August 17, 2025Aug 17 soooo i used this card until about 3 years ago with 8 sata drives, worked fine. switched to a proliant and bought 5 hgst 10tb drives for it. now im going back to commercial hardware so i grabbed the lsi 2308 out of my pc stuff boxes and bought https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CNPQTCS7 to connect the drives, no love. in system devices i can see the hba and if i connect sata drives with the old sata cables they show up in unraid. so im questioning if such an old card can recognize these newer drives. the it firmware is the latest version from 2017.yes i connected power to the plug but im reading sometimes sas drives need 3.3 instead of the 5? how would i know if thats the case and if so whats the easiest way to accomplish this?if it is a compatibility issue i was looking at some 9300 cards that would get me sas3 speeds out of my drives, anyone have experience with them? Edited August 17, 2025Aug 17 by wyleekiot
August 17, 2025Aug 17 Author update for anyone who has this problem... it was the 3.3v power save issue. taped over the first 3 pins on power connector (closest to center) and all drives fired right up.
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