I recently installed Unraid 7 and also installed an "9211-8i 6G HBA LSI FW:P20 IT Mode" I bought off ebay from a seller with lots of good reviews.   I've tried running it with a single new seagate drive and saw there has been resent issues with seagate drives and these types of cards in another post.  So I shutdown and restarted with 3 known working drives (two western digital and one seagate) that were on sata and the new drive.   None of the drives show up.  I see this in my log and lspci.txt files from my diagnostics:

 

Jan 19 15:45:34 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: LSISAS2008: FWVersion(20.00.07.00), ChipRevision(0x03)
Jan 19 15:45:34 Tower kernel: mpt2sas_cm0: Protocol=(Initiator,Target), Capabilities=(TLR,EEDP,Snapshot Buffer,Diag Trace Buffer,Task Set Full,NCQ)

 

04:00.0 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
 

 

attached are diagnostics.  Any help would be appreciated.  Could it possibly not be in IT mode?

 

Thanks, 

 

tower-diagnostics-20250119-1549.zip

The firmware isn't the issue, it is the latest version and in IT mode (Initiator, Target). You don't mention how the drives are connected. If they are connected with a SAS to SATA breakout connector (1 plug in the card, 4 plugs for sata drives) you may accidentally have purchased a reverse breakout cable instead of a forward one, which would mean the drives can't communicate (see here for an explanation). If it is a SAS breakout cable with a wide connector, you might have forgotten the power-cables. And if they are connected with SATA powercables, it may be a 3.3v issue, try a molex-to-sata adapter.

Edited January 20, 20251 yr by Wody

Thanks for the reply. 

 

It is a SAS to SATA breakout cable. They came with the card.  I'll swap it with the other that came with the card. I'll try the molex to SATA adapter later today.