Hello,

I just bought a used LSI card. The seller told me it was already in IT Mode. After I installed the card and connected one drive for a test, the disk is not detected in Unraid.

Card is detected in lspci:

01:00.0 SCSI storage controller: Broadcom / LSI SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 03)

 

System logs show errors

Dec  7 16:48:17 Blackgate kernel: pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 9: failed to assign [mem size 0x00400000 64bit]
Dec  7 16:48:17 Blackgate kernel: pci 0000:01:00.0: BAR 7: failed to assign [mem size 0x00040000 64bit]

 

Result from dmesg | grep -i "mpt2sas”:

[    8.745005] mpt2sas_cm0: 64 BIT PCI BUS DMA ADDRESSING SUPPORTED, total mem (14231952 kB)
[    8.799304] mpt2sas_cm0: CurrentHostPageSize is 0: Setting default host page size to 4k
[    8.799444] mpt2sas_cm0: MSI-X vectors supported: 1
[    8.799630] mpt2sas_cm0:  0 1 1
[    8.799864] mpt2sas_cm0: High IOPs queues : disabled
[    8.799958] mpt2sas0-msix0: PCI-MSI-X enabled: IRQ 71
[    8.800053] mpt2sas_cm0: iomem(0x00000000d04c0000), mapped(0x000000006ee01c7c), size(16384)
[    8.800175] mpt2sas_cm0: ioport(0x000000000000f000), size(256)
[    8.855228] mpt2sas_cm0: CurrentHostPageSize is 0: Setting default host page size to 4k
[    8.855359] mpt2sas_cm0: sending message unit reset !!
[    8.856969] mpt2sas_cm0: message unit reset: SUCCESS
[    8.884801] mpt2sas_cm0: scatter gather: sge_in_main_msg(1), sge_per_chain(9), sge_per_io(128), chains_per_io(15)
[    8.884998] mpt2sas_cm0: request pool(0x000000001a1f40c2) - dma(0x105200000): depth(3492), frame_size(128), pool_size(436 kB)
[    8.908230] mpt2sas_cm0: sense pool(0x0000000059ded5cf) - dma(0x104980000): depth(3367), element_size(96), pool_size (315 kB)
[    8.908473] mpt2sas_cm0: reply pool(0x00000000d9c91169) - dma(0x104a00000): depth(3556), frame_size(128), pool_size(444 kB)
[    8.908643] mpt2sas_cm0: config page(0x00000000e487029e) - dma(0x10494c000): size(512)
[    8.908769] mpt2sas_cm0: Allocated physical memory: size(7579 kB)
[    8.908886] mpt2sas_cm0: Current Controller Queue Depth(3364),Max Controller Queue Depth(3432)
[    8.909022] mpt2sas_cm0: Scatter Gather Elements per IO(128)
[    8.953880] mpt2sas_cm0: overriding NVDATA EEDPTagMode setting
[    8.954505] mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x03), BiosVersion(07.39.02.00)
[    8.954657] mpt2sas_cm0: Protocol=(Initiator,Target), Capabilities=(TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ)
[    8.958003] mpt2sas_cm0: sending port enable !!
[   11.575095] mpt2sas_cm0: hba_port entry: 000000004d728939, port: 255 is added to hba_port list
[   11.578036] mpt2sas_cm0: host_add: handle(0x0001), sas_addr(0x5003005702278430), phys(8)
[   16.703249] mpt2sas_cm0: port enable: SUCCESS

 

What else can I try to get the drives detected?

 

Thanks for help

blackgate-diagnostics-20241207-1720.zip

The HBA appears to be working correctly, make sure you are using the correct cables, you need forward breakout, reverse breakout look the same but won't work, also confirm the disks are spinning up, in case it's the 3.3v issue.

I checked everything once more, and it turns out I didn’t connect the power to the cables from the HBA... 🥲 (it has cables with two SATA connectors and one power connector)

 

Thanks!