Trozmagon Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 (edited) Hi Guys, I'm looking for a little help. I'm running an mITX build without an available PCIe slot and I was running external USB drives but I can't handle the constant bottle necks and randomness I've been getting so I managed to get my hands on a SilverStone TS431S with a mini SAS 8088 connection. This is my first venture into SAS but I'm only running 4*SATA drives in it so at first I thought an SFF-8088 to 4*SATA breakout cable straight to the motherboard would work but when I tried it none of the drives would show up. I then discovered that to run the drives off the motherboards SATA controller I would need a reverse breakout cable, so I went ahead and got one of these MINI SAS 26 Pin SFF-8088 Female to 4*SATA Reverse Cable to connect to the SATA ports on the motherboard and an SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 External Cable but still none of my drives will show up. I was under the impression that the SATA controller would be able to see SATA drives coming from a SAS connection if I was using a reverse cable but I'm just not sure what I'm missing, if I had an available PCIe slot I would just get a SAS controller but unfortunately I can't sacrifice my GPU for one . Any help would be greatly appreciated! Edited April 4, 2021 by Trozmagon Quote Link to comment
Vr2Io Posted April 4, 2021 Share Posted April 4, 2021 (edited) Seems nothing wrong on cable. Whole path was 2m + 0.6m . Pls try shorter total length as you are using SATA not SAS. For add a LSI HBA , you can try adapt it to M.2 slot. Edited April 4, 2021 by Vr2Io Quote Link to comment
Trozmagon Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 22 hours ago, Vr2Io said: Seems nothing wrong on cable. Whole path was 2m + 0.6m . Pls try shorter total length as you are using SATA not SAS. For add a LSI HBA , you can try adapt it to M.2 slot. Ohhh mate you're a life saver, I had another shorter cable and it's working, Thank you so much! Quote Link to comment
sonofdbn Posted December 14, 2021 Share Posted December 14, 2021 @Trozmagon How long was this shorter cable? I assume you mean the SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 external cable? Quote Link to comment
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