LSI HBA 9211-8i: connected devices not shown despite IT mode


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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!

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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!

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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.

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I plugged it into a HDD today, HDD appears in Unraid Devices, but optical drive doesn't.1016527022_Screenshot2022-06-26142641.thumb.jpg.e5d3ba772087646c99307b56ac87c6d1.jpg

 

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!

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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.

 

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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.

 

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