Hello,

I have recently replaced my HBA controller with the Broadcom 9600-24i eHBA controller, you can read about the specifications here: eHBA 9600-24i Tri-Mode Storage Adapter | PCIe Gen 4.0

When I boot into the Asus WRX80 Sage II BIOS I can see the adapter and navigate to the onboard BIOS of the card. I have currently 16 drives attached to two of the three SFF-8654 8i ports populated with the following cables: SFF-8654 8i 74pin to 8 SATA. All of the drives are reporting back as available and healthy in the Broadcom BIOS, they are designated as 'Unconfigured Good'.

I believe that changing the configuration from 'Unconfigured Good' to 'JBOD' would wipe any data on the drives; it suggests this in the Broadcom BIOS and warns you.

When I boot into unRAID none of the drives attached the HBA appears. I am also sure that the new HBA card is not being passed through to the VFIO-PCI, which would be one of the reasons why the HDD's may not appear, see attached file. Interestingly unRAID seems to believe this is a Broadcom RAID controller, so perhaps this card needs to be flashed to IT Mode? I am unsure how to achieve this.....??

I have posted my diagnostic as well for review; I have noted an AER error but am assuming it may have something to do with the new card which could be safely suppressed.....although it seems to point to the root PCI hive.

Can someone please advise how to resolve this issue.

Thanks,

Enver

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Edited July 19, 2025Jul 19 by Enver

The controller is being detected and initialized; probably you need to initialize the disks, but that would suggest it's not operating in true HBA mode, but I'm not familiar with the latest models.

12 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

The controller is being detected and initialized; probably you need to initialize the disks, but that would suggest it's not operating in true HBA mode, but I'm not familiar with the latest models.

Thanks for the prompt reply.....this card is a mystery....there is no such 'feature'! You can see the available operations against a HDD below.

You would likely need to select JBOD, but any data there may be lost. See if there's a setting for setting the controller to IT mode only.

According to @Wody and his post-dated last year IT / IR is no longer an option with the 9400 and later series of cards. I have posted a question to him in his original post, hopefully he can shed some light.