June 23, 20224 yr Hi all, I've bought a LSI SAS2008 HBA card (9211-8i), but in Unraid Device Settings I can only see the LSI Raid Adapter, not the connected devices. I want to pass-through a DVD drive to a VM, which wasn't possible using the mainboards SATA port, as my drive array is running on that and I coldn't manage to split the IOMMU group to only pass-through the SATA port connected to the DVD drive. I've checked the installed firmware/bios with sas2flash, FW is 20.00.07.00 and NVDATA version is 14.01.00.08. Reflashing IT fw didn't change anything. CSM support is enabled in BIOS, but LSI Bios is not shown (so no Ctrl-C possible to check if "IT" or "IR"). What am I missing? Please see screenshot ot SAS adapter info. Cheers!
June 23, 20224 yr Not sure an LSI will detect optical drives, did you test with a disk? If yes first suspect would be the cables, they might be reverse breakout instead of forward breakout, also posting the diagnostics will help confirm the HBA is being initialized properly.
June 23, 20224 yr Author Thank you JorgeB for your comment! I'll try if a normal HDD works asap. But anyhow, somehow it must be possible to passthrough an optical disc to a VM in Unraid, right? As none of the PCIe ACS Override helped me separate the mainboard SATA ports being used by my array from the one I originally had my DVD drive connected to, should I move my array to the LSI (if disks are recognized) and move the optical drive to the mainboard SATA ports instead? Would non-LSI HBAs work with optical drives, as you said "not sure if an LSI would detect optical drives? Here are my diagnostics: where would you see if the HBA is being initialized properly? nexus-diagnostics-20220623-2218.zip Cheers!
June 24, 20224 yr HBA is being detected and initialized correctly, main suspect would be the cables, do you know the exact cables you're using?
June 26, 20224 yr Author Sorry for late reply, couldn't get back on it earlier! I'm using the two split cables that came with the LSI card from China, they are unlabeled. I plugged it into a HDD today, HDD appears in Unraid Devices, but optical drive doesn't. On 6/23/2022 at 10:31 PM, Vr2Io said: LSI HBA support optical drive, passthrogh also fine. @Vr2Io You seem to have positive experience passing through optical drives with LSI HBA. Any idea why it's not working for me? The cables seem to be ok. Cheers all!
June 26, 20224 yr 2 minutes ago, chrismuc said: I plugged it into a HDD today, HDD appears in Unraid Devices, Then the cables are good, I never used optical drives with an LSI, don't know if they work, though according to Vr2lo they should.
June 26, 20224 yr 1 hour ago, chrismuc said: I plugged it into a HDD today, HDD appears in Unraid Devices, but optical drive doesn't. LSI just detect the Bluray, no matter disc insert or not. 02:00.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] [1000:0072] (rev 03) Subsystem: Fujitsu Technology Solutions HBA Ctrl SAS 6G 0/1 [D2607] [1734:1177] Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas Kernel modules: mpt3sas 01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller [0107]: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] [1000:0072] (rev 03) Subsystem: Dell 6Gbps SAS HBA Adapter [1028:1f1c] Kernel driver in use: mpt3sas Kernel modules: mpt3sas I suggest you try flash the HBA to official BIOS & Firmware, but may be no different. Edited June 26, 20224 yr by Vr2Io
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