Not detecting drives on LAS card

[davidst95]

Hi, I recently purchased a "9207-8i PCIE3.0 6Gbps HBA LSI FW:P20 IT Mode ZFS FreeNAS unRAID 2* SFF-8087 US" card to use with Unraid.   After installing the card I added one 8TB Red Pro drive to with the breakout sata cables.   I'm not seeing the card POST when turning on my server or see the 8TB drive in the BIOS or in Unraid.    Is there anything I'm missing?   Thanks in advance for any help

 

I do see the card in "System Devices"

 

Serial Attached SCSI controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2308 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 (rev 05)

 

I also have two 1 tb nvme drives that are on the motherboard.  

 

David

 

 

 

tower-diagnostics-20220819-0057.zip

Edited August 19, 2022 by davidst95

[JorgeB]

LSI is being correctly detected an initialized, though it needs a firmware update, make sure you're using the correct cables, your need forward breakout cables, reverse breakout look the same but won't work.

[davidst95]

I think I found the issue.

 

The Intel® 500 series chipset does not support UEFI VBIOS graphic card, hence the integrated graphics mode does not support legacy boot and CSM option becomes non-configurable.   Dos the BIOS card have to be in legacy mode?   The issue is I'm using an ITX board so the only pcie slot is either a discrete graphics card or the LSI card.

 

David

Edited August 19, 2022 by davidst95

[JorgeB]

You only need CSM boot to see/get to the LSI BIOS, it won't change anything regarding the disks not being detected. 

[davidst95]

Ok, do you know what I need to do to get Unraid to detect the drives or it will not be possible? Thanks again for help. 

 

David 

[Squid]

Are you using forward or reverse breakout cables?  You need forward.  If you bought reverse, they will not work at all

[Frank1940]

@davidst95, this is a link to a forward breakout cable:

 

      https://www.amazon.com/AdcAudx-Internal-Forward-Breakout-Controller/dp/B09NBBDW2M/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1IZFAQD84T8GK&keywords=forward+breakout+cables&qid=1661037370&sprefix=forward+breakout+cables%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-5

 

(The reverse breakout cable looks identical-- the wiring is connected to different pins on the connectors.)

[davidst95]

57 minutes ago, Frank1940 said:

@davidst95, this is a link to a forward breakout cable:

 

      https://www.amazon.com/AdcAudx-Internal-Forward-Breakout-Controller/dp/B09NBBDW2M/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1IZFAQD84T8GK&keywords=forward+breakout+cables&qid=1661037370&sprefix=forward+breakout+cables%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-5

 

(The reverse breakout cable looks identical-- the wiring is connected to different pins on the connectors.)

 

I was able to test the card on a X570 motherboard and modify the CMS settings in the BIOS.   I was able to see the card POST and the hdd drives being detected.   I ordered the cables from the link you sent me and hopefully that will help.   Thanks again!

 

David

[JorgeB]

11 hours ago, davidst95 said:

I was able to see the card POST and the hdd drives being detected.

If the drives are being detected by the LSI BIOS it's not the cables and they should also be detected by Unraid.

[davidst95]

On 8/20/2022 at 7:21 PM, Frank1940 said:

@davidst95, this is a link to a forward breakout cable:

 

      https://www.amazon.com/AdcAudx-Internal-Forward-Breakout-Controller/dp/B09NBBDW2M/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1IZFAQD84T8GK&keywords=forward+breakout+cables&qid=1661037370&sprefix=forward+breakout+cables%2Caps%2C78&sr=8-5

 

(The reverse breakout cable looks identical-- the wiring is connected to different pins on the connectors.)

 

It turned out to be the cables.   Thanks for the link and suggestion!