Connectiong Drives to SFF PC Via LSI 9206-16e Card - Drives unseen

[Tuntira]

HI All!

I recently decided to upgrade from a USB based NAS to a HBA NAS (if you can call it that)

My build is as follows:

• PC = Lenovo M90s - i7 10th gen
• HBA = LSI 9206-16e Card
• Cables = SFF8644 to 4x SATA
• HDDs = 1x 1tb + 1x 4tb (only using for testing for now)

 

When looks in the MAIN tab on UNraid, I cannot see either of those drives in the drop downs. I can feel that the HDDs are working as they are spinning up. I was wondering what I did wrong for them not to show.

Any help would be appreciated!

 

[Kilrah]

Your card must be flashed with the IT firmware.

[Tuntira]

SO I got my card from ebay (Ad: https://www.ebay.com/itm/394354192990)  as you can see it says, IT mode, which leads me to ASSUME that it has been flashed already. Is there anyway to confirm this?

[JonathanM]

43 minutes ago, Tuntira said:

Is there anyway to confirm this?

diagnostics should show which driver is being loaded.

[Tuntira]

databunker972-diagnostics-20240614-2158.zip

 

Above is the diagnostic file, any thoughts?

[JorgeB]

LSI is in IT mode, and the controller is getting correctly detected and initialized, if the disks are spinning up, the most likely culprit will be the cables, using reverse instead of forward breakout, next suspect would be the controller itself, it can be bad, but this is much less likely.

[Tuntira]

Thanks for the feedback, can you elaborate on reverse instead of forward breakout?

[JonathanM]

 

[Tuntira]

Thanks for the link!

I noticed that in one of the replies on the post @JorgeB mentioned that the max length from controller to SATA devices is 1m, I purchased 2m cables (https://www.ebay.com/itm/404899847766?var=674932978994)

It looks like that could be the problem.

As a matter of interest, why would they sell 2m cables if only 1m cable work?

Edited June 15 by Tuntira

[JorgeB]

2m will work with SAS devices.