when attached to the SATA disks and plugged in to the Netapp allow the Seagate disks to Spin Up and be detected. The interposers ending in part number 02D do not pass temp data. The interposers ending in 04B do send the temp data. I have 9 disks now connected to the 04B interposers, and ran a preclear on them with pre and post check. All was well and pretty fast considering disk size. The new disks have been added to my array and are working, but fix common problems tells me that write cache is disabled on the drives connected via interposers. I stopped the array, and as a test put on of the drives without an interposer in to a USB enclosure and looking at its disk log, write caching is enabled. It seems that the SAS to SATA interposer is killing the ability to use write caching, but removing the interposers prevents disk from spinning up at all. I tried the standard commands to try and enable the write caching when the drives are connected to the interposers, but that fails. Any thoughts? Should I just live with this and be happy or am I taking a significant performance hit here? Thanks!

my Aorus Master Z590 has a IT8695 which is also not supported

Hello. I have a new building on a Aorus Master Z590 and I would like to get fan speed sensors working. I know the board has a ITE IT8695 SuperIO chip but sensors-detect does not find a driver for it. I have set ACPI to LAX in my syslinux config and it did not help. Any help would be appreciated.

This was the eBay listing I purchased from. https://www.ebay.com/itm/324852659270 It may have just been a fluke, but I will see if I can check the S/N on the card I got before I ship out the return.

Just to chime in, I just experienced a similar issue. I Purchased a 9305-16i from an Ebay seller to replace my 9201-16i. While it did give me a 41.5 MB/sec speed bump on my spinners and would have shaved close to 7 hours off my parity check it would cause my system to hard lock. I went back to the 9201-16i and issue is gone. Luckily the eBay seller takes returns. I guess I will live with a parity check read speed of 188.5 MB/sec even though I now know the drives can hit 230 MB/sec if the card was stable. I had even put a Noctua Fan on the heatsink of the 9305!