July 26, 20232 yr I have just received a LSI HBA card. https://www.ebay.com/itm/195577459212 However, one of the ports broke from the card on first usage ... How can I see if it could actually work. I have plugged it in and connected 2 sata drives. The card: Uploaded diagnostics bovallstation-diagnostics-20230726-1227.zip Edited July 26, 20232 yr by Todilo added card
July 26, 20232 yr Community Expert Solution Get a RMA from vendor and return. (I am surprised you even plugged this into your MB!) Good Luck
July 31, 20232 yr From the diagnostic you provided, lspci registered that the card is recognized and working. 01:00.0 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] Such an HBA, especially 9200, PCIE 2.0 series are over a decade old, it is not a common occurrence but if you have worked with HBAs throughout the years, you will come across a port with loose shield. The simple fix is to re-solder or super glue the shield's pins back in. If the SAS cable connected to the port is solid and no unnecessary or random movements in the system, it can work without the port shield too, that is not really advisable though. I don't know how you managed to break the entire port off, perhaps weak solder on those pins as well, and some unnecessary excessive force from a wrong angle as the picture you shared suggests, not a bad idea to still try to work something out with the seller perhaps.
July 31, 20232 yr Community Expert 6 minutes ago, Saito said: <<< SNIP >>> Such an HBA, especially 9200, PCIE 2.0 series are over a decade old, it is not a common occurrence but.... <<<SNIP>>> But if you read the Ebay description, this card is NEW but an open box item. This card is probably one of the many 'counterfeit' LSI cards being manufactured these days... I haven't done a lot of investigating these days but I suspect that most of the server pull-outs of the original 9200 series LSI cards are gone.
July 31, 20232 yr 9 minutes ago, Frank1940 said: But if you read the Ebay description, this card is NEW but an open box item. This card is probably one of the many 'counterfeit' LSI cards being manufactured these days... I haven't done a lot of investigating these days but I suspect that most of the server pull-outs of the original 9200 series LSI cards are gone. The lack of sheen or gloss on the port shield tells that the HBA is not a recently manufactured one, and the heatsink only having horizontal air-flow channels, unlike the LSI produced one having vertical and horizontal cuts on the heatsink, suggests that it is not an early '10s LSI production. I am aware of the licensed and unlicensed use of LSI trademark and design by different Chinese manufacturers, beside the numerous China-only manufacturers, such as Inspur being the largest one, which usually use their own original PCB design.
July 31, 20232 yr This specific one has been produced by/for Lenovo, as Lenovo 03T6739. https://serverevolution.com/lenovo-03t6739.html
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