February 27, 20251 yr I am running unRAID 6 with 3 HDDs in array and everything was working well. Next, I have purchased a LSI 9217-8i card to be able to plug in 8 HDD drives in the future. I have connected the PCIe card and reconnected my current 3 HDDs from the motherboard SATA connectors to the card via 8087 cable which came with the card. (Cable supports 4 drives, so one is unused) Once I restarted the unRAID, none of the drives are recognized by the unRAID. Then I booted in BIOS and the card is detected. What am I missing? What am I doing wrong? What additional configuration do I need to do? I am very new to this, so please help and be as explicit as possible. Here is the card I bought: LSI 9217-8I 6Gbs SAS PCI-E 3.0 HBA FW: P20 IT Mode For ZFS FreeNAS unRAID+8087-SATA*2 https://a.aliexpress.com/_EG5oUkY My motherboard is GIGABYTE H610M: https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/H610M-H-DDR4-rev-11-13#kf Thank you so much.
March 2, 20251 yr The HBA is being correctly detected and initialized, just not detecting any devices, make sure you are using the correct cables, it must be forward breakout, reverse breakout looks the same, but it won't work, you can also check if the devices are being detected in the LSI BIOS (requires CSM boot)
March 4, 20251 yr Author It was the cable in the end. Also fair to mention, I disabled secure boot in BIOS. I did this prior to reporting the issue here.
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